An indoor garden?

kerismummy · Posted: Mon Jun 02, 2008 7:19 pm Post subject:

The swede seeds have started sprouting already Smile

kerismummy · Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2008 8:51 am Post subject:

woohoo, our swede sprouts have little flowers on!! OK, i wont report every day on what the seeds are looking like, but considering the weather here is pants, my indoor veggies are doing great
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guido · Site Admin Joined: Oct 18, 2004 Posts: 390 Location: Italy

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So Paula, the next step will be growing chickens in the Kitchen?
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kerismummy · Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2008 2:54 pm Post subject:

Nah, too messy when I try to pluck them! Smile

Plus couldnt be doing with the morning wake up call from the rooster!! Very Happy

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Kate · Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2008 6:30 pm Post subject:

I've never grown rutabagas but flowers? Normally that comes at the end. I'll have to look on Wiki.
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kerismummy · Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2008 8:38 pm Post subject:

that's what time I have to get up any way Sad

can't be doing with much earlier!!

I think i'm getting a bit worried about our swede/rutabaga, it looks like all the seeds have taken and i have loads of little green sprouts all over the trough!!

Kate - I didn't mean actual flowers, sorry, they have little green leaf thingys, i just called them flowers because I couldnt think of the word!
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Kate · Posted: Thu Jun 05, 2008 5:29 am Post subject:

Ok lol, had me worried there. I call them sprouts. You will need to thin the rutabagas out. I always hate doing that. But it's a must so that each remaining plant has enough room to grow. Do this in stages, pulling the weaker looking one's each time.
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kerismummy · Posted: Thu Jun 05, 2008 8:37 am Post subject:

I need help with our carrots and strawberries, they're not sprouting!! Everything else has loads of sprouts but those 2 things. What am I doing wrong / not doing???

I'll wait until the swedes grow a little more before I start pulling them, if I have no luck with the carrots, I can transfer some of the swede over to the carrot trough so I don't lose any.
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Kate · Posted: Thu Jun 05, 2008 7:59 pm Post subject:

You planted strawberries from seed? Here we buy shoots that each strawberry plant puts off, that shoot roots and creates new plants while the parent dies at summers end. And that brings up room, if your seeds survive, your going to have shoots over the sides of your container and no where for them to grow. Your whole flat could end up covered in planters! I would scrap the berries. Carrots can take longer to sprout, but they need to be planted very shallow. I have some growing in the pot with my tomato's. Check the soil temperature with an instant read thermometer. If it's too warm that could be the problem. Root vegetables rarely do well with transplanting. They need steady growth and the disruption in that cycle will most likely kill them. Give the carrots and strawberries some time or try salad greens.
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