{"id":2596,"date":"2011-02-14T08:29:19","date_gmt":"2011-02-14T13:29:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=2596"},"modified":"2011-02-14T08:29:19","modified_gmt":"2011-02-14T13:29:19","slug":"10-day-old-plants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=2596","title":{"rendered":"10-day-old plants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/baby-plants-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/baby-plants-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"baby-plants-1\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2597\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The baby plants for the winter garden are now 10 days old. So far, things are going pretty well for a first effort, but there are some problems. I&#8217;m afraid that some of the plants may already be too leggy. Some of the seeds weren&#8217;t deep enough, and some plants fell over, though they were able to send down a root. I had very poor germination with the Wakefield cabbage, for reasons I don&#8217;t understand. [See <a href=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=2617\">correction<\/a>: It wasn&#8217;t the Wakefield cabbage.]<\/p>\n<p>Lessons learned so far: The grow-light should have been lower to provide more intense light and reduce legginess. I need better forceps to place the seeds at the right depth in the growing media. I&#8217;m hoping that the legginess can be corrected when I transfer the plants to potting soil in peat moss cups.<\/p>\n<p>These plants are all for the early garden: cabbage, broccoli, brussels spouts, cauliflower, and celery. I also have lettuce and snow pea seeds, which I will plant directly into the ground. I&#8217;m shooting for March 15 for planting things outdoors, depending on the weather. When these plants have been moved outdoors, I&#8217;ll start seeds for the summer garden &#8212; tomatoes, squash, etc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The baby plants for the winter garden are now 10 days old. So far, things are going pretty well for a first effort, but there are some problems. I&#8217;m afraid that some of the plants may already be too leggy. Some of the seeds weren&#8217;t deep enough, and some plants fell over, though they were &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=2596\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;10-day-old plants&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-the-land"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2596\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}