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| Two heating pads and one grow light should be all I need this year |
This year I managed to carve a small seed starting space down in my basement so I can try growing things from seed. I may have gone a little nutty buying seeds from catalogs this year.
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| A small sampling of my seed obsession |
I may have also been buying seed packets at nurseries too. I am interested in getting more specific vegetable varieties and seeds are really the best option. I want to try some new to me plants that I've never seen as transplants. I also want to better fill my garden beds with flowers and seeds are much cheaper for getting a lot of plants at once.
So far I have three different plants started, the three that need the longest lead up time before the last frost. Edible Hibiscus, Devil's Trumpet, and Ground Cherries. I am surprised the Hibiscus has been the fastest to germinate, there is little information on starting these from seed.
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| Hibiscus babies! |
The ground Cherry has been taking it's sweet sweet time, I've been
worried that these seeds wouldn't germinate. The Devil's Trumpet has yet
to have a single seedling and any info I have found about starting
these from seed has varied wildly. I'm going to give those a few more
days and if nothing pops up, I'm tossing them and starting over. I don't want to waste resources on blank soil.
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| The blank spot where the Devil's Trumpet should be |
