Showing posts with label Experiment. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Experiment. Show all posts

Tuesday, 16 December 2008

Experiment 2

To save money we are only using the fire in the house and no heating. That would be great if there was a fire in all the rooms but there is only one and that's not even in the main room, so i have many layers on , i look like a little bear. Back to the point my father hired a chainsaw and we have cut up all the stored wood and fallen wood we could get our hands on there is allot of wood in the picture but that's just a quarter of it, i promise, because it was I who had to put all the logs away. However we got left with a tone of sawdust, so using my initiative i scattered it onto my plot for another experiment maybe it will do something mulch down or it could act like a poison and i have just basically killed my soil we shall soon see.

Experiment 1

Gardening can be an expensive hobby and so i am going to become more experimental with my gardening in order to a) save money b)use the facilities i have c) invent new ways of gardening and become the Einstein of the vegetable gardening world. The last one would be cool if it became true. On a serious note and non related veg subject i have been growing these Edelweiss seeds for months now and so far i have these tiny little seedlings which is great but they grow so slowly and my mother wants them off her window sill. So i have a wine crate and covered the base with straw to keep some warmth in. Hopefully because they are quite well established seedlings they will survive and you are meant to simulate the temperatures of the Swiss Alpes, i am praying they will be OK and not die on me. If anybody knows anything about Edelweiss at this stage in their life because i can't find any information on what to do with them as seedlings i just keep finding lyrics for the Sound of Music.

Monday, 18 August 2008

Starting Over

I have taken out all my carrots because i started thinning them and then i got so fed up i took them all out. I know hadn't planted them right the first time a) i scattered them b) and put way to many seeds in. So i thought i would scratch the lot and start over the traditional way. You may also be thinking what is that she is planting them in, it is an old travis and perkins bag which i filled with soil, compost, grass cuttings an some other nutrients. I did this because my soil is littered with stones, and i want long carrots not rude carrots. I saw this idea on an episode of gardeners world. 
My measly crop
Lucas with my only carrot!