Sunday, April 10, 2011
Saturday, April 2, 2011
Classes completed
I'm finished with my Texas master gardener classes, reading, and tests. I took was a seven week condensed evening course and I'm now spending my spare time working on the volunteer component of the program and tending to my own garden. I've reconsidered a full garden of only tomatoes. I'm adding some green beans and squash and a bell pepper (in the nightshade family so not helping my rotation). I'll upload some pictures soon. I just wanted to check in after a long absense.
Monday, January 24, 2011
1st Week of Class
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
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
Sunday, January 16, 2011
More Transfers
Moved another Big Rainbow, San Marzano, and Tiny Tim to cell packs.
Did not find a UV lamp today.
Did not find a UV lamp today.
Saturday, January 15, 2011
First Transfers
Naked seeds sown indoors last week were moved to cell packs and put under a UV lamp today. Transfers included (1) Big Rainbow, (2) Mortgage Lifter, (1) Cherokee Purple, (3) San Marzano Plum, and (1) Tiny Tim. I'm going to shop for a bigger UV lamp tomorrow. I once had a UV desk lamp that would've been perfect because it had a long arm but I thought the base was too big and bulky so I donated the lamp to Goodwill. That lamp would've been a good thing to hoard. Instead I kept bank statements from 1997.
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