This is my favorite view this time of year...
The grass is greening...the stevia is waking up...and we've got our lights
and new plant babies growing, growing, growing!
As you can see, we keep our lights VERY close to the seedlings.
DO THIS! So often, I see seedlings about 4-6 inches away. The trick, of course,
is to have your lights "easily adjustable" - we've done that by using hooks and chains
to hang them and then it takes about 2 seconds to lower or raise the lights.
Here we have mixed greens, broccoli and cabbages, and even spinach.
It says to plant spinach outside - but in our climate, I never get good spinach.
This way, I don't risk damaging or traumatizing the seedlings when I replant them, and I hope we'll have decent spinach - it's an experiment!
Which, of course, is how one finds the tricks of any trade.
Chard! Yeah! And, can you believe the color they have,
even at this young age? Of course we have Kale which wintered over, but the Chard always gets killed off in the Winter freezes.
Meanwhile, our garden is already filling up without our help because of all the plants that have naturalized over the last 6 years. Next blog entry will discuss this...and we might have to turn the manure and discover just how many worms you can find in a bucket of "nature's fertilizer."
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