germination & potting on

[bunn]

The packet of impatiens has yielded 26 plants, which I have now potted out. It's so cold that they are still all in the heated propagator. The petunias have not yet been separated, but I have moved them out into an unheated one - well it's not really a propagator, it's a plastic packet that used to have apple turnovers in it. Still, it gives them a little protection from draughts (and stops Kjetil putting his honking great paws on them).

I think there are a couple of pepper seedlings showing but they are so tiny yet that they could be random other seeds volunteering into the compost.

Still only one sweet pea. :-(

I still haven't planted squashes or beans. This is partly because of the weather, but also because our BRAND NEW boiler has decided to throw an emotional wobbly and will only turn itself on if supplicated in exactly the right way at the right time of day. Possibly it is hoping for a blood sacrifice. If so, it will be disappointed: a gas man is coming to poke and prod its internal organs instead.

At the moment I wish I could climb inside the heated propagator and work in there in the warm.

Comments

[ladyofastolat.livejournal.com]

You should probably sacrifice the gas man after he's done his job, just to hedge your bets. It's probably best to offer up some prayers (or some cats) to Vulcan and Hephaestos and Loki and all, too.

It's strange to realise that home is still cold. It's about 28 degrees C. over here in Florida.

[bunn.livejournal.com]

Hah! look at you, smug in your warmness!

The gas man has now come: I did not sacrifice him, though if it goes wrong again I may try it.

We don't offer up cats to the gods here. We offer up our wallets to the vet so that he can sell us a series of cat-tests, none of which tells us anything useful about how to fix the broken but dearly beloved, but which make us feel that Something is Being Done.

[chainmailmaiden]

Hope the boiler gets fixed soon, being without heating in this weather can't be fun. You've reminded me though, I must sort out a maintenance contract for our boiler. It was put in new just before we moved, but with the really hard water we have in Kent, I'm expecting it too seize up after not very long.

[bunn.livejournal.com]

The gas man came at lunchtime, and fingers crossed, it is fixed. He said it needed to be 'set up'. I said shouldn't the man who installed it have done that? He said no, that is a special thing they do in the factory but sometimes it needs doing again.

Can't help feeling that selling the boiler without telling the installer or the owner that it needed this special extra ritual was a bit cavalier...