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I'm glad to see that patience has paid off in seeing my Nicotiana seeds from organicseeds.top finally sprout, during the cold season.  I potted the seeds in earthworm castings entirely (no dirt) from Armstrong's . The potting picture was kept fairly moist soggy, and not allowed to dry out at all, under the plastic cover. The long columns signify different varietals, one to a column, as you'll see that some of the cells have not sprouted, to a significant degree. Thankfully, I purchased 6-7 different varietals of heirloom Nicotiana cigar and cigarette tobacco seeds, (check out the website at the top - there's still time to plant Nicotiana in Southern California, and in cold climates, an even longer period of time to get them started and hardened, out in the cold. The days have been warm, mostly, (in the high 60's and 70's, and the night have been dire chill - jogging-comfortably weather, in the mid-to-lower 40's, with some days of rain). I can't w...

  Android has a huge variety of apps for Smart Gardening on the Google Play Store. For my needs, currently, I was able to find some apps for free, one of which particularly suited my needs - charting seeds being planted in to cells of columns and rows - a 72-cell seed planting tray. I tried out My Seed Trays first, which is a good program in and of itself, although it uses date-time differentiation of planting, rather than allow me to name the individual cells, which is what I was attempting to achieve. Garden Organizer: Manager & Planner  ended up being the one I used for this planting project. Garden Organizer: Manager & Planner has a shape-and-grid-based planting and naming functionality about it, suitable, in my case, for plotting out the columns and rows of my planting tray, without having to write out with pen or marker - the names of the seeds, how many rows I was able to fill, etc. Garden Organizer: Manager & Planner: The app allows me ...

I'm super excited to hit Target on General Relief payment day of the 2nd of the month.  Target is running a sale on lighting for 15% off all lighting, excluding some items. Now that some of my seeds have sprouted, I'll want to get them under lightbulbs and lamp arms.

As most anyone might surmise, using plants as interior decoration lends an elegant, organic, and lively twist over typical furniture and room ornamentation.  I spotted this chic and modern design element at The BLOC, a newly redesigned outdoor mall, off of 7th Street on South Hope Street. It made me recall previous home decorations I had done, when I lived in two various high-rise apartments.  I had been collecting hard paper cylinders in preparation for use as planter media inside of my home. I imagine that I would be able to hang the cylinders from the wall and place standing lamps next to the plants so that the plants would be close to the lights. 

I’m fortunate to have come across some rock dust, as well, which you can see, I mixed in to the seed-starter mix, at about 30-40% rock dust to 50% worm castings, and one large handful of peat moss that I infused with Concentrace minerals. The carbohydrate additive is a shot at mimicking a much more fortified seed-case|topic:nutrient environment of one of the components of a seed, in and of itself, as it would (hopefully) sprout and find that this additive - Xanthan gum, in this case, as it is a protein binder, very glycemic - [perhaps... (a guess, off-hand)], and a starch, when dry (although I’d think that it shouldn’t much dry out completely.  This particular Xanthan gum product is a fine powder when dry, and a glutinous, and very stubborn gel, when wet with water. I got several pots planted, as well as an egg crate, for starters. (As a side note, I went conventional this evening and got my way out to Armstrong’s Gardening Center, in Pasadena, CA.

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Here's a cool video clip of the birds of Downtown Los Angeles' Grand Park Children's Playground. They're regulars at this spot in the afternoon. Mmm... xoichi munchies)) I've seemed to notice that the birds aren't too messy with their poop if they're given a vegetarian diet, as would most commonly be natural for these types of birds. Hopefully it keeps up as the flock's breed and grow larger.