Tag: peppers

Wander, fertilize, and plant

Got some squash, Romano beans, remaining peas, thinned carrots, asparagus, rhubarb, berries, and a few more sungolds. I planted more beets and carrots in the bed with the old favas. I also planted some more peas on the back side of the pea bed, and the remaining sweet Loraines as a ground cover in the onion bed (I ordered another variety of fava for next year.) I also replanted herbs in pots, fertilized. thanks and put mesclun mix in the empty spinach and corn salad pots. i cut back the lavender and artichokes that were blocking the rock steps. I’m tired.

I’ll prolly start having other tomatoes (plum and Roma) in the next week. Yay!

Finally tomato

Planted a legend, nova, and sungold in south a, and one nova in the lowest new bed. The weather has still been unseasonably cold, but looks like it will only get to 48 degrees a few nights this week.

I moved things around in the greenhouse and planted a plum tomato in one of the larger planting bags. I trimmed the old greenhouse shelves down to get myself another layer.

Some more progress.

Moved the remaining seedlings

Ugh. This spring is the pits. I moved the rest of the squash out to the garden in season starters, but the rest of the summer starts are still hiding in the greenhouse.

Repotted the peppers in the greenhouse, and restarted some ground cherry seeds because ACK they didn’t do well.

Here’s some progress. Nights are still getting below 45 degrees. Ridiculous.

Repotting

I think I have royally failed at growing most seedling this year. I don’t know if it’s bad soil, too many flies, or too much water, or all of that. I took some time to repot everything today to address those things- but it might be moot. Squash and okra look good, though. I have some of those in the greenhouse now.

Here are some more progress shots

A chill…

Whelp, it’s getting down below 50 tonight, so I pulled all the good sized tomatoes and peppers. They’re going in ripening boxes in my office for the time being.

This was an awesome tomato year. I had more slicing tomatoes than ever, tons of sungold from my sungold tree, and a metric ton of novas. The beaver lodge got sad looking, and did best in a container, but I liked that it ripened earliest. (Maybe just one in a a big pot next year?)

The peppers did relatively well- but they stayed small and didn’t redden.

Still giving

Good haul today- tomatoes are still looking ok- we might have some cool weather coming up, so I’ll keep an eye on them. (I’m pulling the tomatoes early to ripen inside, anything orange).

The jalapeños never got very big, but they look plump and healthy. I’ll need to remember to pull them before a cold snap.

Look at this enormous marigold! It’s from whatever seeds I sprinkled last year at the base of the rocks.

Squash are getting powdery mildew. Happens every year. Delicata look established, which is good. Prolly have another week or so of summer squash.

The okra is still going!

Peas, kale, and favas are getting started.

Looks like it’s almost grape time- we’re going to make jelly this year.