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Seedlings progress

07/04/2009 at 20:48 · Filed under Gardening and tagged: lemon grass, seedlings, squashes

The seedlings that were set in March are all growing on strongly, and have all been potted on to give them a little more room to grow, although the house is now looking something like a greenhouse as every window ledge seems to have some seedlings growing on it.

The first photo’ show my Lemon grass, this was grown from a piece bought at the local supermarket and I can’t tell you how pleased I am to see it grow.

The second shows some of the squashes in their recycled coffee cups, I just wash them and snip a few holes in the bottom and hey presto they are ready to use to pot up!

The third show various tomatoes, some more lemon grass that’s not quite taken off yet, and some lovage, my new favourite herb.

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Lemon grass and other seedlings

19/02/2009 at 17:17 · Filed under Veggie Plot and tagged: chili, lemon grass, planted, scotch bonnet, seedlings, supermarket, Tom Yam

mobilephonepictures-4601 The lemon grass that I bought in a supermarket has finally taken root! It took quite a bit longer than I thought it would to actually root but it is now planted up and I wait see if it will grow on to be a useful supply, oh I really hope it will.

It is fantastic ingredient in the Tom Yam soup, and I can only believe that cut fresh will be even better.

The chili seeds taken from one bought in a supermarket have sprouted and now on the second set of leaves, today I potted them on and so far they look fine. Hopefully they will reproduce themselves or something resembling the original. I’m doing the same with a ‘scotch bonnet’ chili too. At this rate I will be fully supplied with chilies for the next year.

mobilephonepictures-462 The aubergines Thai yellow pea were also planted on today too, but the onions unfortunately Red Baron and the aubergine Thai green pea have not done so well, not sure why but its a case of win some and loose some, literally. I might try to put some seeds of the Red Baron onion outside later in May, perhaps they will fare better going straight in to the ground.

This picture shows my ‘nursery’ ,the window sill of our spare bedroom, the radiator valve is not working and going at full pelt, perfect, there is always an up side to things.

To the left, the chilies on the right the planted up lemon grass. The aubergines are centre and are if I’m honest hanging in there…just.

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Seeds to seedlings and Spring is on the way…

06/02/2009 at 17:28 · Filed under Veggie Plot and tagged: aubergine Thai green pea, aubergine Thai yellow egg, chilies, lemon grass, onion red baron, seedlings, Spring

Today the first seedlings have appeared, aubergine Thai yellow egg, aubergine Thai green pea and onion red baron so now its fingers crossed now they can grow on into fine healthy plants. Also, as a bit of an experiment I took the seeds out of some supermarket bought chilies and dried them on some kitchen towel paper, planted them on and they have produce seedlings. I cant wait to see what the plants will be like. Maybe they wont come to much, it’s a learning process which ever way it goes.

I took a tip from http://www.yougrowgirl.com/grow/lemongrass.php and bought some lemon grass and put it in water to root, they are now slowly making roots so it will be interesting to see how quickly it grows on.

So now its back to the seed sowing timetable to see what’s next!

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