There is also a limit in simple living, and he who fails to understand this falls into an error as great as that of the man who gives way to extravagance.
Interesting. I often accidentally grow potatoes in the dark cupboard but this is planned! Wow. 😄
Reminder
I kinda hate these videos a lot because they’re spreading misinformation, and if people follow them, they’ll be rather disappointed. So here’s my notes on each one:
Pepper: first off, those seeds won’t grow (the sprouts in the gif aren’t even pepper sprouts!). To get pepper seeds that will grow, the pepper fruit has to ripen until it’s wrinkly ON THE PLANT. Secondly, why the heck are you planting half your bell pepper? You are wasting half of the food you bought, it won’t benefit the seeds if you’re using a good growing mix, and it will rot in place. Third, that’s way too many seeds for the pot- you’ll have to thin most of them out.
If you do want to grow something from the produce isle from seed, try out tomatoes! I’ve done it. Just look at the cutting board after you’ve sliced up your tomato for your meal, and you’ll probably see at least a few seeds. Just pop them in soil, and they’ll grow- unless you had a really under ripe tomato. If they’re hybrids, they won’t come true, that is, they won’t be like their parent tomato. But they’ll still be a tomato!
Sweet corn: Again, no. Sweet corn isn’t fully ripened, fully mature from the plant’s prospective. Corn seed needs to dry down on the plant if you want it to grow. Also, you just skewered all those seeds, which would severely wound or kill them. Don’t do that.
Garlic: This one will grow! However, there is no reason to pre-sprout garlic, it doesn’t help the plant, and that water will smell! You can if you want soak garlic for a few hours, it gives it a small boost of it’s dry at planting time, but even that is optional.
A great alternative to garlic is growing green onions. My advice would be too skip the water, and plant directly into the soil. I’ve got green onions going on three years that I started from the grocery store.
Dragon fruit: That’s fine, just know it’ll take years to get a fruit.
Walnut: they need a cold treatment of 90 to 120 days before they sprout. So plant them in the fall so they can get it naturally, or put them in a moist planting mixture and put it in your fridge and forget about it for a while.
Leek: it’ll grow for sure. I’m growing one now, and about to plant it deeper to see if it’ll re-grow into a good leek or not. Fun times!
Anything from Blossom (which owns instagram accounts such as soyummy, 5 minute crafts, etc) should be taken with a grain of salt. These are content farms and a lot of their content is faked for views.
Today, I started some seeds! I am a little forgetful, so remembering to water can be a challenge. I found an awesome way to repurpose plastic water bottles into self-watering seed starting cups that keep the seedings watered for a week!
Essentially, you cut a plastic bottle in about half, make a small slit close to the neck of the top half of the bottle to help it fit in the other half. Turn the top upside down and poke a medium hole in the cap to allow water to flow in. Fill the top with soil, and put water in the bottom half. All you have to do is plant your seeds, make sure there’s water all the way up to the cap and stick it in a sunny window!
Another activity I did today is break down some old jeans into fabric that I can use in sewing patterns. Clothes that were in good condition were donated while ones that were more worn and would be very untempting to thrift store shoppers met their fate ✂ I looked up patterns on Pinterest using upcycled jeans and I found some for adorable bags, aprons, and pouches. I think they’ll go nicely with the scrap patterned fabric I have saved up!
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