Garden+Journal

February 20, 2009
 * Set up shelving and lights (wide spectrum fluorescents)
 * Filled 3 1/2" peat pots with soil

February 23, 2009
 * Set up timer for twelve hours
 * Planted Yellow Onions (actually planted on the 20th, but watered and lit today) (10-12 days to germination ETA March 5-7)
 * Planted Purple Coneflowers (15-20 days to germination ETA March 10-15)
 * Planted Butterfly Flowers (20 days to germination ETA March 15)
 * Planted Bee Balm (10-20 days to germination ETA March 5-15)
 * watered pots
 * added peaches (canned) to worm compost and aerated

February 24, 2009
 * Switched timer to 15 hour interval
 * watered pots
 * added lettuce and chopped peppers to the worm compost
 * Aerated compost and added more shredded newspaper (rest of paper was a bit too wet)

February 25, 2009
 * added apple cores and slices to worm bin
 * added coffee grounds

February 26, 2009
 * Worms have become very active (small trails all over sides and cover; worms sitting on ledges)
 * Added more paper, coffee grounds
 * Watered seedlings

March 2, 2009
 * Worms were all over the lid and sides of the box (reproducing?)
 * Added coffee grounds (so far, one cups worth a day)
 * Watered seedlings, no change (was a bit too dry, no school last Friday)

March 4, 2009
 * Onion shoots are starting to emerge
 * Watered seedlings

March 5, 2009
 * Lowered lights to tops of boxes over seedlings
 * Added coffee grounds to worm bin
 * The shredded paper was lower in the box and wetter

March 25, 2009
 * everything is growing up now, time to start transplanting them into regular soil