Replanting Time
This is week 5 plus of the Moringa Oleifera sprout saga for Spring, 2020. Most of the shoots are now planted into larger pots awaiting the ~8 week point when we will begin planting them into the garden where, Lord Willing, they will grow into beautiful food sources.
These remaining sprouts will be repotted sometime this week also. We ran out of pots so will find some more to plant the balance, although some of these need to grow a bit more. The styrofoam cups we are using to start the seedlings work remarkably well. However, we found they need to have at least one hole in the bottom for proper drainage. This we discovered as the majority of the seeds that never sprouted were in cups with no holes. This could be just coincidence, but we have now poked holes in each cup for the future. And, they are sturdy enough they can be reused.
These sprouts are about eight inches tall and probably should be nipped at the top to encourage more horizontal growth, rather than vertical.
Other sprouts in the greenhouse are also doing well, such as the Apache Sugarcane depicted below.
At this point, they look nothing like sugarcane, more like plain old grass.
Other plantings around the farm are also doing pretty good. This shady spot sports Ivy, which grows really slow, and the Iris shown in an earlier post, living side by side.
The tiller with the new motor installed. Had to mill the new pulley a bit as the new one had a collar on the inside which prevented the shaft from going all the way through, thus not allowing me to align the motor pulley and the tiller pulley. After that, it went on fine and I was able to move it where it needed to be. That would have been the end of it, but the Lord had other ideas. The gear shift decided it would not be moved. This then led me to investigate the gearbox, which I would have just added oil to and put the tiller back in service. I discovered the gearbox was half full of water from sitting so long. After draining the water and refilling with oil, the shifter then worked beautifully.
Praise God for telling us things we have overlooked and guiding us in the right path. If we had not checked the gearbox, it might have led to the tiller failing completely. That might be rather more expensive than a little bit of oil!
We thank our Lord and Savior, Jesus, for His guidance and love. We also pray that YOU will accept His guidance in your life! Have a blest day, and stay safe!