{"id":535,"date":"2021-05-07T08:48:21","date_gmt":"2021-05-07T15:48:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.auntiepasto.com\/?p=535"},"modified":"2021-05-07T08:48:21","modified_gmt":"2021-05-07T15:48:21","slug":"five-weeks-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.auntiepasto.com\/?p=535","title":{"rendered":"Five weeks later …"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The aerogarden has new seedpods in it. No, nothing bad happened. In fact …<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Dill, parsley, and basil transplanted from the aerogarden<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The plants got so big we were having trouble eating them quickly enough. Well, really, that was the dill. We like dill, but not to the point of eating it every day. So after some consideration, I decided to try to transplant them out of the aerogarden, and reseed it with herbs we eat more quickly. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s recommended when you change out your aerogarden pods to change all your plants at once. I discovered why when I took the plants out. All the roots get tangled together in the bowl of the aerogarden. Trying to add a new plant to an existing root mass would be difficult; it would probably suffer from the competition too much and not thrive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I transplanted the herbs yesterday and started hardening them off this morning. The dill and parsley look like they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re doing very well. I discovered in this process that we have five dill plants. Oops. No wonder we weren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t eating it fast enough. The basil is going through a bit of transplant shock and seemed unsure about the amount of sun it got this morning. I think it will perk back up in a day or two. Fingers crossed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So what\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s in the new aerogarden setup? More basil, because we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll eat it constantly, and it doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t quite grow fast enough for how much we eat. Chives, because we also eat green onions constantly. And thyme, which I do have outside, but it dies back in winter. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d be nice to have some year-round. We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll see how everything does. I understand that most of the plants are supposed to have about a six to eight month lifespan in the aerogarden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Out in the garden itself, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve planted some lettuces and arugula, fennel and beets. We have some arugula sprouts, and some volunteer green onions and garlic chives from last year. The thyme has new green leaves. I wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t sure it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d survive the winter, and I cut it way back on the theory that it wouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t, but apparently it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a stubborn little thing, so good!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s still just a touch cold for tomatoes. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m thinking I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll get to plant some next week, after this last round of storms rolls through. I desperately want some good tomatoes. I may at some point get one of the big aerogardens for tomatoes through the winter, and try out some of the varieties from the Dwarf Tomato Project<\/a> to see how they do in it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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