{"id":3848,"date":"2023-05-03T15:01:09","date_gmt":"2023-05-03T19:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/?p=3848"},"modified":"2023-05-03T15:01:12","modified_gmt":"2023-05-03T19:01:12","slug":"seedlings-inventory-and-starting-cucumbers-squash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/?p=3848","title":{"rendered":"Seedlings Inventory and Starting Cucumbers &#038; Squash"},"content":{"rendered":"<body>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"695\" height=\"634\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Seedlings-05_03_2023-4.jpg?resize=695%2C634&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3854\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Seedlings-05_03_2023-4.jpg?resize=1024%2C934&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Seedlings-05_03_2023-4.jpg?resize=300%2C274&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Seedlings-05_03_2023-4.jpg?resize=768%2C700&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Seedlings-05_03_2023-4.jpg?resize=1100%2C1003&amp;ssl=1 1100w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Seedlings-05_03_2023-4.jpg?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 695px) 100vw, 695px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Tomatoes and basil <\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>My tomato and basil seedlings have been living on my kitchen table for the past few weeks. I rotate the tray so they grow evenly. The tomatoes are getting a bit leggy, but everything looks good. I have 9 tomatoes, 4 regular basil and 2 Thai basil cells.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"695\" height=\"521\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Seedlings-05_03_2023-1.jpg?resize=695%2C521&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3851\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Seedlings-05_03_2023-1.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Seedlings-05_03_2023-1.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Seedlings-05_03_2023-1.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Seedlings-05_03_2023-1.jpg?resize=1100%2C825&amp;ssl=1 1100w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Seedlings-05_03_2023-1.jpg?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 695px) 100vw, 695px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Leeks, kale, Swiss chard and lettuce<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I have a few of the seedlings outside on the back porch now to harden. I will transplant them into my plot in the next couple of days. We still don\u2019t have water in the community garden, so I want to wait until it is turned on. I have a bunch of leeks and Swiss Chard, 4 kale plants and 8 head lettuces. I will transplant some of the head lettuce into containers on my porch and the rest will go into the community plot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"695\" height=\"428\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Seedlings-05_03_2023-6.jpg?resize=695%2C428&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3856\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Seedlings-05_03_2023-6.jpg?resize=1024%2C631&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Seedlings-05_03_2023-6.jpg?resize=300%2C185&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Seedlings-05_03_2023-6.jpg?resize=768%2C473&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Seedlings-05_03_2023-6.jpg?resize=1100%2C678&amp;ssl=1 1100w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Seedlings-05_03_2023-6.jpg?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 695px) 100vw, 695px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Freshly sown curcubites, hot peppers, eggplant and tomato under the grow lights<\/em><br><em> <\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Today, I started my cucumbers and squash. Each in triplet, I planted two pots <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rareseeds.com\/cucumber-tokiwa-tokyo-green\">Tokiwa<\/a>, three plots pickling cucumber and two pots <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rareseeds.com\/cucumber-mexican-sour-gherkin\">Mexican sour gherkins<\/a> (cucamelons). I also planted one pot of Delicata squash (I sadly only had three seeds left), two each Butternut and Honeynut, and one zucchini.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"695\" height=\"581\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/basil-seedlings-05_03_2023.jpg?resize=695%2C581&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3849\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/basil-seedlings-05_03_2023.jpg?resize=1024%2C856&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/basil-seedlings-05_03_2023.jpg?resize=300%2C251&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/basil-seedlings-05_03_2023.jpg?resize=768%2C642&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/basil-seedlings-05_03_2023.jpg?resize=1100%2C920&amp;ssl=1 1100w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/basil-seedlings-05_03_2023.jpg?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 695px) 100vw, 695px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Basil close-up<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My tomato and basil seedlings have been living on my kitchen table for the past few weeks. I rotate the tray so they grow evenly. The tomatoes are getting a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[35,3,44,32,40,21,26,6,42,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-container-gardening","category-general","category-greens","category-herbs","category-planning","category-planting","category-spring","category-techniques","category-tomatoes","category-vegetables"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7mi2j-104","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3848"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3857,"href":"https:\/\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3848\/revisions\/3857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}