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darkemeralds ([personal profile] darkemeralds) wrote2008-09-01 11:50 am
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Late bloomer

A fleeting moment of Pacific Northwest summer this year was surrounded on the mid-June and mid-August sides by cool, cloudy, rainy days, and now it seems that fall is here. It was 57 degrees in my bedroom when I woke up this morning. Already time to start closing the windows.

From four seeds that a friend of my mother's brought from New Zealand a couple of months ago, a single heirloom nasturtium has managed to bloom at last.



[identity profile] roseambr.livejournal.com 2008-09-03 10:45 pm (UTC)(link)
You are welcome to some of my harvested seeds. I'll save you some.

[identity profile] emeraldsedai.livejournal.com 2008-09-03 10:49 pm (UTC)(link)
That would be great! I've been saving up toilet paper tubes to make little seedling planters out of (you cut them in half and mass them on a cookie sheet with a heating pad under it and maybe a plastic tent over it. Fill 'em all with potting soil, plant your seeds, and then you can just pop them into the ground whole when the seeds come up.

[identity profile] decemberleaf.livejournal.com 2008-09-04 12:20 am (UTC)(link)
GOT to try it this coming year. That is such a great idea.

[identity profile] emeraldsedai.livejournal.com 2008-09-04 01:25 am (UTC)(link)
I hope you'll report! I've read about this but haven't tried it yet. It seems like a simple, sustainable idea and a great use for those tubes.