Sunday, March 7, 2010

Seedling Sunday: Legginess


fenugreek, originally uploaded by SummerAlyssa.

Got leggy seeds? You know what I'm talking about. Finally, the seeds have sprouted, they're reaching for the light...

And reaching...

Um, are they gonna fall over?

As one who uses window sills rather than indoor lamps close to the pots, I have deal with legginess all the time. Keeping them strong isn't too hard. You just have to take the time.

1) Put a fan on them. See my fan in the background? Believe it or not, this wind simulation helps keep them strong.

2) Run your fingers over them. The slight adversity helps get them ready for the real world of pests, pets, and small children.

3) Make sure they have enough light. Sunny windowsills are good, but sometimes not good enough. If it's warm enough, set them outside for as along as possible to get some good one on one time with the sunshine.

4) When you transplant, bury enough of the stem to keep the stress on the seedling minimal.

Unless you have a nifty fluorescent set-up, you're gonna have leggy seedlings. But don't worry, it's getting nice out there! Only a few weeks left until we can start digging our toes in the dirt!

7 lovely people said:

DC said...

Something funny has happened to your layout recently... post titles are in a normal 12 point font, lots of your text is unstyled or hard to tell apart from tags, links, etc. Did you tweak the CSS recently?

Summer said...

Hmm... I did completely change my layout a week ago or so. But the last two posts are published from Flickr. I wonder if that has anything to do with it? Are you seeing the changes in a feed reader? (Mine seem to look fine from the website and from Google Reader.) The last post was right from blogger; let me know if it looks any better. Thanks for the heads up!

DC said...

I'm viewing it directly from http://michiganmud.blogspot.com/ -- and all of your older posts are looking funny too. Also, the newest one has the same style problems. Weird!

Summer said...

Bummer. I really like this template:P What browser are you using? Maybe I can tweak the code to fix it.

DC said...

Good point -- I'm using Firefox 3.6. I just tried in Safari 4, and things look much better. Apparently there's a white box behind all of your text, too -- I never saw that until I tried Safari!

Summer said...

Dratted upgrades! Everything was lovely in 3.58... upgrade to 3.6 and magical breakage. *sigh* Shall we take bets on how many templates I burn through? :D

DC said...

Looking much better today!

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