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Steel cable, pulley, and a clever device that lets me raise the lights as the plants grow.
Sunrise Light Hangers: www.ecogrow.com/index.cfm/product/652/mid/8/nid/37/home.html
A bracing morning's work planting tree-seedlings on Helvellyn's lower reaches (but still a bit of a climb to get here)! , and what a privilege it is to be able to do something wonderful in nature's garden .. This is day three on the John Muir Trust conservation work party in Glenridding and sadly it comes to its end as all good things do.
The Lakes are frequently associated with the Romantic Poets of the Wordsworth era but I'm sure every artist or writer of note will have made a pilgrimage to this landscape. And not least good old Sir Walter Scott who took the trouble to climb the hill and produced his poem:-
HELVELLYN (Opening Verse Only)
'I climbed the dark brow of the mighty Helvellyn,
Lakes and mountains beneath me gleamed misty and wide;
All was still, save by fits, when the eagle was yelling,
And starting around me the echoes replied.
On the right, Striden-edge round the Red-tarn was bending,
And Catchedicam its left verge was defending,
One huge, nameless rock in the front was ascending,'
Not by any means a prize winner, but at least he marks this wonderful place, and lucky are we who pass this way too.
Arabidopsis thaliana seedlings - the one on the top has made two sets of adult leaves and is putting out the third, the one in the bottom right corner is just a teeny baby that germinated late and only has its two cotyledons so far.
Note that the cotyledons are "naked" while the adult leaves are covered with trichomes (leaf hairs). Arabidopsis makes Y-shaped or three-pointed branched trichomes on its leaves.
I have six SMR-58 cucumber seedlings in three 4x4 pots that spouted today! I'm so excited. They took about five days to sprout.
These are some kind of peppers. I never grew anything from seed before, well, maybe once when I was 6. Now I suppose each one will have to go into a separate pot?
Over a year ago my grandson and I planted a black alder tree in our back yard. The tree is now big enough to put forth seedlings. I remember the day we planted this tree like it was yesterday. It was a cherished moment for me. Of course I call this wonderful little alder tree, "Tanner's Tree"
Took my students to Peacework Farm today, an organic farm in Newark, NY that provides Community Supported Agriculture for the surrounding counties. We had a beautiful day, with a tour of the farm and then helped them weed some of their scallions.
These flats were in a greenhouse and are full of seedling starters that will be planted outside if it ever stops snowing.... (yes, we had snow yesterday!). I thought they looked like farm fields, but in miniature!
It's spring, and we're getting ready for a good showing of Zinnias. These seeds germinated and sprouted in less than 48 hours.
Its that time again...seedlings are growing happily in the greenhouse and corn should be in the ground in a week or so..its been an oddly warm spring so far...and there really was no winter...not that we're complaining!
I sowed these on the last day of May with grandson Freddie. I've left it this late as it has been very cold here this second half of May.