Wednesday, March 18, 2009

The sigh of an indoor gardener

My new tomato plants are trying to lift their grow light again! You know, we all know plants are growing slowly, and still I feel I have a hard time keeping up. Running runners are twirling around each other in the kindergarten (ie. where I put the plants that have been repotted once) and I know that I should repot them NOW if I don't want them to become permanently entangled in each other. At the same time other plants are asking for attention, wanting to be released of their eggshells to slip into something more comfortable (a terracotta pot), which means I need to mix more soil and create more growing places. Right now I'm glad that more than half of my sowed seeds stays seemingly dormant - I have my hands full with their vigorous cousins!

2 comments:

Hydroponica said...

Every time I turn around I have to jack up the light on my lettuce a couple inches. My tomato plants are very short dwarf types so they're not attacking the lights yet.

I just set out a bunch of plants for my outdoor garden. I'm betting they won't lift the light there...

Rosengeranium said...

Let's hope they don't! But it would mean quite a lot of food on a small plot of land - so perhaps this is a good project for a mad scientist :)