Our first tomatillo!!!

Our very first tomatillo is looking rather healthy. This photo was taken during mid december in Arizona. This tomatillo is growing in an organic raised garden bed.

Companion planting in wine barrels

Just added some companion flowers and plants into the yard and garden this past few days. Here are some images of our wine barrel flower beds.

 The empty spaces are filled with seeds that should sprout in a week or so. I have herbs in the smaller pots next to the wine barrels. You may also notice a cape honeysuckle in-between the wine barrel and the edge  of our raised garden bed in the top image. The cape honeysuckle should grow tall and provide both shade for the garden as well as beautiful orange flowers to attract the great hummingbirds!

What to do with your newly germinated seeds

So now that you have germinated a few seeds with your new favorite seed germination technique, wet towel seed germination, what do you do now?

Well thats easy! You have a couple choices as far as I know. First would be to plant directly into soil and the second would be to transfer into a hydroponic set-up. I can go into the hydroponic method in a future entry as I am still trying it out myself.

So lets say your like us in that you have germinated some seeds and want to plant them into soil. Here's what we did:

Were using organic soil purchased at a local nursery. I added just enough water t the soil to make it a little more "sticky" you could say. A few cups if I had to guess, I'll make sure to measure next time. By the way, this Lipton green tea with citrus bottle makes a great 1 gallon bottle for the garden! Look at that large plastic handle!

Next we stuck our finger into the soil about 1/2" to make the hole and stuck the rooted seedling into the soil. Lightly cover the roots with soil and lightly sprinkle with water or water/seaweed solution when finished.

This is how it looks when your seedlings are planted. This will be placed near a window that gets about 4+ hours of sun right now. Time will tell if this window grow will produce anything worth transplanting into the large raised bed gardens outside, but that is the idea.