I completed my first week of the Texas Master Gardener class. The first week included almost seven hours of lectures covering an introduction to the MG program and Plant Growth and Development. There was also an excellent presentation on citrus and fruit trees plus some home reading on these topics. The first week was great and found it to be informative and interesting.
Next week's topics include Earth-kind landscaping and more on citrus and fruits. I've already got a jump on this week's reading and I have finished the chapter on Earth-kind landscaping and I hope to finish the chapter on citrus and fruit trees tomorrow night.
To update you on this year's tomato plants started from seeds I had a 54% success rate. I have about 9 seedlings of each variety with the exception to the Virginia Sweet which yielded nothing. I think I'm going to try to seed a few more as back ups as I'll be giving some plants away and I usually manage to kill a few before March.
The vegetable and herbs aren't doing so well. These seeds were probably a couple of years old and had not been stored in a cool and constant temperature. I didn't expect much from the herb and veggie batch. The thyme and the squash seeds did grow but everything else was a dud. I'll start a new set of herbs and veggies with new seed packets. I may experiement with the seeds packed in clay just to check them out.
Still have not found a flourescent lamp. I didn't put much effort in to searching for one this week with class and everything.
sg
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