Porch note: greens
Jun. 10th, 2012 12:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
magidI rearranged the plants on the porch this morning for greater accessibility to them and increased sunshine on them*, while leaving people space (that hopefully sometime this summer will also include a solar oven and/or dryer (I have a scavenged window from the neighbors across the street; now I need to get cracking on cardboard and aluminum foil for the cooker, and figure out something breezy enough yet bug protected for the dryer).
* I have too sunny a porch** to bother with shade-liking plants, and since most herbs and lots of vegetables like lots of sun, it's all good.
** Since I haven't set up an umbrella or other shade structure, I pretty much avoid going out there on sunny afternoons; I've even burned my feet on the hot wood.
I started doing some clean-up in the rest of the house (sorely needed, alas; I've been extremely lackadaisical), and excavated a packet of seeds from High Mowing Seeds, an organic seed company. It was marked "Packed for 2006," so I have no idea whether the listed germination rate of 80% will be anywhere close to accurate. Since I still had empty (of plants, not dirt) containers, I sprinkled the seeds, and will hope for the best. What they are is likely mustard greens, which is both on the front and back of the package, though the font also says it's "Morton Mild Mix," a mixture of red Russian kale, mizuna, tat soi, spring raab, scarlet ohno , and some others not listed by name (Interestingly, their current description of this mix, product number 2517, includes pac choi, and a description of the mix being mild mustard and brassica greens). So I'm not sure what I'll get, if I'll get much of anything at all. I should know in 4-10 days.
* I have too sunny a porch** to bother with shade-liking plants, and since most herbs and lots of vegetables like lots of sun, it's all good.
** Since I haven't set up an umbrella or other shade structure, I pretty much avoid going out there on sunny afternoons; I've even burned my feet on the hot wood.
I started doing some clean-up in the rest of the house (sorely needed, alas; I've been extremely lackadaisical), and excavated a packet of seeds from High Mowing Seeds, an organic seed company. It was marked "Packed for 2006," so I have no idea whether the listed germination rate of 80% will be anywhere close to accurate. Since I still had empty (of plants, not dirt) containers, I sprinkled the seeds, and will hope for the best. What they are is likely mustard greens, which is both on the front and back of the package, though the font also says it's "Morton Mild Mix," a mixture of red Russian kale, mizuna, tat soi, spring raab, scarlet ohno , and some others not listed by name (Interestingly, their current description of this mix, product number 2517, includes pac choi, and a description of the mix being mild mustard and brassica greens). So I'm not sure what I'll get, if I'll get much of anything at all. I should know in 4-10 days.