After tasting our mesclun micro-greens planted on MLK's birthday, our 5th grade gardeners planted about 8 more mini greenhouses with mesclun mix last Thursday. By Sunday morning the seed had germinated. They planted these mini green houses with fewer seed so we can try to grow bigger plants, and or transplant to a salad box. Our last mini greenhouses were quite overcrowded.
These experiments are also great practice in using these very small seeds. The lettuces especially are very small and dark. Once put on the wet potting soil you can't see them and feel like you should plant more - just to be sure...
We are experimenting with seedlings now to perfect our indoor seed starting practices for our hot weather crops. The mix we have now can be directly sowed outdoors or into our salad boxes. This mix germinates so well, and grows quickly and with relative ease, that we thought it would be a good starting point.
We will also be trying some herbs, annual and perennial, for both indoor and outdoor use. Some of these will have longer germination periods and grow at slower rates. Plenty of fickle, slow growing plants that may allow further study of the problems that can occur when starting seed indoors.
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