Springtime is Near!

It's been awhile since I've posted here. I haven't had much exciting stuff to post about plants through the Fall and Winter. But with Spring approaching, many of my plants are springing (pun intended) into growth. Sunlight like usual isn't great in my home but perhaps the plants notice the weather change. I hope to have some interesting content to post up soon! I've started dabbling with growing sprouts. It seemed like a crop that I could very easily grow and successfully harvest in my humble, mostly sunless apartment. So far I've successfully grown one batch of alfalfa sprouts. It took approximately five days to harvest my first crop. It was a rather cool experience watching the small amount of seeds in the jar explode into a huge bunch of sprouts. It was even more exciting as I got to enjoy them in a sandwich and a salad. I'm currently growing batch number two. If the alfalfa sprout growing continues going well, I might expand into broccoli sprouts. I've never actually ate broccoli sprouts, that I've known of at least, but am willing to try. They appear to be just as easy to grow.

Anyway, look forward to more posts from me in the future. I think - hope - that I have some interesting things to share soon!

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Windowsill Radishes - Day 18

The plants as of 5/2/2020 reached 18 days of growth. That growth has been impressive to me at least. I'm new to growing radishes except I think back in elementary we grew a few radish seeds in a Styrofoam cup of dirt as a science experiment. From what I've read online, I may be looking to fertilize the plants soon. The second set of true leaves have now reached about the same size as the first set were on Day 12. Here's the photos from Day 18.

Growing Celery from my Refrigerator and Watching it Flower/Bloom

Have you ever had celery in the refrigerator so long to the point where it becomes link and bends from it's own weight? I had one of those recently. The celery itself still looked "good" in the sense it was green. It wasn't rotting or brown or disgusting. Perhaps some might find limp celery gross. I was determined not to just have to toss out the celery and attempt to revive it in a cup of water. I grabbed a mug, filled it with a little bit of water, and plunked the flimsy celery in. After a few days the celery had plumped up and became firm again. But of course after it had reached a point where it was edible, I wasn't in the mood for celery. I left the celery in the mug for a week or so while adding water. One day I removed the celery to rinse it off a bit under the faucet and surprisingly I observed some roots growing from the bottom of the stalks. Interested, I decided to let the plant grow as opposed to eating it. I eventually moved it to a sunny window from...

Windowsill Radishes - Day 15

Finally made it to posting about the current day's progress on the day of! The radish plants' growth appears to really be taking off now. I expect I'll start seeing large amounts of growth each day from here on out. I'm really excited to see if bulbs will start forming. That likely won't be for another week or two though (maybe longer). The second set of true leaves on the left plant are definitely apparent in these images. The leaves just look so nice and I'm really enjoying observing the growth each day. Perhaps the next step for me would be doing a time lapse video of growth.

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