02/07/2025
HELLO!!!
Organization day for seeds. Broke down and bought "photo organizers" for my flower/vegetable seed collection. $12 at Micheal's delivered to my door, quite the steal! So I bought 3! Pluse sticker labels.....woohoo!
Also had to scratch a growing itch so I started a few Orange Hat micro tomato plants (for the patio and greenstalk planters) and some onions to test germination rates on old onion seeds and some homegrown saved seeds from 2024 (homegrown seeds for the win, great germination rate!!) I saved some onions that went to seed last year (since onions are finicky lil farts) I utilized the onion going to seed as an opportunity to save seeds (either yellow onion or walla walla sweet) it'll be a surprise but either way.....we got onions.
On another onion note, onion seeds do not keep for years, intact they are about the only seed that will not keep for at least a few years. So if your onion seeds are from say 2022 like a bunch of mine were....toss them. Don't waste your time!
Greenhouse is to be finished soon!! So we can get our grow on cause the growing time in coming soon!
Lettuce, peas and brassicas (brussel sprouts, cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower) will be getting started next with another round of onions i just got in the mail (zebrune shallots and utah sweet Spanish onion) Right after that my hot and sweet peppers (they take a long time to get going) and following peppers is the tomatoes....which we are dialing back on this year. I take up so much space with tomatoes plants every year....that's ending this year.
Happy growing!
