Sore.

[thebitterguy]

So, today was a nice day. Cynra & I hit the garden like a shotgun (bang bang!) this morning. She took her car in for tire rotation and when she got back we got a rototiller from Stevenson's Rent All.

First, we stripped another 2.25 square meters of sod off, then tilled the native soil, black earth du sac, alfalfa pellets and municipal and personal compost into the entire garden to make one delightful growing region. The tiller was quite a nice tool.

The compost heap, which we've never actually openned before, smelled a little bit like poo. Or there may have been some wild animal poo next to it, which would suck.

We have some plants sprouting in the (God willing) nursery, and they should be ready to plant next weekend.

Actually, some of them are ready to plant now, but since there'll be a frost this week, we decided not to risk it.

However, that's one thing that did get on my nerves this week. I wanted to get some peat pots to plant them in so they could just get popped into the ground to grow.

So, I went to the Superstore's garden department. No. Canadian Tire? Nope. Home Hardware? Sorry! Loblaws? Uh uh. Rona? Not here!

Cynra tried a couple fo the hardcore garden stores, and they had naught, although one did give her a few plastic pots to grow things in.

Seriously, are they that small an item? Surely I'm not the only person who wants to put their plant in a pot made of peat for protection before preparing to plant them after the perilous period of poor planting has passed?

Ah, well.

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[indefatigable42.livejournal.com]

My gardening sources tell me peat pots aren't all they're cracked up to be... specifically, they're supposed to degrade and let the roots grow through them, but they don't really work. They end up just constricting the roots.

I used peat pellets this year. You soak them and then bury a seed in each one, and stand them in a tray and water them by putting water in the tray and letting it get soaked up. When it's time to put them outside you're supposed to just put them in the ground, except that they have a netting on them that (again) doesn't biodegrade as well as it's supposed to. I just peel it before putting the plant with peat pellet in its permanent pot or patch. (Dammit, now I'm doing it.)

I hope it warms up soon, my eggplants are outgrowing their pots. I already had to transplant them once.

[thebitterguy]

Well, Frank's saying that the frost danger should be past after this wednesday. So cross your fingers next weekend is good.

[indefatigable42.livejournal.com]

Yup.

The other thing is, regarding peat pots, it's waaaaay past the time of year when people are starting seeds indoors. That's generally what they're for, so once it's April they just might not bother restocking them. Three weeks ago I went looking for 4" plastic pots to transplant things into, and I was already late for those. Rona and Home Depot didn't have them, and I got them from Canadian Tire.

[thebitterguy]

True. We started on the little discs, but they've outgrown a couple of them, so I wanted to transplant for the rest of the week. No joy.

[troy-duffy.livejournal.com]

"person who wants to put their plant in a pot made of peat for protection before preparing to plant them after the perilous period of poor planting has passed?"

That whole story was just a set-up to wow us with your skills of alliteration, wasn't it? Fess up.

[thebitterguy]

The word Peat Pots just set my brain in motion. Who am I to resist that siren call?