Italy Pre-trip

Tuesday, 6 September 2011

Well we're leaving in 1 day, here's what i've packed.

Small Backpack

• folder with notes, maps, schedule, train tickets
• 2 camera's and chargers
• phone
• travel pillow
• misc...

Big Suitcase

• power plug adapter and 220v to 110v power converter
• clothes
• shoes
• misc..

My goal is to take as little as possible.

Yesterday Karrie went and exchanged everyone's money into Euros.

The weather looks perfect.

	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat
	Sep 26	Sep 27	Sep 28	Sep 29	Sep 30	Oct 1
High temperature:		81 °F	83 °F	83 °F	82 °F	81 °F	80 °F
Low temperature:		62 °F	61 °F	63 °F	62 °F	61 °F	63 °F
	Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed
	Oct 2	Oct 3	Oct 4	Oct 5
High temperature:	80 °F	79 °F	77 °F	77 °F
Low temperature:	63 °F	63 °F	61 °F	61 °F

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Peanuts

Tuesday, 5 April 2011

While reading about palm trees i learned about growing date palms. And while reading about date palms i learned about growing peanuts. It looked like a cool idea so i bought a bag of RAW peanuts from Walmart.

For peanuts the soil temperature has to be hot for 100-120 days, depending on the type of peanut. Valencia and Spanish peanuts would have been the best here in Michigan because they only need 100 days. But i couldn't find those.

The only raw peanuts they had still in the shell were Virginia peanuts.
So i soaked them for a day and they really swelled up, probably double their original size. I've heard mixed theories about planting them in the shell or without the shell so i did both.

As usual i put them in zip-lock bags. After 3 days the first ones to sprout were two of the seeds that were in their shell.
Here's the original peanut, without the shell and after soaking in water for a day

And 2 days later
After 10 days....It grows really fast.
And since i'm using a clear bowl i should be able to see the peanuts under the ground.

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