Plants: Day 7

Tomatoes!!

Well, not much action for the whole week in terms of growing and such.  We watered twice a day (after Thamara's suggestion that we were not watering enough), and kept them under the top light on the timer all day.

Fiber Pellets!

Let's see how the store bought product does...

So, Day 7 has rolled around and it is time to plant once again.  We are now 8 weeks out from our anticipated outdoor planting date, and it's time for the tomatoes to be planted!!  Now, I'm not much of a whole-tomato fan, but I love the tomato products: sauce, ketchup, you name it!  Which means that even I am excited about the tomato planting.  This week, since we are rookies and trying to experiment a little, we are using a different product than our toilet rolls.  We bought seed-starting pellets.  These are non-peat pellets that you use to get your seeds growing (as an aside: apparently, the method of harvesting peat is terribly destructive on the environment, so you should get away from using that if you have the choice.  Coconut coir is the same type of product, and is considering a renewable resource.).  We put water into the tray, let the pellets expand, and then put seeds into the little holes for the seeds.  Oh, and we labeled the rows so that we know which plants are which, because we have some fun plans for cherry tomatoes!

The little pellet tray also had a cover for it, which we learned helps to hold in the moisture and is good for little seeds to get started, so we then put a plastic cover over our other tray of eggplants and peppers.  Now we wait and see what we get.....

Put the seeds in!

Mini-greenhouse!