So, I’ve been delving into this nature thing for a couple weeks now. I actually got inspired by finding the old seeds I had bought a few years back but never got around to planting them. HAHA. I don’t have a green thumb like our maid does with our newly thriving patch of sweet basil in our garden. Shown below

basil patch on our front yard

One of the reasons I wanted to grow my own herbs and vegetables is that I get so depressed when I go to the grocery and not find what I’m looking for. So I went ahead with my silly idea. I just hope I end up with something edible after all this effort!

So it’s been two weeks. And I’ve amassed a good amount of seed and there are actually more coming in bought online! LOL. My mom bought this really huge tomato for salads and I was inspired to plant a few seeds from said fruit. The “pots” I used are either used plastic cups from my previous drinking sessions or they’re yogurt cups that the made kept around for some reason, wow, ME a treehugger?!?!?and I recycle. LOL. Here are the tomato seedlings since after a week of managing to germinate them:

Notice that the middle right seedling already is starting to form true leaves. =D

During that week I bought this noob style Growing Kit of Arugula (a vegetable that I would eat everyday!) from Ramgo. Locally bought in your general hardware store (Handyman) in festival mall. It had a growing medium (non-soil),  controlled release fertilizer pellets (which I didn’t use, coz I wanna go organic), a 4 inch plastic pot, a seed disc. The beauty of this sort of set up is that, you really don’t have to do a lot to it since you just put the growing medium in the pot, put the seed disc and you just cover it up with the rest of the medium and water it once or twice a day. I also bought the following: organic fertilizer (fish and seaweed based) and rooting hormone. Coz those I would use on my vegetables and you won’t have to worry about anything like health risks and what not. So here they are:

arugula seedlings after two days of watering

arugula seedlings after four days of watering

Here’s a lemon seedling that I managed to germinate from a few lemons I bought from the grocery. I got a bunch of seed but didn’t get much out of it. I only managed to germinate two out of around twenty. It was a bad idea for me to grow a lemon tree. For one thing it takes 5 to 7 years before it takes fruit, unless you have a dwarf variety that will bear fruit in months. I just wanna share it coz I’m such a noob and I am proud of myself. LOL.

I’ll post more once I get to grow them a bit larger and transfer them in proper larger pots. That’ll be in a couple weeks or so.

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