Posted on 02/07/2014 12:31:57 PM PST by greeneyes
CONGRATULATIONS AFRAID FOR THE REPUBLIC 55 YEARS OF MARRIED BLISS
I've never had a problem with molds/etc...
/johnny
They were low to the ground, I looked at a weed and pulled up the cilantro. It was a 'duh' moment.
/johnny
Marcella, thank you for the tips. I have been prepping/gardening since 1982 (the first time I read the Book of Revelation), but it never occurred to me that I might be confined to making sprouts.
That sesame plant grew to at least five feet tall - lovely plant and white flowers but the seed pods only grew to less than one inch long and didn’t develop any more than that. That plant was in a large, maybe 5 gallon pretty container, so it had plenty of space to grow, and the plant didn’t do its job. Pretty plant won’t get it in my garden, it has to be able to be eaten (except the two remaining rose bushes and each of those rose blooms have a large Vit. C rose hip).
Another type plant will be in that large container this spring.
Thank you! I have plenty of mason jars.
“I use home-made whenever possible. ;)”
I wouldn’t use homemade for a sprouter and I wouldn’t sprout just any old seed unless you want to be poisoned.
Look, I researched sprouting seeds to death, even have books, and read everything on the web about them, and grew them for a while to make sure I had that process down, so don’t question my method on this. Well, you can question but I won’t pay any attention to what you say on this one. :o)
Were you sprouting in glass or plastic?
“but it never occurred to me that I might be confined to making sprouts.”
Revelation - exactly. Since I wasn’t a gardener, sprouts would be my fresh food so I really did study that and do it. It’s the only crop you can plant and eat in 3-4-5 days depending on the sprout. Those sprouts and a few bottles of different kinds of salad dressing can give you a different flavor of sprout and different flavor of dressing. You can eat them plain, of course, but I prefer a bit of dressing.
You might see if hubby will build on of these. They are very simple to make.
http://lumberjocks.com/projects/53429
Sprouting trays give you an easy way to sprout different kinds at the same time in a small amount of space as they stack. After sprouting, put the trays in the fridge (if you still have power), and they stay in order, easy to remove the amount you want. Jars are not that versatile. It’s according to your choice of how you want to eat/use them and the amount you grow at one time.
Right now it is just me...so a pint jar of sprouts might be big enough :o))
or a jelly jar
I have a friend who reads very well, also exceptionally bright, his mother can read but his father could not read, although brilliant, and two brothers and a sister cannot read and never will. The father's brother cannot read, father's sister cannot read, and I followed the family tree to see which of those non-reading brother/sister's of the dad couldn't read and which could. That is when I found the research of gene 6 that can have a faulty part and that means that kid isn't going to ever read no matter how smart the kid is.
I haven't finished looking at gene 6 to find out exactly how it gets transferred from the one carrying it, what part of gene 6 is screwed, and the mixture of the other parent's gene combined with that. It has to be a dominant gene instead of recessive or the kids would most probably be half can read and half can't, but it appears to afflict nearly every child. In this test case, three kids had it and only one didn't. I studied heredity in college just because I wanted that course so I'm not starting from scratch with this.
Now I know what happens when you fertilize carrots with Thalidomide.
Plastic. I had about 15 2ftX4ft trays going at a time.
I will say, I live in a more humid climate than Johnny or Marcella, so molds might be more prevelant here than they are for them.
/johnny
/johnny
Nice! Now all you need is green onions, some garlic, a piece of ginger, fish sauce, a tbsp of salt, and chili base for a nice jar of kimchee!
Those look fantastic. I hope my napa cabbage looks even half as good as yours when it "cabbages", and I will think I have succeeded. Also, of all my daikon radishes, only one survived..I'm not sure what happened with the other ones. They just disappeared.
To the rest of you: I'm bound to have some type of cucumbers because I have so many kinds to try to grow. I still don't know what to use on them to keep bugs/insects/creepy crawly things off of them even though they will be in containers. Maybe I can keep all the cucumber contains on the deck instead of sitting on top of the ground, however, from the way some of you talk (especially greeneyes), I think I'm sunk unless I know what to use on them BEFORE the infestation starts. WHAT IS SAFE TO PUT ON CUCUMBER PLANTS AND THEN THE CUCUMBERS WHEN THEY BEGIN TO GROW. I WANT TO STOP THE INFESTATION BEFORE IT STARTS, IF THAT IS POSSIBLE??
I have two spray bottles of Neem Oil if you think that might work without killing the plants?? I will get whatever spray or dust or whatever works but is still organic - I don't want chemical crap on the plants/veggie.
By the way, I pulled all the baby carrots up from the container and those I can grow, they are fine. I pulled all the turnip greens and the greens are fine but the turnips were small, undersized, and not worth the work and time to protect them in this cold weather, so no more turnips in containers. Will grow baby carrots and no turnips from now on.
Now, could someone put me on the trail of something to protect the cucumbers from being murdered?
“contains” should be “containers”. Tried to fix that and hit the post button instead.
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