If you do not have a green house N2 continued

If there is no green house some things can be used instead
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21 days later we have
lamps raised 3 times 2.5 or 1 inch each time give or take, now lamps are a bit higher than I like but with plants in this size I'm ok with that
Shop lights needs to be close to the plants, that prevents leggy plants.

 

Roots on tomatoes are good. Our spring is very very windy and 40-55mph winds afternoon are not unheard off (40+ is normal) by any means.  So tomatoes get berried a good bit int the dirt, aka planted deep. For that reason and to make lots and lots of roots to feed on that compost. And some carp caught by bow fishers in lakes (it's a junk fish, state pays folk to shoot it to control it in lakes, otherwise it overpowers all other fish and throws the lake of balance, they grow huge)... I get free and plant that fish in the dirt and tomato next or on top of it. Scandinavian fertilizer that works here very well, just have to keep coyotes out :) of it...


Grapes timeline:

started cuttings

 

They start like so, buds not captured, but with this method leaves going first is normal, what is not desirable is leaves and lots of them and not roots, aka lagging root development.

 To speed that up have to put heat mat under the box like so below

these are some struggles in the red box, and them in 4 days in red box planted, from struggles I lost 4 eventually, so only 2 made it to good size (losses within 1 month)

 In tubes, this way they stay put for 1 month at least. they need to have good bundle of roots. Be real careful transplanting them into XL 1 gallon pots

 Transplanted. These went into sunroom many times and came indoors under grow light (hooked to tripod... it holds it ok... but I would not use bogen for that :), it's a spare and has lost plate on it...)

So grapes were already adapted to sunroom and a bit outdoors.
I have 3 snow storms to go including this week before all the spring roller-coaster will settle more-or-less... we can get snow first week in June as well.

Grapes will be hardened in shade in 1-2 weeks, right now it's snow, so not a good time, but it will be all gone as usual in 1-2 days.

If you do not have a green house

set up is very simple and I found it working better in several years in a row compared to 200$+ grow lights
shop light (full spectrum), have full spectrum led -even better.
cinder block (2-6) to vary height
pvc pipe and angle joins, plastic, packing tape

the construction looks like so:
light goes on timer on cinder blocks, as the plants grow raise the light. this prevents leggy seedlings.

 

tarp for mess prevention. the seedlings are on rubber mud shes trays. no mess, wood floors are just fine

spring. весна

no knitting... Spring, planting and weeding whatever did come up in the landscape and there is plenty that did. it's getting darker fast and here is not much happening in the garden, some tulips are trying to come up and some perennials.
planted that small army. in some bagы there were well over 100 bulbs, some had something like 6-10.

вязание не того... сажаем. маленькую армию корней и луковиц. это куплено в оптовом магазине в некоторых уаковках больше 100 луковиц.

 got some of these containers going . It's quite early for anything to come yup, just had me frost on the ground the other day, good inch froze in the pots on the top

посадила несколько вот таких контейнеров, это из тех к которые таска земли и потом еще... короче напесталась я земельки
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 then this
потом вот это копали и сажали. глинозем однако... кроме как по весне ткое не возьмешь, дальше это только колом долбить :)

not sure what that ground cover is.

никто не знает что это такое?

у меня ее вот в этом месте насажено, а моет оно само. не очень поняла что это такое, больше нигде это растение а гектаре не встречается.

it is all over that area

это вот тут посажено

will see. hopefully it does not freeze badly.

вобщем посмотрим, если не замерзнет сильно у нас до средины мая может долбать с +25 до -15 в 2 дня.  вчера посадила, пролила, утром на 2 садтиметра земля заерзля. заморозок. по нашим меркам это так... снег ляжет, растает через 2 дня. только тюльпаны кое-где высовываются пока

и семена