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Sunday, February 6, 2011
And Sow it has Begun
I recently read on Tasty Travels' blog a post about growing celery from seed. She mentions how celery seeds could take weeks to germinate, so I decided that I should sow my seeds now, which is now about 10 weeks to our last frost here in Zone 7. I have never grown celery from seed before. Through a seed trade with Food Garden Kitchen, I traded them some of my seeds for their Utah Celery seeds. I sowed the seeds on February 3rd, so I'm hoping in a few weeks that seedlings will emerge. If you read my blog, you know how much I love to recycle. Every work day, I pack the hubs lunch that he brings to work. It helps us save money because I'll cook a few big meals during the week and pack the left overs for him to eat at work. I estimate it saves us $50 a week because he doesn't have to buy lunch. My husband though has quite a sweet tooth, and desserts are not my forté. He loves to have dessert in his lunchbox. When we see it on sale, we buy pudding packs. I'm not a fan of buying food that has so much packaging involved, but as soon as I saw the pudding packs, I knew I was going to use the empty plastic containers as seed starter pots. The hubs saves the plastic cups for me and I re-use them to sow seeds in. I just poke holes on the bottom to allow water to escape. Being able to re-use the containers makes me feel a little better about buying "convenience" food.
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Congrats on recycling those cup! They're perfect!! Mmmm....pudding! Utah is the celery I'm growing too. I also go it in a swap. I just noticed that to the right you're looking for thyme seeds. Did you get them? I bought a packet and won't use it all. I'd love to send you some of you're still looking for them. I just sowed the thyme this weekend.
ReplyDeleteThat's a great way to repurpose those little containers!
ReplyDeleteWhat a great idea! Hubby buys those pudding packs for his lunch too! Now I know we can save and reuse!
ReplyDeletePS: Last year we grew celery from the bottom of stalks we bought at farmers market! JUst cut off the bottom of the collective stalks (keep it whole rather than pulling each stalk apart) and then plant it. You'll soon have new celery growing from it.
ReplyDeleteYou really really need to learn about winter sowing. Go here and read about it.
ReplyDeletehttp://faq.gardenweb.com/faq/lists/wtrsow/2002050141031613.html
The woman who wrote this lives on Long Island in Zone 7 and has a harsh winter just like yours.
Great idea for a seed starter!
ReplyDeleteAnd I still owe you some seeds! I'd better get on that package.
ReplyDeleteOh seed starting. We're still about 14 weeks prior to last frost and I'm chomping at the bit! What a fabulous reuse for those pots. We very occasionally get those pudding cups for the children for lunch. Hmmm.... With our kitchen remodel coming up I can see some convenience food in our future....
ReplyDeleteJudy
Wait for me! LOL... I'll be starting the first of my seeds today!
ReplyDeleteI've never grown celery, but would like to try. For some reason, it's hard for me to imagine that little ol' me could grow those stalks myself! Very cool that you're doing it and recycling, too!
ReplyDeleteGood way to recycle. Thanks for reminding me I need to cut the bottom off of my celery and plant it!
ReplyDeleteNice way to recycle! I've been using yogurt cups for the same thing!
ReplyDeleteThere are so many was to recycle and using containers like this is a great way to do it and sow seeds for #freshfood and flowers Love your post Annie
ReplyDeleteThat is really a nifty way of reusing the containers. We start celery about 10 weeks before we plan to transplant it out (we harden off the seedlings for 1 week before they go in the ground). Good luck with the celery!
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