Posted in Uncategorized, tagged big planting, chinese lanterns, flowers, FoodShare, herbs, lamb's ears, marigold, mustard, okra, plant giveaway, pumpkins, sedum, snapdragons, sunflower, thai basil, Tomatoes on June 18, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Hi folks,
Most of the plants from the Foodshare plant giveaway have already been planted. So there is little left to plant.
If anyone feels like it, the smaller plants could use some water when it doesn’t rain.
So far Najat, Maria and I got most of the pumpkins, herbs, flowers, and tomatoes in with the help of [...]
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It is approaching time for everyone who has tomatoes growing in their windows to start “hardening-off” the plants. Basically this is a process of gradually toughening up the plants and introducing them to outside. The tomatoes have been growing in the protected environment of your windows and the outside is going to introduce [...]
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My tomato seedlings have developed quickly and now have multiple true leaves. When your seedlings have reached this stage, it is time to transplant them into a larger pot. Read on for detailed instructions on how to do this and pictures I took as I did it yesterday.
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The true leaves have emerged and soon it will be time to transplant these seedlings into larger pots.
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Most of my tomato seedlings have sprouted now and I can start to see the first signs of true leaves (which are leaves 3 and 4 and will actually look more like a tomato plant’s leaves and not generic seedling leaves).
My seedlings have moved to the window, where they will stay until they are ready [...]
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I’m passing along a picture of the tomatoes I planted 5 days ago, which have just started to sprout. I’m going to keep them covered and in a warm spot for another day or two until more of them have sprouted and then I’ll move them to a windowsill. I hope everyone else [...]
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Thank you to everyone who came to the seed planting workshop!
The pictures are now up on the flickr page - check them out using the link on the lefthand side of the blog!
Below is a list of what we planted and a bit about each variety.
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Posted in Event, Gardening 101, tagged Eggplants, Indoor Gardening, Leeks, Onions, Pepers, Seed Planting, Seedlings, Tomatoes on March 29, 2008 | No Comments »
Because our growing season in Toronto is fairly short, many of our favourite vegetables such as tomatoes, peppers, eggplants, onions, and leeks, need an early start. It is easy to start seeds in your own home and many Maloca members have had success with little or no experience.
The following post highlights the basic steps [...]
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Posted in Event, tagged Event, Seed Planting, Tomatoes on March 28, 2008 | No Comments »
Maloca would like to announce our second annual Tomato Planting Workshop. The workshop will be held at 3pm on Thursday April 3rd. We plan on holding the event in the main floor lounge of the HNES building. Members, prospective members and non-members are all welcome.
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