Bulletin

[kaberett]

• The Enfield Poundland is selling 10l of coco coir (compressed bricks; volume once made up), which appears to be much better value that is achievable on eBay, so I am somewhat suspicious but We Shall See How It Goes.
  
• I... accidentally a low-tech heated propagator from Robert Dyas in town... yesterday? Yesterday. It's got a 10W base, has in the last 24 hours made it up to 32°C during the sunniest part of the day (but is happily hanging out at 25°C even when it's cold and dark), and will hold two ex-dozen-egg-boxes if they're squished a little.
  
• It therefore currently contains (i) chilli seeds, and (ii) passionfruit seeds. The chilli should germinate in another week or so; the passionfruit might... take up to a year, lolsob, but at least I've got them nice and cozy now.
  
• Meanwhile, there's the first sowing of peas (two types) in the bathroom (which is the warmest room in the house; the chillis might even have managed in there, as it's routinely around 20-21°C, but they'll be happier in the Warm Plant Box.)
  
• Today has been a day of A largely working from home, and also repair humans. The oven has been bodged so as to work provided one is careful, and will hopefully be fixed for realsies come Friday; I have got the first loaf of back-in-London sourdough going.
  
• The other Repair Human was someone who was supposed to be hooking up our new internet connection. This did not In Fact happen, because the human in question wasn't qualified to do the necessaries (we don't have a BT socket inside the flat) and hadn't looked it up in advance despite having all of the necessary information (that there's an internal hub) so it didn't even matter that we didn't have the relevant keys (and everybody else in the building who might have done was out).
  
• We... shuffled a lot of the furniture we hadn't first thought of shuffling around, a lot, in the process of confirming that things weren't where it would have been convenient to have them be, but in the process we have at least identified more tributes for the charity shop.
  
• ... I want my plants to hatch.

Comments

Busy, then

[jesse_the_k]

So the egg cartons used to hold a dozen and now they hold fewer?

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[vass]

So the egg cartons used to hold a dozen and now they hold fewer?

Exactly.

I think what kaberett is saying is that they used to contain a dozen eggs and now they contain no eggs at all. It's not the affordance but the use that's changed.

[redsixwing]

Hm. I hope the coir turns out well.

Propagator! :D Good luck with your passionfruit.

Mm peas.

[ewt]

Coir: I am finding that bricks advertised as 9l are anything between 8 and 10l. Also, I like having soil that is just-add-water, but it really does work much better with *boiling* water, and so rehydrating it involves a lot of messing about with the kettle and a bucket of hot wet dirt. It cools fairly slowly, though spreading it out into lots of small piles or lots of small buckets helps. (How much are the bricks at Poundland? I might swing by the one in Leytonstone when I get back and acquire some more.)

Tomatoes and radishes hatch fairly quickly.

[ewt]

Also, things of mine that have germinated so far are *all* planted in rehydrated coir.

These include:
-many tomatoes
-peas (outside)
-other peas (also outside)
-other other peas? (....also outside)
-lettuces
-melons
-other melons
-sea pumpkin
-butternut squaaash
-probably radishes by now but I don't know because I only sowed them the night before going away and I don't have any pictures yet

[fyreharper]

What is sea pumpkin?

[ewt]

Circubita maxima "Marina di Chioggia"

[fyreharper]

Ooh, it’s all nubbly! (Thank you, I was getting all kinds of interesting results trying to look up ‘sea pumpkin’, but none of them were that :p Found a really irritating animated short though...)

[kaberett]

The bricks at Poundland are in fact a pound -- I was deeply suspicious of this but they... really really are. I was Alarmed. I'm considering going back and buying more.

[ewt]

That's... very good!

I will definitely be checking our local Poundland(s) too.

I'm not going to buy dirt in Aberdeen and transport it to London in my suitcase.

Probably.

[sylvaine]

Woah, passionfruit takes that long to hatch sprout?

[kaberett]

YUP. Faster if it's properly fresh, but I... decided against trying to hatch it from supermarket passionfruit and bought myself some pre-packed seeds, which are a bit grumpier. They're good at surviving in the wild! It's also very obvious why people mostly buy established plants. >_>

[rydra_wong]

I hope your plants hatch soon!

[divulge]

Plants plants plants! Hope you have successful hatching soon.