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Hitchhiker's guide
May. 10th, 2005 05:36 pmI know it hasn't been well reviewed but I liked it.
( Cut, though there aren't really any spoilers and surely everyone knows the plot by now anyway! )
My squash and pumpkin seedlings are just starting to show their leaves. They've taken so long I was sorely tempted to pop them in the heated propagator, but I have this theory that if I let them germinate at their own rate in the (unheated) greenhouse, they will be tougher and should be ready to plant out at the right time, rather than too early and be weakened by the shock of going outside too soon. I notice that the automatic window opener in the greenhouse did its thing for the first time yesterday.
There are 25 young green figs on the fig tree, and they all look healthy! Could it be that this year I have got the timing right? Figtrees tend to produce figs whenever we get a warm spell - they don't ripen properly if they get frosted, but they do sit on the tree for ages stopping it from producing another batch. Last year I pulled all the visible figs off in November, I think, and it started making new ones early this spring.
My squash and pumpkin seedlings are just starting to show their leaves. They've taken so long I was sorely tempted to pop them in the heated propagator, but I have this theory that if I let them germinate at their own rate in the (unheated) greenhouse, they will be tougher and should be ready to plant out at the right time, rather than too early and be weakened by the shock of going outside too soon. I notice that the automatic window opener in the greenhouse did its thing for the first time yesterday.
There are 25 young green figs on the fig tree, and they all look healthy! Could it be that this year I have got the timing right? Figtrees tend to produce figs whenever we get a warm spell - they don't ripen properly if they get frosted, but they do sit on the tree for ages stopping it from producing another batch. Last year I pulled all the visible figs off in November, I think, and it started making new ones early this spring.
