Showing posts with label plants. Show all posts
Showing posts with label plants. Show all posts

Saturday, November 20, 2010

Pelargonie!


My pelargonie bought in Al Safa 2, near Spinneys. I also bought some pots there, but I'll have to go there again a day I'm not in a hurry. 
The salesman told me the flowers would be orange. I think, they are a mix between orange and pink, very pretty and eye catching!

They are growing!

My little tomatoes, now 10 days.

A picture of my Tomatoes, after 10 days!
They are still looking good, even though the temperature is higher than the recommended. There is hot in our little garden, the walls around it makes it into a pot. But they are still in the sun, I hope they wont get high and lanky then.
I'll have to find out, if I should do something different, than what I would do in Denmark.
It's normal in Denmark to have them in a Greenhouse. There they will be warm, and get shelter from the rain. Both, cold nights and rain, are not a problem here :-)
So, maybe outside in my garden here, is just like inside my old Greenhouse.

Wednesday, November 17, 2010

Sowing Tomatoes!

My tomatoes just broke ground!


Now I have a garden, the Summer is over, it's sowing time!
I will try different seeds, some will succeed, some not. I still don't know a lot about sowing and plants in this weather, so I'll just give it a go.

My first attempt will be cherry tomatoes.
So, I bought my favourite tomatoes. Squeezed the tomatoes and spread the seeds out on kitchen towel, folded it, and put it in the sun a few days to dry totally.
It is the jelly stuff around the seeds, that prevent them from sprouting, and I think this is the easiest way to dry them.
Then I gently took the seeds off the paper, and seeded 4 in each little pot, and waited....
After 3 days I could see the first little sprouts, and they are growing fast :-)
I still have them in the sun, I hope that it will help them to get used to the heat. But soon I'll place them different places in the garden, so that if they die, it hopefully wont be all of them.

So, after this first (so far successful) attempt, I will try different seeds now. Don't know which yet, I'll go to the Hypermarkets and nurseries to get ideas.