Transplanting your seedlings should wait until they have at least 2 sets of true leaves. At LEAST. If they already have them, it won't hurt to wait a bit. Just to make sure you are ready for this step, you will need one container for each seedling you have. I use 'party' cups with holes drilled in the bottoms, but there is no rule as long as there are holes to let the excess water run out and the water you are providing a way in. The other thing you will definitely need is some soil-less mix. Optionally, plastic bins to hold your containers.
Next time we will transplant our seedlings.
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
Change in the Weather
Hi everyone! It's been a typical New England April....not enough sunshine to charge a flashlight battery, nowhere near enough to make my mood come up above water.
It's been just a same old, same old situation. Come home from work and hit the recliner and take a nap. Well of course this is a short week with Good Friday day after tomorrow. So, when I got home today, in that bleary cloudy day mood...and the sun came out, lo and behold I hit the back yard with rake in hand instead of the chair!
I actually tired myself out 2 or 3 times and had to sit on one of the rocks in the backyard to rest up.
Speaking of rocks, my daughter called on Sunday past to tell me that she and my grandson were coming to visit. "Good for me", I thought. Hmm....let me tell you a bit about Anthony (we call him Antman). He is just 5 and 1/2....with a vocabulary that would make an 8th grader hide his head in shame. Anyway, as per usual, he said "Grandpa, can we go for a walk?" I said "Sure, where are we going today?" Expecting to hear 'The Grand Canyon" (which for some reason, to him, is a large ELEVATED rock and not a canyon at all), I was surprised when he suggested something different. In case you didn't pick up on this elsewhere, Kat and I live in a condo. In typical New England fashion, whenever you dig in the dirt here, you end up with a boulder every twenty-'leven feet. So, when they built the place, it was easier to just use the boulders as decorations than to actually take them somewhere else. Given that information, you can well imagine that each building group is kind of ANNOUNCED by a dratted BIG rock! Anyway, we walked a new way (to him anyway) and he saw this BIG boulder and just got all excited! He had to climb it, of course. This one was so big and tall that I had to help him by providing a foothold. When he got to the top and I joined him, I noticed that one of the birdhouses that our maintenance guys made was hanging in a big oak just next to us. "Antman, look..see there is a sparrow sitting right in front of that birdhouse. Let's see if he goes in. He immediately started to 'shush' me everytime I tried to say something. In a minute daddy bird flew off....but I kept looking and pointed out that mommy bird was INSIDE the house looking out. In a minute, mommy bird flew off too and as nothing else happened in a minute, his attention was drawn elsewhere. There was a natural cup shape in the rock and it was full of water. In this tiny pool floated an acorn cap. The breeze was blowing it back and forth. As I am wont to do, I use the situation to try to make him think. I asked him if we had a piece of metal shaped like the acorn cap, whether it would float or not. He wasn't at all sure, so I suggested we go back home and do an experiment. This we did and we floated lots of different things until it was time for him to go home with mom.
Well, my little buddy will be here a lot this weekend. Jenn (His mom) is my 'volunteer' to help me make the pierogi this year. Good Friday and making pierogi was a tradition with MY mom and me until she passed on. Now the kids help and it takes ALL day. Saturday, all the kids and Ant will be here to dye eggs. (And make a mess...we NEVER get through the process without at least ONE of the dye cups being spilled!)
Sunday of course is Easter and I 'll be cooking as usual. Monday I will go back to work to get a REST!
Happy Easter to all! May the Lord's blessing shine on you! Don't eat too......LITTLE!
It's been just a same old, same old situation. Come home from work and hit the recliner and take a nap. Well of course this is a short week with Good Friday day after tomorrow. So, when I got home today, in that bleary cloudy day mood...and the sun came out, lo and behold I hit the back yard with rake in hand instead of the chair!
I actually tired myself out 2 or 3 times and had to sit on one of the rocks in the backyard to rest up.
Speaking of rocks, my daughter called on Sunday past to tell me that she and my grandson were coming to visit. "Good for me", I thought. Hmm....let me tell you a bit about Anthony (we call him Antman). He is just 5 and 1/2....with a vocabulary that would make an 8th grader hide his head in shame. Anyway, as per usual, he said "Grandpa, can we go for a walk?" I said "Sure, where are we going today?" Expecting to hear 'The Grand Canyon" (which for some reason, to him, is a large ELEVATED rock and not a canyon at all), I was surprised when he suggested something different. In case you didn't pick up on this elsewhere, Kat and I live in a condo. In typical New England fashion, whenever you dig in the dirt here, you end up with a boulder every twenty-'leven feet. So, when they built the place, it was easier to just use the boulders as decorations than to actually take them somewhere else. Given that information, you can well imagine that each building group is kind of ANNOUNCED by a dratted BIG rock! Anyway, we walked a new way (to him anyway) and he saw this BIG boulder and just got all excited! He had to climb it, of course. This one was so big and tall that I had to help him by providing a foothold. When he got to the top and I joined him, I noticed that one of the birdhouses that our maintenance guys made was hanging in a big oak just next to us. "Antman, look..see there is a sparrow sitting right in front of that birdhouse. Let's see if he goes in. He immediately started to 'shush' me everytime I tried to say something. In a minute daddy bird flew off....but I kept looking and pointed out that mommy bird was INSIDE the house looking out. In a minute, mommy bird flew off too and as nothing else happened in a minute, his attention was drawn elsewhere. There was a natural cup shape in the rock and it was full of water. In this tiny pool floated an acorn cap. The breeze was blowing it back and forth. As I am wont to do, I use the situation to try to make him think. I asked him if we had a piece of metal shaped like the acorn cap, whether it would float or not. He wasn't at all sure, so I suggested we go back home and do an experiment. This we did and we floated lots of different things until it was time for him to go home with mom.
Well, my little buddy will be here a lot this weekend. Jenn (His mom) is my 'volunteer' to help me make the pierogi this year. Good Friday and making pierogi was a tradition with MY mom and me until she passed on. Now the kids help and it takes ALL day. Saturday, all the kids and Ant will be here to dye eggs. (And make a mess...we NEVER get through the process without at least ONE of the dye cups being spilled!)
Sunday of course is Easter and I 'll be cooking as usual. Monday I will go back to work to get a REST!
Happy Easter to all! May the Lord's blessing shine on you! Don't eat too......LITTLE!
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