The weekend turned out to be more of a laid back lazy weekend with me cleaning out the garage and doing some odd and end things around the house. So not a lot happened around the farm this weekend. However, Monday night I started in making some changes! I have really been struggling with my green house keeping it at a steady temp, not drying out the soil, and keeping all the plants that have germinated alive while waiting for the other seeds to germinate. So Monday night I made the decision to pull all the plants out of the green house, by Monday I would say 85%-90% of the seeds had germinated by that time, and my tomato plants were starting to look a little droopy from being in the green house. I set up a table in the sun room, broke down the green house and use some of the pieces to run my lights and placed all the trays under them! So far it is really working out well. I only have 2 tomato, 1 green pepper, and 1 serrano pepper plants that have not germinated as of yet. So far I have had a really good germination rate. When my tomato plants were in the green house I had moved them to the second shelf to get them away from the heat, but it reduced the amount of light they received. When I pulled them out the leaves are a little yellow and a little droopy, at this point there could be 2 scenarios that could be happening 1. they weren't getting enough light on the second shelf, 2. I am over watering them. Given my history with plants I'm going to guess I am over watering them, so moving forward I am going to back off of the water a bit!
The flowers are not doing the best, the Bachelor Buttons are for some reason almost pulling themselves out of the soil. I'm not sure how to explain it, but that's the best way I can describe it. Isla's sweet peas, the moon flowers, and the impatiens are all doing fairly decent right now.
Out in the garden we had exciting news! we had our very first potato sprout!!! So mark it down it took exactly 21 days for a sprout to emerge. I'm going top let some more come up first before I put another layer of compost down and another 2x4 row. I went ahead and snapped a picture of the onions because I think they look really good and I wanted to share!
(Potato Sprout)
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