Serious Planting

Yesterday was Sunday.  I didn't take any pictures.  We watched ZOOM for sacrament meeting.  The video was good, but no Audio.  We could hear the meeting on my smart phone.  It wasn't very loud, and the audio didn't sync with the video.  

A cold morning.  There was ice in the cat water.  After breakfast I went out to house five. Carla, Shane, and some one else was there.  

I filled a tray of twelve six packs with potting soil.  I used a spoon to press down the soil in each cell.

After planting one seed in each cell, I lightly covered the seeds with a little bit of soil.  I firmed the soil against the seeds.  I made labels with the old computer in the little bedroom.  I stuck them to old plastic labels.  On tag in tach six pack.

Here is another try.

I had to make more labels.  I was in the little bedroom making labels when the power went out.  It was out for about one half hour.  It came back on and I forgot all about it.  Just before the 5 O'Clock news I remembered.  I couldn't find the file I needed where I keep the labels.  There were a bunch of thumb nail images.  I checked each one out and couldn't find any thing.  I then run across folder that contained a lot of files.  I read the date and most were over ten years old.  I found a file that had todays date.  I opened it up and there were the labels I was looking for.

I went back to house five and finished planting the third tray/

I watered the three trays.  One more tray for tomorrow

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Major Tomato Planting

Yesterday, I filled the cracks and holes with Elmer's Putty.  This morning I sanded both benches, even though, only one bench is shown.  There were numerous cracks and low spots that did not get filled.  I applied more putty.  I may sand it again in the morning.

I am having trouble with the jointer.  It is set for cutting 3/16 of an inch of wood which makes it hard to hold and to keep edge of the wood against the fence.  There is a wheel to turn to move feed table up of down,  When I turn it nothing moves.  I worked on it for over an hour.  I sprayed WD-40 on all parts that should move, but nothing moved.  I loosened some small bolts.  That didn't help.  There is a knob that looks like I could pull it back and that would release the feed table.  Using a wrench, I loosed the knob nut.  I tapped the feed table with a small hammer to jar it loose.  Finally the knob pulled loose and it was fixed.  I then tested it with several boards and was able to make a smooth face or edge on the board.

I decided to do some tomato planting.  The potting soil was so dry and dusty.  I gave it a lot of water and stirred it in.  It takes a couple of hours for the soil to completely soak up the water.  I left it like that and begin to get the tomato seeds.

I gathered up some of the seeds.  I have a computer and a label printer in the little bedroom.  I laid the seed packets in alphabetical order on the bed.  Then I made two labels of the seeds.  One to attach to a plastic stick and the other one to keep in a journal of some type as a record of what I planted and when it was planted.

The above tray is a recycled plug tray in which I got liners for different flowers which I grew to a larger size before selling.  It has seven rows with fifteen cells in each row.   Or look at it another way there are fifteen rows with seven cells in each row.  I planted seven seed of each variety.  I watered it and placed it on the heating mat.  Two of the three heating mats are plugged in.

Here is a close-up of the labels.  Zoom in a little and you can read them.

I need a box to hold my seeds where I can keep them in alphabetical order.  I had a plan, but I really struggle to get it right.  I got all pieces glued up.  I am letting the glue set all night.


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