Complimentary Blueberry Juice

We finally have some photosynthesis going on in the greenhouse! It’s nice to see green while there is still snow outside. This year feels a bit boring so far to start, but that’s largely due to me continuously moving seeding dates up.

Partly because of our improvements in germination. I used to give 7-10 days for lettuce to come up, enough days to recover if I had to re-seed. Now I have lettuce germination down to 3-4 days.

Partly also because our transplants are often large or stretching by the time we get them in the field, and this doesn’t do us any favours. Often planting stressed or stretching plants sets them back as they have to re-acclimate to new surroundings, which might take a week, even two weeks.

So we have a little more time on our hands in April this time, and with the delay in seeding most things, hopefully it will also give us more time during transplanting season. When you see stressed or stretching plants the instinct is to then rush to get them in. I’d rather have plants a bit “behind” than ahead of themselves and stressed.

These improvements have been the biggest benefits of careful note taking and updating the seeding spreadsheet each year.

So for now we’ll just be watching the snow melt!

Graham

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