🌱Growing With Ben🌱 ~ The Chonicles of the Troublesome Seeds

[All4Eggz]

Those that grow dill…

• R2elk
• NatJ
• Ursuline Chick
• BirdsBeesTrees
• Fuchsia
• Sally PB
• Apullen
• Iluveggers
• Little Baby Bean
• WIchickMama
• NC_Quail
• AmeraucanaHank
• Tookie
• Egger4me
• Chicken Quest
• Unwittingchickenlady

Curious if all of you use it to make pickles? What are your recipes for making pickling cucumbers?

We use the dill to pickle cucumbers and we also use it in borscht and soups.

 

[All4Eggz]

I saw the peppers from the garden and thought, why the heck not?

Are these seeds viable? How do I go about germinating them?

I saw a video where someone used an empty plastic strawberry container when planting them to get the greenhouse effect. They say it will germinate in a couple weeks after planting and watering regularly.

I think I’m going to try this. I’ll replant when the plant gets too big for the strawberry container (is that a good idea?).

@R2elk @NatJ

 

[All4Eggz]

Unless you plan on keeping them inside, it is the wrong time of year to be starting vegetable seeds. I start my pepper seeds about the 2nd weekend in March, I plant them in Jiffy Strips , about 4 or 5 seeds per cell. Takes about 10 to 14 days for them to germinate. Once they are up and getting tall I transplant each plant to a 3" Jiffy Pot .

After the roots are well developed I transplant them to one gallon plastic pots. After it is past the last frost I transplant them into the garden about the 1st of June.

You can grow pepper plants indoors with sufficient light and a big enough pot. I currently have 3 plants in the greenhouse that need a longer growing season than I have available. They are in 3 or 4 gallon pots now.

Thanks. I will keep them inside then.

By the time spring rolls around, I think they’ll be ready to be transplanted to the garden… or my neighbor’s sunroof. The sunroof still gets cold in the winter, but not as cold as the outside, obviously. Will that’s plant do fine if I move it in the greenhouse during winter (**only if it gets too big to keep in the house)?

 

[All4Eggz]

It will die if the temperature gets down to freezing.

King Arthur Bell pepper inside.
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Curious, what is the purpose of the foil covering 1/3 of the pot?

 

[All4Eggz]

Wondering if these are sprout-able?

I’m guessing they’re not?

 

[All4Eggz]

x2 on it being citrus - I have a couple of lemons I grew from seed that look very similar.

How did you get your lemons to grow faster?
Mine have looked the same for months. I can see activity (bark forming, leaves dying) but not much growth and I don’t know what to expect.