I haven't posted much lately because there hasn't been a whole lot of growth to report on. The lettuce in the Earthbox has utterly failed. Nary a sprout. Booooo!
(Do I really need to post a picture of nothing? Would you trust me if I just said nothing's growing?)
I even tried different seeds, and still nothing. It's possible it's because both of them were old packets of seeds. I honestly have no idea. I might try sprouting the lettuce in those little peat Jiffy Pots and then transplanting them into the Earthbox, just to see if they'll sprout at all.
In the other boxes behind my desk, there's some spindly spinach growing, albeit slowly.
Not enough light. A lot of seedlings sprouted and conked out, so I think I'm also not giving them enough water. That's easy to fix. I watered the soil real good and re-seeded. Same deal with the arugula. More appear to be sprouting in both cases. The arugula doesn't seem to mind the lack of light so much. So, too bad, spinach! You'll get what I give you! I'm not ready to sink more money into lights right now...
Speaking of money, I did buy one thing recently. See the yellow thingies holding up the lights in the picture above? I bought a $25 plastic Erector Set at Toys-R-Us. Behold, my custom-built light holder!
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