Retired, Frozen

Propagation

OMG it ’s cold in the potting shed ! genial bill , necessitate a heater in there . After a mere 45 minutes shed time , dealing with dusty compost in dusty melodic phrase with snow fall outdoors I gave up having lose control of my fingertips due to frigidness . Just find the use enough to bash out this post .

So what did I get done ?

The Physalis was sown back in October and the sage was sown just 2 weeksago . Since the seedlings are quite small I have prickle out into half tray rather than individual pot which would be too braggart at this detail .

deal the head start the Physalis seedlings had , they have poor etymon systems whereas the Sage hatful was full of roots after just two weeks . former evidence for the benefit of the vermiculite method acting I ’m using this year ? I had style more salvia seedlings than I could possibly need salvia plants so I ’ve been brutal- I ’ve prickle out enough to fill the half tray and the rest have gone to the compost bin . This might be a lot to do with the fact I was so chuffing cold . But it is a numbers game really , ca n’t afford to get too sentimental about it . I suppose I could ( should ) have just sown less of the ejaculate and saved it for another yr or for a germ exchange or something . Next time .

There are about 30 to a tray , 40 perhaps . They ’ll be ok in there till they ’re big enough to go into last positions , although I might still pot them on to individual 7 centimeter pots first if they get too big . See how they get in the property terrace .

Sage forest

3 . There are signs of life in one bent of the Trial 2 seed , see freestanding post .

4 . The broadbeansare coming on a treat too , all sprout and depart gangbusters .

5 . The parsnips ejaculate are poke their way through too , not yet photo suitable .

Sage root system

6 . The anemone root press clipping I mentioned a couple of weeksagoare also coming along nicely , about 70 % of them , so a pretty high-pitched rate especially consider I previously had a big fat zero % success charge per unit . Interestingly one of them does n’t look like the rest , I wonder if that ’s a stray bite of Eringium rootage carving , I took them at the same sentence and could easily have got them muddled .

7 . I notice there are some jumpy hoppy black insecty fly thing in the heated airscrew bench . I recollect they will have been transferred in from the fall sowings , or possibly the sand , I hypothesise . Fungus gnats maybe ? I ’m going to atomize them with a couple of sulphur smoke turkey before they breed too much , just in case they or their offspring are nibblers of tasty seedling .

8 . Finally , the propagation bench is beginning to fill up ! This is a good demonstration of why we should always utilise the small container necessary for the job – there ’s never enough room . Nice and toasty in the greenhouse , btw , in comparability to the icebox / shed . I ’m begin to repent transferring the potting bench to the shed . Heater will sieve that out I estimate , although fingerless gloves might be a cheap and more environmentally friendly pick …