Mahli’s Musing

After some strenuous 2 hour work yesterday preparing a selfwatering box, transplanting 22 bok choy and 14 tomato seedlings, I have given now each seedling enough room to grow. Hopefully they’ll enjoy it and grow quickly. The plastic cups are ideal to grow the tomato seedlings because they’re tall and a bit narrow, meaning that [...]

The main big news for this week is the arrival of the tomato seeds from lilatomate. Instead of just the 5 seed packs I ordered, I received 8 packs! As if it wasn’t enough of a surprise to receive the seeds on Thursday, just 5 days after I sent the order per post on Saturday. [...]

So so so, let’s see, what’s up this week. The tomato seeds I planted last week have germinated quite nicely. 23 seeds out of 29 came up, way better than expected, because the seeds are already 1 year old. Now I’ll have to thin them up to just 4 seedlings… Actually I planned to get [...]

Hey all, it’s been two weeks since the last garden update. I’m really happy to announce that in the end I get 90% germination rate for the Yellow Wonder alpine strawberry. I didn’t do any cold stratification as suggested here, nor did I soak the seeds before hand. The NuMex Twilight chillis didn’t do as [...]