Monthly Archives: February 2009

Germinating Onion Seeds

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Photo by tanakawho.

It’s February and it’s time to start germinating onions around here. Old plastic boxes that were used for storing candy have proven to be very handy for starting seeds:

I use special mould for germination and mark where I want the seeds to go in. In this case it’s 4 x 4:

To get the most out of my bag of seeds I use a pair of tweezers to put in the seeds:

I’ll spray the mould with water and place it in a windowsill and wake up excited each morning to see, if the small fellows have decided to live :-D

Who Else Wants Free Sticks For Row Marking?

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I have this bamboo growing like crazy on a south facing wall. I cut it down every year, but it keeps coming. I thought about removing it completely, but it turns out to be pretty useful:

I cut down all the shoots at the ground and cut them into smaller lengths. They’re perfect for marking your rows after sowing seeds, and for some reason they’ll  last several years. Bamboo sticks are quite expensive in our local supermarket, so I’ll leave the bamboo where it is for now.