This year is off to a good start, because it started with the best Korean New Year’s soup I have made yet. But more importantly, I think I am finally on schedule with my seed starters, for once. I’ve divided the seeds into groups, and right now falls on an in-between down time, so I’m anxiously waiting, checking on the seedlings every few minutes, and obsessively examining the vermicompost bin to make sure there is no vemi-massacre happening.
The first to be planted were Artichokes from Baker’s Creek, verbena hoary vervain from Botanical Interests, and just as an experiment, pomegranate from my friend Melissa’s garden in Northern California.
Planted January 4, 2011
Verbena went inside a mug with a lid, because it needs darkness to germinate. As for the others, they had a brief moment of solitude on the window sill. Soon, more seedlings arrived.
This photo is from February 16th in the kitchen sink, where they get watered. They spend the daytime on the window sill, and early morning and nights under my little grow light.
One thing I fear is the load of soil prep work that awaits, due to my neglect last fall. After the slug infestation, combined with other stress in life, I became overwhelmed and left it all to rot. But I learned from my mistakes (hopefully), I am prepared! So for now, I’m going to try to enjoy the rest of the winter and relax.
My favorite way of making hot chocolate by the way, is melting a block of valrhona dark chocolate, and then blending so it gets all foamy in the blender. So far, nothing has ever come close. Not even the ultra heavy, milky, soupy hot choco at the City Bakery.
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This year is off to a good start, because it started with the best Korean New Year’s soup I have made yet. But more importantly, I think I am finally on schedule with my seed starters, for once. I’ve divided the seeds into groups, and right now falls on an in-between down time, so I’m anxiously waiting, checking on the seedlings every few minutes, and obsessively examining the vermicompost bin to make sure there is no vemi-massacre happening.
The first to be planted were Artichokes from Baker’s Creek, verbena hoary vervain from Botanical Interests, and just as an experiment, pomegranate from my friend Melissa’s garden in Northern California.
Planted January 4, 2011
Verbena went inside a mug with a lid, because it needs darkness to germinate. As for the others, they had a brief moment of solitude on the window sill. Soon, more seedlings arrived.
This photo is from February 16th in the kitchen sink, where they get watered. They spend the daytime on the window sill, and early morning and nights under my little grow light.
One thing I fear is the load of soil prep work that awaits, due to my neglect last fall. After the slug infestation, combined with other stress in life, I became overwhelmed and left it all to rot. But I learned from my mistakes (hopefully), I am prepared! So for now, I’m going to try to enjoy the rest of the winter and relax.
My favorite way of making hot chocolate by the way, is melting a block of valrhona dark chocolate, and then blending so it gets all foamy in the blender. So far, nothing has ever come close. Not even the ultra heavy, milky, soupy hot choco at the City Bakery.
