Sleevendog - seeds - thanks

5 years ago

last modified: 5 years ago

I came home tired from sanding utensils to a box of treats! A variety of beans and seeds. Riogrande beans, microgreens and micro tomatoes. Thank you very much! I will sift through them more care later - first some gardening before more much needed rain. Excited to try micro tomatoes this winter!

It must be my week for seed gifts. A friend gifted me a half a pound of purple coneflower. For nongardeners - that is a whole lot of coneflowers.

Photo of overgrown chard microgreens potted up. I planted three windowboxes as well. One went off to my mom. They produce enough to add to a good handful of baby leaves to meals pretty much daily.

PS the story of the pot -

Last summer for the birthdays of my sister, mom and lastly mine I commissioned two gifts for each of us. At that moment my sister and I were experimenting with macrame. So I had these pots and some wrought iron hooks made by friends.

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sleevendog (5a NY 6aNYC NL CA)

5 years ago

That's lovely. Does not surprize me a cat would not like it. You need to tell them it is not for them, 😜.

I've been taking micos and planting small edge clumps when the weather warms up every Spring. Basils, cilantro, chards, kales, radishes....my kitchen deck is loaded with edible pots. Doesn't look like much until i grab 2-3 outer leaves from a dozen plants. Quick salad.

I like to start a 1/2 cup winter/spring wheat in 2 cups of water. Bring to a simmer and add a 'soaked overnight' bean. (1/4 to a half cup dry). Nice way to taste the different beans. Weat grains stay nice and chewy and stay firm.

Micro tomatoes are such a nice winter house plant. I have a couple dozen on the deck i started in Febuary. I think i sent the carrot leaf and the fuzzy angora leaf. The fuzzy, PicoloGato, aka LittleKitty is stable. The carrot leaf, not yet named, is not stable yet. But is producing larger tomatoes than usual in a micro. (top left in pic) I have about 5 stable varieties that top out at under 10inches.

Nice thing about being part of a breeding project is what you get is unknown in the early grow-outs. I have a new one i've named Shmoo. Hoping to carry that forward. I just lost a 1010 tray to aphids a few weeks ago so need to start another this week. When all goes well they are so easy to care for being such tiny plants.