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<\/a><\/p>\nNotice in the photo how the clear plastic looks kind of white. That’s the droplets of humidity gathered on the plastic. This humidity keeps the surface of the soil in the containers moist so the few seeds that have not germinated go right ahead and pop up. Dryness is one of the prime reasons that seeds fail to germinate. Often folks think their seeds are “bad” because they don’t germinate. Usually it’s one of three causes instead: poor potting soil, dry seed starting soil, or soil that is too wet.<\/p>\n
Our onions are up to five inches tall and will soon need a “hair cut.” I trim them back with scissors and that helps them get sturdy and fat instead of weak and too leggy. I may trim them twice in a growing season before they’re planted in the garden. By the way, I’ve got it on good report that the U.S. onion growers have contracted their entire onion crop to China this fall, so everyone might want to grow extra onions. The few commercial growers who aren’t members of the association will be charging more for their onions due to a small supply going to stores this fall. I know we’ll be sure to grow plenty again this year.<\/p>\n
It’s funny, I went to the store yesterday and noticed pretty fresh asparagus (from Peru), onions and peppers (from Mexico), and garlic (from Chile), not to mention mushrooms (from India) and nuts (from Vietnam). I didn’t buy any of the above.<\/p>\n
Thanks to the dozens of folks who have sent gifts of heirloom seed, honey, shelled pecans, cash to help with postage on sending the Hopi Pale Grey squash seeds (by the way, I’m getting really low on these; some orders will have to wait till fall), and other beautiful things. What wonderful people are in the BHM<\/em> family! I appreciate each and every one of you. — Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Once again, after starting our seeds in smaller, deep containers, covered with plastic bread wrappers, I put them in our little portable indoor greenhouse to grow in a sunny, south-facing window in the living room. I love the little greenhouse as it not only keeps the seedlings nice and warm during the day but the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3103"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}