Exciting Weekend!

Wow! What an exciting weekend. Yesterday I went on a seal watch, right out of New Bedford harbor and then today I finally got to plant some of my seeds. Not only was it time to start planting some of my seeds but it was a beautiful day (it was in the 60's) so I decided to start the seeds outside.




Today I started Marjoram, Thyme, and Rosemary. I want to end up with about 3 plants each so I planted 9 of each. I choose to start the seeds in recycled newspaper pots. Here is a really great video on how to make newspaper pots.





The pots seem to work really well, plus its recycling! After I had filled the pots with soil I put 2 or 3 seeds in each pot and then added water to the bottom of the tray. Now the pots are in my basement for the next 8-10 weeks, I have a light with a timer so they will get both light and heat while they are down there.

Here are my pots and seeds waiting to grow all big and strong.


Right now the light is only on for 5 hours a day (its just for heat). When the seedling start to grow I will increase the time that the light light is on for.



Next step (which isn't for a while) is to harden them but I will talk more about that when the time comes.