Sunday, July 24, 2011

Heirloom Seeds....

Recently I received my package of heirloom seeds from Living Seeds. What excitement! I now have seeds of a huge variety of weird tomatoes and some strange beans, carrots, corn (strawberry popcorn!) and peppers. As July draws to a close I plan my planting for the spring season. Waiting in the wings are also some curious strips of paper with seeds inside, ready to be planted as is, paper and all. It's from a company called Reel Gardening. Really clever stuff. The strip of colour at the top needs to stick out of the ground. Instructions are written in seven of our official languages.

The moon is still waning, so it is a good time for below ground vegetables ~ the beetroot that I love, carrots and onions as well. Tomorrow will be a good day to go and buy a few seed trays, some good compost and to get some sand from the river bed nearby. Vermiculite is in a bag waiting to join the fun, to hold in the much needed moisture.

Until July 25, 2011 04:34 PST (Pacific Standard Time) the moon will be in Taurus. That is a good time for sowing and planting trees, bushes, hedges and root vegetables. Also good for setting up a compost heap while the moon is waning. We can combat pests in the soil as well and if you have flowers with poorly formed roots, you can fertilise them.

On the 25th, the moon enters Gemini at 04:34PM PST and then things change again. Good for planting creeping and climbing plants, planting and sowing flowers and sorting out pests again.

So there we are, work to be done! Roll on morning...


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