So, there it is. The early emergence of a couple of types of plants.
Above is shown flat leaf Italian Parsley. This is actually my first run at starting it from seed. Generally I have bought a half dozen plants, well established, for about $4 apiece, and then various relatives have asked for plants, and I end up with (if I am lucky) half of what I bought. Michelle Grannes offered me seeds this year (the same day she brought us the giant squash) and there are, well, a lot of seedlings now. Should be plenty for us, for Frank, for the Ness family, and anyone else who I know that wants some.
Onions are up too. These, unlike the parsley, will stay in the strawberry clamshell plastic container until they go into the ground. Parsley I will split up into individual 3″ pots once I have true leaves showing.
The above photos are because these plants have been moved from the warm spot on a shelf above my stove, to under the grow lights in the basement. Not terribly warm down there, but I don’t need things to grow fast. I just need them established. The Lemon Drop Peppers I seeded the same day (ten days ago) are just starting to break the surface, and with how few have germinated so far I am going to leave them in that spot for a while yet. It is a bit funny, that today we had an ice storm, and temps in a few days will once again fall to -20, and here is green in our house. But Minnesota is a land of 4 well defined seasons, and this one is winter.
There is so much I have wanted to get done this winter, in fact wanted to have done before December, that is still needing completion. I still have hundreds of pounds of squash I want to process and get the seeds from. I want to peel, slice, seed, and dehydrate it. I have bagged up a few hundred bags of seeds that will head out to Seattle Washington when I can get to a post office, and still hundreds of bags to go. My apologies to those who want seeds from me, and all I can say is that I have the best of intentions to get stuff out to someone who can legally send it to before serious planting starts. It is kind of funny, but I will be unable to direct anyone who lives in my home state here to order from this site, as Minnesota’s seed laws and licensing requirements are found too onerous by them as well. The only solution I can bring to mind is that I will give people in Minnesota seeds for free if they come to my home to pick them up.
http://newworldcrops.com/wp/
This is the original site for the company who will be offering our seeds, and as I understand there are going to be linked sites for the purchases of different kinds of seeds. With what I have been dealing with here (my body) has me a bit distracted, but Patti did get me to a Michaels store for some more plastic bags adequate for the packing of larger seeds.
I do not move as fast or well as I would like to, but all I can do is press on, even if I am moving slow. <wry grin>
So that is where we are right now. Patti, myself, and 2 of our 4 kids are still dealing with some serious spinal injuries from the accident, but we are all alive, and planning on doing another summer of growing and processing food. All you can do is go on or give up, and none of us are really capable of the latter.
