Thursday, April 13, 2023

Beets started in ground (after soaking overnight)

Westmost foot is exclusively my home-collected cylindrical seeds; the eastmost foot is a mix of package detroit dart red seeds and my home-collected cylindrical seeds.

Method I followed this year:

Method followed this year:
- Lightly-ish loosed soil, mostly without fully flipping.
- Sprinkled in enough kelp meal, MRP, azomite, and myccorhizae to cover the area.  (i.e. completely unscientific amounts)  Didn't add any alfalfa.  Swooshed it all around with my hands to mix it in to the top layer.
- Marked/poked holes.
- Put vermiculite.
- Wetted vermiculite.
- Placed seeds:  Two per hole.
- Put vermulite over the holes.
- Watered it all.
- Put clear plastic sheet, anchored with rocks allllll along the border to help keep out any critters.

No rain in the forecast, so hopefully the plastic sheet will keep things nice and moist.

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