Now starting my tomato growing series

Thanks to the Sustainable Food Center and Youtube, I am now inspired to grow some tomato plants this summer. I thought it was too late to grow anything at this point, but apparently, tomatoes are a good crop to grow during the mid-summer in Texas. Since I have been binge watching other plant time-lapses and have been on a plant growing high, I'm going to try documenting the growth of a few tomatoes. Plus, it's summertime and I have a lot more free time on my hands right now, so why not start a tomato garden?!

I bought some seeds from the dollar store a few months ago before school ended. I made a little greenhouse for them to germinate quicker, and immediately I began to see results. I was so happy to see that I was about to be the mother of 5 little tomato plants. Alas, my joy was short lives. When the seedlings began to sprout leaves after a few weeks of germinating, I moved them to a larger DIY greenhouse. I kept them in there for a week and noticed that the plants weren't growing at all. They all died. I was upset with this result but not too upset because even though I wasted some tomato seeds, I glad it was only 5. I still have plenty of opportunities to keep trying to grow tomatoes. I now know that tomatoes can't grow in moist climates and they need a lot of sunlight.

So with that said, I will now be this documentation!

Look @ my tomato page for day one.

In each blog post, you will see the following:

• A minimum of 3 photos of the plant's growth
• A paragraph of observations
• A measurement of the seedling's length
• The date and time of the photos taken
• Anything else I find interesting that I might share

R.I.P. Avacado

BUSY BUSY BUSY

The title couldn't have explained my situation any better. Ever since I went on my junior Internship ended in February, this year has been all flip-flopped.

This summer, I plan to fill up space between the last avocado update and my future plans for them.

Right now I only have a week of school left, so I'm going to finish that before I do anything else right now.

Egg

Egg

I pruned avocadee

AVOCADO UPDATE

Avacado and Avocadee chilling

Avocadoes new growth is sprouting very quickly. Almost just as fast as my 3rd plant, Egg.

Avacado is still looking limp and petite. That lower leaf is continuing to wither away and brown. There are no signs of browning on the other leaves, so that's good. I heard this is a deconstruction thing avocado plants do when they're getting rid of old leaves.

I have a feeling Avocadees height with soar once those new leaves grow. Still thinking about pruning.

Egg

More of Egg. IT'S SO TALL! Almost taller than Avocadee!

New Hat (ARS Intersession)

For my school's 2019 Intersession, I joined the Getting Cozy one where all we did was watch movies and knit or crochet. I had an amazing time touching up on my knitting and crochet at the time. I even made 2 new friends. I started this blue hat with some yarn I bought from hobby lobby. I used a ribbed hat pattern I learned last year and I think it looks pretty nice.

Happy New Year!

Woot woot! It's been 1 year since the first post of this blog!

YAAAAAY!!

AVOCADO UPDATE

DEC 31 2018

Avocadee is growing new leaves! This plant is growing so much faster and healthier than my first one, Avacado. According to my research, you're supposed to prune your plant when it looks like this so it can branch out and look bushy and petite. I didn't know I was supposed to prune my plants until after they grew 6 inches. I feel like puning the plants this early is too harsh anyway, so I'm not going to do any serious pruning until the end of winter.

With all of this avocado knowledge, I'm thinking of writing an E-book about growing them. I did a quick search to see if anyone has published a book like that already, but I didn't find anything. I need to dedicate some of my own time ot do this, and it looks like the next time I'll get some free time will be when I'm done with Winterguard and SAT prep. However, I'll still make time to make monthly updates with my plants.

 I am so passionate about my avocado plants and I want to their progress as much as I can. In order for me to do that, I need a better camera, and more time and motivation. Right now I have neither, so I appreciate your patience.