May 10, 2013
Hardening off your plants is probably the worst part about growing your own plants. At least for me it is. My plants are in the basement and I have to carefully carry the trays upstairs then outside and the plants ALWAYS tip over. (That's the negative of using red Solo cups).
I started off putting the plants in the shade until they started to wilt. I did this for several days. Then I gave them morning sun until they wilted then placed them back under the lights. Once they perked up, I placed them in the shade. I did that for 3 or 4 days. Then I started just leaving them outside all day then giving them breaks in the shade if they started to wilt. It wasn't long before they could sit in the sun all day with no ill effects.
This tray has a mixture of sweet basil, purple basil, peppers, and bok choy
Here are my tomatoes - pretty leggy. Lesson learned - I'm pretty sure I kept them on the heat mat too long so they grew taller than they should. Last year I removed the heat mat as soon as they all germinated but this year I was babying them and used it for several weeks longer.
Already starting to grow flowers :)
Pepper plants are growing buds
My beautiful pepper plants. I'm very happy with how these turned out.
My celery stalk - I'm amazed how big this is considering how tiny the seed is and how hard it was to germinate.
Celery shot from above - you can see the new growth coming up.
Close up of an eggplant leaf. You can see the tiny pricklies.
Another eggplant picture
Eggplant in the back right, celery in the front right, then basil, and bok choy
The bottom basil leaves are getting ridiculous!
The purple basil is really pretty.
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