So many seeds sprouting in our garden

The heat here in Arizona has been on a steady increase for some reason. Nothing record breaking, but still way above average. While checking the saoker hose in our raised garden beds today, I noticed a lot of seeds have started to sprout. Both our wild flower and our vegetable seeds are doing extremly well as far as I can tell. I've noticed the sun flowers, peas, corn, lettuce,spinach, lima beans and a few others have broken through the top soil to see the sun!

I hope to have some images to share with you in a day or so.

Blue Lake bean seeds sprout in 2 days!

Something told me today to check the seeds in the zip lock baggies for roots...I am happy to report that the Blue Lake bean seeds have germinated very well in ONLY TWO DAYS!

I have added these to the mini garden and moved it to an East/ South East facing window. I hope to have more great news soon on the rest of the seeds.

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.

Mini garden not a success

Sad to report that the outdoor mini garden is not a success. That one small sprout gave us hope, but it soon was clear that the heat was too much. It looks as if we will try once again indoors this time. We have tested another seed germinating process and are happy to state much success with that. Photos to follow :)