okay my babies are very unhappy today, they did not like sitting the night taped up in a box and in there tiny pots on top of that, they are a bit discolored, lighter green, and the tips of the leaves are curling a bit, but the ten i put in the bigger pots are recovering really fast so with luck this wont stunt these guys all that much. next batch im using bigger pots and less vermiculite.
Today i had several goals, go to my old coldframe site, and get all the soil i stashed there, as well as fence and cups and bags and shovels and tarps and all that junk. then i had to make 3 plots by using one bag of soil to fill 2 grow bags. i was to make 30 bags, then find three plots, lay down root block, and tote the 30 bags out to the swamp, then surround them with fence, transplant plants, water them, and finally, encircle them with a copper ring to ward off slugs.
It took me 6 trips to get all my junk and bring it to the far edge of the forest. i like to take zigzaggy routes as i skirt around the swampy parts and stick to high ground. i step on branches and logs whenever possible to leave as little trail as i can. of course never take the same route twice...On one trip i found this mushroom, it looks kind of like a morel although i don't think it is because it's yellow.
Well mixing the soil with leaves and junk was a lot more work than i anticipated, and i managed to get 10 done in about half an hour.
I went looking deep into the swamp for hidden clearings and found hundreds of perfect little spots of highground surrounded by willow bushes big enough to hide them all summer but far enough away to not shade them, on the other side, 9 foot tall reeds for a quarter mile than a swampy creek. it's the perfect area, and even though there are tons of spots closer, that would take way less work, i have decided on the deapest swampiest most unaccessable spot in the whole forest. with a little luck this will keep them unnoticed all summer.
I layed down some root block and started carrying the ten bags out 4 at a time, the bags really blend in well here, i lost the spot every time and coudn't see it unless i was within ten feet of it. finnally i got them all out there and surrounded by fence, i tucked the handles in and added a little grass for cammo, i will hide the fence much better tomorow.
unfortunatly it was almost completely dark so i took all the plants and put them in the field for the night covered in plastic wrap and fence, except for one plant that was doing particularly poorly, he was planted in the ground in a field by himself just to see if he will survive without my help.
tomorow or the next day i will come and finish my last two plots and get all the plants transplanted to there final plots. then it is just a waiting game for my next seeds to come in the mail...