Saturday, April 21, 2012

Radish boom

The radishes have been growing incredibly fast. I think every seed I sowed has germinated. But there were so many of them in the small containers that I had to kill some of them to avoid overpopulation.

I have moved some to the pepper pots. I have also moved some to my fish tank. I will see how well they adapt to their life in the water.

The first batch of pepper seeds have germinated too. There were 5 of them. I removed the weakest 3. Ultimately I will only let one survive.




Tuesday, April 17, 2012

Day 4: Amazing Radish

It's only been four days since I planted the radish seeds. But you look at them! They have already germinated! They are just growing like crazy!

In retrospect, I should have sowed the seeds more evenly over the area. Now some seeds are taking the same spot while some areas are just empty. Next time I will punch some seed holes in the soil evenly with a pencil or something like that before I sow them.



Sunday, April 15, 2012

Ginger killed

When I was eradicating the old cherry tomato plant (my sweet 100) yesterday, I killed the ginger as well - accidentally.

The root system of sweet 100 was so deep that it took me a lot of effort to remove it all. While I was doing that, I think I had damaged the root of my ginger too. So, I thought I might as well remove it to make more room for the newly moved-in -- Pepper California Wonder.

My ginger -- May you rest in peace. My apologies.

Saturday, April 14, 2012

Day 1: Radish Cherry Belle

I set up two additional containers for growing Radish Cherry Belle.

The small round container located on the far left is solely for Radish while the large rectangular  one in the middle is for both Pepper California Wonder and Radish.

I bought 25 liter of potting soil for the 2 new containers. But it turns out it's a bit too much because the soil is tightly packed in the bag and so the package gives me more than what I actually need. Next time, I should get less.

I sprinkled radish seeds in the round container as well as right side of the rectangular one. This is the first time I have ever planted radish. I hope they will be easy to grow.

Apart from radish seeds, I also sowed the second round of Pepper California Wonder seeds to the rightmost container and the left side of the rectangular one. I sowed 5 seeds in each container. That should be more than enough.


Friday, April 6, 2012

Day 1: Pepper California Wonder

New Year. New Plant. New Start.

I sowed 8 seeds of California Wonder Bell Pepper today. 5 in the big pot; 1 in each of the three incubation cups.

It's a gloomy day today. But spring has already started. So, plants should grow easily now.

Temperature 22 degree Celsius. Humidity 90%.