Been rather quiet recently. A lot of behind the scenes stuff, mostly just stressing over the pumpkins.
Figured starting seeds should have been easy, heck they practically exploded like weeds in the garden last year as volunteers. But, I wanted specialty varieties, so we’ve been killing all those and trying to start seeds.
Direct sowing seeds didn’t work last year, so we got a window box seed starter kit, threw a bunch in…nothing.
Added some grow lights to make it a more controlled environment and started a second batch…4 sprouts out of 25 seeds.
So, it started the line of suggestions. Scoring the seeds, floating seeds to see if they are viable or not, soaking prior to planting, and the old wet paper towel in a baggie.
That paper towel/baggie combo is MOST effective, I must say. A day later, most the seeds sprouted. transferring them over to the little pots, another 2 days, and they had fully broken through.
Near 100% germination after a couple more days, and so we tranplanted a ton of pumpkins into the garden this week.
However, I’ve had to leave the tending of the little pumpkins in the hands of my boys, as I’m on the road.
Didn’t expect to run into this in the middle of nowhere.
Will try to stop and get some more comprehensive pics on the way back through, I was heading the wrong direction with no good place to turn around/stop.