2023-01-22: Sensors and Seed Starting

Sunday, January 22, 2023

High: 47
Low: 36
Partly cloudy, rain in the morning
  • Did some more research and added it to the gardening calendar page
  • Went to Jesse Israel and got a bunch of seeds and two bags of propagation mix
  • Started the process of germinating 17 different types of seeds. Let the experimentation begin.
  • Set up the seed heating mat
  • Got the two sensors and put one in the crawl space, and one outside where the raised beds are. Super happy about this purchase. I installed an app that shows the readings and will start using this to track the actual temperature. I also got a soil thermometer. Here are some findings so far:
    • The temperature in the bed covered with agribon is about 6 degrees warmer than without the cover.
    • The temperature in the crawl space was 50 degrees, when it was 48 degrees outside. I think this was the cause of the fig tree damage. We didn't have the A/C running while we were out of town when that freeze hit, so it likely could have been under 20 degrees in there at some point.
  • Bagged some more dirt from the mound in the evening with Hayley









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