Karl's Garden Blog

It was a busy Sunday for me. Sorry that I’m just sitting down to post pictures now; my laptop has a problem with it and that’s what I use to boil pictures from my digital camera down to something that people can download on the web.
The first thing is that I actually planted some [...]

I love the planter tags that came with my nursery trays, but there were too few included to even mark each set of nine pots! And the Jiffy Pots container didn’t include any, so with four trays full of seedlings, I’ve been struggling to find solutions that let me keep everything organized and track each [...]

My green bean plants, the ones that were doing so well in the nursery tray, are pretty much dead.
If I’d read the package, I would’ve seen the notation that they need to be planted two inches deep. That’s pretty much the bottom of the container… so I just planted it in the middle and [...]

Please see the note at the end before you try this!
Ok, it’s well known that I’m not a southerner. And if there’s one thing southerners hate besides not-southerners, it’s hippies. When people hear I’m from the west coast, they start asking the weirdest questions.
And it’s all true. I know a few lesbians. I have [...]

… and some days you lose.
Two failu… err, “Learning Experiences” today:

Don’t hurt yourself by trying to finish a project. That’s a recipe for ending up flat on your ass high on muscle relaxers and ibuprofen.
The Night of the Living Kohlrabi: The kohlrabi seedlings that had gotten leggy had all collapsed under their own [...]

Since my newbie soil mistake is creating some damned leggy plants, I decided to start over in some cases in case I can’t salvage the leggy ones. (Luckily, I had plenty of leftover seed.) Tonight, I threw together another tray of seedlings … this time using the right stuff.
But wait — there’s more! I’m [...]

Sorry about the lack of updates. It won’t happen again. Promise. I was sick with the flu last week, so no work got done on the raised bed other than some small feeble moving-around-of-soil, and I didn’t really get all that much done indoors either. Except sleep. I got a LOT of sleep. And I [...]

As my mom said, “Glad you’ve got sprouts, now the challenge is keeping them alive!” I realized yesterday that I had overwatered on Monday night and had to drain some out of the trays. Oops. Good thing I bought the tray kit, it made it easy to lift the seedlings out and dispose of the [...]