The other day we woke up to a blanket of fresh snow. It was so beautiful out as we walked to the pool for our early morning swim!
I've been getting so eager to watch something grow! So the other day I was thinking about getting a head start on spring by growing something inside. We found these "Jifffy" herb kits at Canadian Tire (hardware store) and bought a basil and a parsley kit. I guess I could have bought a few packages of seeds and some potting soil and used some flower pots from the garage, but I thought it would be fun to try these jiffy pots to see if they actually work.
They come with a dry pellet like this (above) and then you have to add warm water.
The pellets quickly soaked up the water and expanded.
Day 1 - I fluffed up the soil with a fork
and then spread some of the seeds and fluffed up the soil some more to cover the seeds.
For the time being I'm supposed to leave this see-through lid on the tray and leave this in a warm place. It's a good thing I read the instructions to write them here, because I did not have my little green houses in a warm place, and I had already put them in our living room bay window in the direct sun, but just found out that they are not supposed to go in the direct sun yet. I'm not so good at following instructions when it comes to gardening, usually going with my own version of things. But I think I'll try to follow the directions (mostly) this time, to find out whether these jiffy pots actually work.
5 comments:
Hope these work!! That would definitely hold off your itchy green thumb for a few months longer : )!!
That looks like fun! I've tried those with flower seeds before, but couldn't use the lid because the sprouts grew mold so quickly.
Yes, Phyllis, that's what I'm concerned about too, and that's why I have a hard time following instructions on these things - because I always figure I know better. I think keeping the lid on them will cause mold to grow, and keeping them out of the bright light will make the plants too weak and scraggly. Out in the garden the seedlings get more air circulation and are always in the full sunlight.
Yep. Even in full sunlight, my seeds were terribly scraggly, but it might also be because we have low-e windows, so they may not have been getting the right kind of radiation.
Ah, Phyllis - good thought! I never thought of the windows, I think when we recently replaced some of the windows because the seal had broken on them, the new ones are now also the low-e windows.
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