April 14, 2007
Time to plant the seeds.
The top pack "Tomato" brand tomato seeds were given out as part of a sermon illustration a few weeks ago. These other two Burpee Tomato seed varieties were my brain child picks when at the seed packet stand.
6 bucks for the Jiffy Greenhouse 72. There are smaller versions of the Jiffy Greenhouse at your Home Depot. You could do the same thing with 3 bucks worth of dixie cups and dirt from outside.
This is as good as any way to remember which tomatos are where about 3 or 4 weeks from now when it's time to plant them. Any tips on Garden spacing so that I don't cross breed these varieties and ruin them all? :-)
Part of the fun of this is the science project end of it. Those things are compressed like a tea bag...
Add water and watch them grow..
Not exactly like you get in the picture on the box, more of a hack here, but still, perfect for starting seeds. When I was at the Home Depot getting this stuff, there were racks upon racks of tiny broccoli, brussel sprouts and other veggies in small pots ready for the garden that were shriveling up because no one was watering them. I asked the lady if they were anywhere near tossing those out the back door because some of them might live if given emergency cpr and water. She said the nursery ends up taking them back and dumping them on their end. It was worth a try, it might have been my first year raising brussel sprouts.
The Ferry-Morse Seed Company Mini-Seedmaster... The idea is, put your small seeds inside the tube, then the little dimple in the red spiky thing will let one seed out when you compress the spring. I totally understand the problem they are trying to solve. This in no way solves that problem. The thing doesn't work at all. It's not a total waste in the end, but doesn't do what it's designed to do. I was highly skeptical when I slapped down my 3 bucks, go with your first instinct.
So, I dribble out the seeds on the counter so I can get at them individually.
Put one in the middle of the dirt thing.. All you chess players see E2.
Use that hokus pokus thing to set the seed..
Then cover it over with some of the dirt and pack it down a bit..
Then I got out the peppers. I'm not sure if it will all line up right, but between the tomatos, peppers and onions in the garden, I hope to have almost all of the salsa coming in from the back yard.
Time for the base trim. We've been painting it up over the days, now it's time to install.
I've also had the chance to put in some of the outlets here.
We installed this door, and I think painted this place since I put up any pictures. It's the same color that's in the rest of the house, I'm not even sure what you'd call it.
When we stated the base trim, we didn't have the door/window trim painted yet, so we couldn't do base trim leading up to either of the doors. When we ran out of base trim options, we painted this. Now we can finish both.
This trim is in the way, but you can get the idea for the base trim we did get done down there.
Set the base up 3/4 inch if you're putting in carpet.
Years of experience will help you avoid this problem. I had to notch out the trim for these 2 outlets. If I did this kind of work day in and day out, I'd have set those outlets 1 or 2 inches higher in the beginning.
And, we have the speaker installed. It's the only one in the house that's right. M&S sent us mudrings for a taller speaker back when we built the house. After the drywall was up and I figured out that they were all wrong, M&S sent us those converters (basically a big washer to cover the bigger hole and fit this speaker size). They weren't ready to pony up for the drywaller cost, that was the best I could do at the time.