I Want A Chipper-Shredder!

And I’m gonna get one too, and soon. I’ve been lusting after one for about two years and the time has come. It’s gonna help me turbocharge the compost/soil production – and gonna help me make lots of mulch out of all the sugar cane I’m cutting down.

Today I used the Planters’ Pride “Grower Starter Kit – with dome” to plant some more tomato and okra seeds. The Planters’ Pride kit costs only $7 and includes 72 cell pack, reusable carrying trade and “professional humidity dome” (i.e. plastic cover). In fact it’s abut $1.50 worth of plastic, but I’m grateful Armstrong is only charging $7 for it – they could easily being selling it at $12.95 or something like that.

This time I planted the seeds in a much more methodical and careful fashion and made sure to put no more than two seeds in each of the tiny pots. I think I got the depth just right too (1/4” for tomato seeds and ¾” for okra). I realized the okra seeds are a year old so if they fail I’ll blame it on the fact they are probably past their 'use by' date.

I’m not sure if I should use the dome or not – I’m concerned it might be too hot if the daytime highs are around 80 degrees…

Maybe I’ll just use the dome at night and keep it off during the day.

Today I transplanted the strawberry plants from the backyard to the driveway. I hope the transplant takes coz the fruit is really delicious on these plants. Not only are they sweet but there’s something so perfect about the texture – very different from the often “cellular” airy/dry texture of typical supermarket strawberries.  I might have over watered after transplanting – there was about half an inch of standing water around the two plants. I used the dry/wet vac to vacuum it up. Seemed to be a good solution. I’ll know tomorrow.

Need to buy tomatillo and beet seeds. Hopefully it’s not already too hot for beets.