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Putting the WoW's out early, + seed list

Cliff Parker, from Maine, said,
>By the way, I've found that with the walls of water, I need to put them out
>for one or two weeks ahead of planting.  This gives them a chance to create
>a mini-climate within the WOW and warm up the soil a bit.  It cuts down on
>the transplant shock for the warm weather crops.

This makes *perfect* sense, and I've never heard anybody mention it before.
What a good idea, Cliff!  I believe I'll give it a whirl.

--Janet

Seeds into flats last weekend:

32 Brandywine toms
4 Yellow BW toms
4 St. Pierre toms
4 Dona toms
4 Yellow Pear toms
4 Guernsey Island toms (thanks to Doreen)
4 Park's OG Whopper toms

4 Nardello Sweet frying peppers
4 Purple Beauty sweet peps
4 Hybrd Lilac sweet peps
4 Orange Sun sweet peps

4 Ancho semihot peps

4 Eggplant Vittoria
4 Eggplant Burpee Hybrid
4 Eggplant Black Beauty

4 Cucumber Vert de Massy (to make cornichons)
4 Cucumber Early Triumph
4 Cucumber [some oriental long thing]

4 Cosmos Dazzler (red)

Toms and peps are being planted in flats that either do or don't contain Don
Chapman's mycorrhizal fungi so seedling growth can be compared with and
without that influence.

The quantity of Brandywines has to do with my planned mycorrhizal
experiments for summer '98.

FWIW, the fungi-dosed seedlings have germinated a little faster than the
controls.  This does not particularly make any sense to me; the fungi are
all about transmitting nutrients and water more efficiently to plant
*roots,* which seedlings don't have any of to be reacting with the myco
stuff when they haven't broken out yet....  But we'll just have to see if
there is any advantage later on.

What's everybody else got under lights?


  

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