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Greenhouse Growing Plot #59

First Germination of 2017

The developing theme for this week seems to be “emergence”. On a personal level, I’ve emerged from my Deep Dark Revision Cave, sitting four RHS Level 2 exam papers yeesterday, and am once again able to focus on things that don’t necessarily have a Latin binomial or a key role within a cohesive garden design […]

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Greenhouse Growing Plot #59

Comparative Germination: A Few Degrees of Difference

On March 15th I sowed two batches of Beta vulgaris subsp. vulgaris – Swiss Chard ‘five colours’ – in coir pellets; two seeds (or rather, seed clusters, as per beetroot and other member of the Beta family) per pellet. One batch of six pellets was put into an unheated mini-propagator unit in our (also unheated) […]

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Vitopod Pro-Tip: Maybe Invest in that Extra Level..?

Yeah, it’s cute when your cat sits on top of the toasty, warm Vitopod propagator. Well worth taking a snap and tweeting it: "A warming device for my furry butt-bits? Why thank you, how thoughtful." #vitopod #alternativeusesthereof pic.twitter.com/Z5ksZkgAIz — Darren Turpin (@nftallotment) February 9, 2016 But later on, when she decides that vermiculite smells like […]