So...it was 06 Jul 14, a Sunday. Haplessly led to the dentist for just a little something in my last standing wisdom (tooth). She looked at the tooth...made a face...looked at the time...then asked me if I had 10 minutes. Sure I smiled. Then on, I couldn't smile for the next 48 hours straight. My tooth gone...a dull numbing ache now a constant reminder of my gullibility and naivety.
Monday morning found me at the Boss's, with a woozy head and a swollen jaw. He let me off for the day (YAY!!!). And I was home alone. With my seeds and the innocuous looking coco-peat grow plugs. It was ordained to happen.
Step 1. I labeled a plastic tray...as in drew a rough permanent marker grid inside the tray and wrote down the names of all the seeds I had. Here...
Step 2. Prepared 26 (for that's the number of the types of seeds I have), grow plugs (also lovingly called 'giffys'...for they happen in a giffy!!). Now excuse if I sound perverted...but it's kind of primal, the way these grow in your hand. Just dunk them into water...give a tentative moment...and they come alive!!! Took out the bloated giffies nicely drunk and high on water and gently squeezed some to shake of any excess. So from these...
through this...
they became this.
Step 3. Removed 2 to 3 seeds of each variety and gently plugged them about a max of a cm deep into the coco-peat of the giffies. Gently shrouded the seeds with coco-peat. And literally, put them in their place.
Step 4. Covered them with a plastic sheet. My garden-guru (@geekgardener.in) had enlightened, how that'd help in retaining the moisture in the grow plugs. They now rest in peace, in a cool dry spot in a room. 'Rest' would actually be incorrect...the seeds I'm sure are already working hard on escaping the shell bound life, to freedom and blue skies. Just as some of us.
Monday morning found me at the Boss's, with a woozy head and a swollen jaw. He let me off for the day (YAY!!!). And I was home alone. With my seeds and the innocuous looking coco-peat grow plugs. It was ordained to happen.
Step 1. I labeled a plastic tray...as in drew a rough permanent marker grid inside the tray and wrote down the names of all the seeds I had. Here...
Step 3. Removed 2 to 3 seeds of each variety and gently plugged them about a max of a cm deep into the coco-peat of the giffies. Gently shrouded the seeds with coco-peat. And literally, put them in their place.
Step 4. Covered them with a plastic sheet. My garden-guru (@geekgardener.in) had enlightened, how that'd help in retaining the moisture in the grow plugs. They now rest in peace, in a cool dry spot in a room. 'Rest' would actually be incorrect...the seeds I'm sure are already working hard on escaping the shell bound life, to freedom and blue skies. Just as some of us.
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