Basil

2024-05-13 Seeds

I planted a blend of basil seeds from Pennington gardening company.

The first seedlings started to sprout.

I forgot to water the seedlings and they were noticeably wilted. I gave them a nice soak with the spray bottle, so I wouldn’t disturb the soil too much, and they bounced back.

Most of the plants have recovered from underwatering, but not all. The plants were watered twice using the misting spray bottle and the healthier plants were given water with a very small amount of liquid fertilizer.

The seedlings look bad. I don’t think I packed the seed starting mix hard enough in the trays so it is sinking. It’s also not dense enough to soak up water from the bottom trays and move it up to the seedlings, which have not established their roots deep enough.

I planted 5 of the basil plants in the garden bed with the 2024-03-17 habanada peppers and the 2024-05-13 midnight roma tomatoes. Each plant was placed in a hole sprinkled with edible plant food from Back to the Roots.

I separated the remaining basil seedlings to 1 plant per cell in the 6 cell seed starting trays. This will give them more space to grow their roots until I am ready to transplant them into a new garden bed.

I transplanted about 4 more plants into a new garden bed with the 2024-05-13 batches of sweet prince tomato, midnight roma tomato, habanada pepper, and sweet garleek.

I watered the plants with a new type of fertilizer, Fox Farm Big Bloom, and a Cal-Mag Plus, which is a calcium, magnesium, and iron plant supplement.