What did you do in the garden today?

[BullChick]

 

[pennyJo1960]

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[Acre4Me]

We plant many kinds of long sweet red peppers. We have a favorite: “Super Red Roaster” that we get from Sandhill preservation. Large, sweet, red, decently thick flesh. The Marconi types are also very good and we have been happy with those. I’ll look in my notes to see what other sweet/red Italian types have worked well for us.

@BReeder! the vast majority of our sweet, red, non-bell peppers have come from seed orders.

1. The name above is wrong- it is “Stocky Red Roaster” that we like from SHP.

2. We have ordered pepper seeds from SHP, Burpee, Territorial, and Seed Savers in the past. Good germination and generally good growth. The Marconi types and Stocky Red Roadters have grown the largest in plant size-they can use a large tomato cage, and the largest peppers.

3. Corni del Toro did well for us last year, it was the first year we tried them.

4. Tollis Sweet, Ausilio Thin Skin, Carlo Putini, Chervena Chuska, and Jimmy Nardelo have been good choices. We’ve grown others, but less impressed.

5. The new-to-us peppers for this year, all should be sweet/red, but two are pimento types. The “lipstick” pepper is from Baker Creek, as I cut off the name. The upper left ones are SHP.

 

[igorsMistress]

It looks lovely. I do wish I had your climate over mine. A bit more rain than you get would be nice though still.

Thank you! It’s definitely nice outside right now. Although we’ll see what summer brings. I’m still worried the apple tree won’t make it here before it gets too hot though.

 

[BReeder!]

Thank you! It’s definitely nice outside right now. Although we’ll see what summer brings. I’m still worried the apple tree won’t make it here before it gets too hot though.

If it's small, you can put it in a large pot near a window until the Fall.

 

[chickengr]

we'll have a few cold days in the next 2 weeks. so time to go through the seeds! as I plan to put my house on sale I will plant just a few things in containers that I can bring with me. I have some indeterminate tomato seeds that my mother gave me and yellow pears as well. I also have some bell pepper seeds that are slightly hot and there are a few hot peppers and eggplants in the garden that survived the winter. I am going to plant some spinach as well and transplant curly lettuce I bought just before the cold snap so I didn't dare to transplant them yet.

 

[igorsMistress]

If it's small, you can put it in a large pot near a window until the Fall.

I’ve been considering that very option. I think I could find a spot for it in the shade garden for the season. It’s supposed to be warmer than normal with below average precipitation this summer per the Almanac. We’ll be in the 80s this week already and our last frost day is typically Feb 5th.

 

[igorsMistress]

42 days, ie, 6 weeks to the spring Equinox.

Which sounds longer, 42 days, or 6 weeks?

Hopefully by then, the compost pile will be thawed enough to turn and haul some of it up the the greenhouse to use for starting plants. It'll have to warm up, for sure, but at least it'll be in the right place.

It would be nice if Mother Nature kept a schedule wouldn’t it? Lol.

 

[littledog]

Ooh, goody goody, I just ordered my seeds!

Went way over budget, but my excuse is that Territorial was all sold out of luffas, so I HAD TO go to Baker Creek and while I was there, I saw they had some new melon varieties and some dahlias I've never grown before...so...

It seems like I expand my garden a bit almost every year, but still end up planting more than can really be crammed in. I even reduced my tomatoes to free up a bed for the new melons - I doubt we will run out of last year's tomato sauce, and you gotta keep trying new things, right?

Thank you, to all you fellow gardeners who mentioned ordering from Baker Creek! I love Territorial, but BC has some amazing choices and it may become my new go-to catalog depending on how these new plants do.

It's going to be better than Christmas when the seeds get here in a couple weeks!
We're supposed to get a dry week, so I better get off my butt and build more raised beds.

 

[Acre4Me]

Ooh, goody goody, I just ordered my seeds!

Went way over budget, but my excuse is that Territorial was all sold out of luffas, so I HAD TO go to Baker Creek and while I was there, I saw they had some new melon varieties and some dahlias I've never grown before...so...

It seems like I expand my garden a bit almost every year, but still end up planting more than can really be crammed in. I even reduced my tomatoes to free up a bed for the new melons - I doubt we will run out of last year's tomato sauce, and you gotta keep trying new things, right?

Thank you, to all you fellow gardeners who mentioned ordering from Baker Creek! I love Territorial, but BC has some amazing choices and it may become my new go-to catalog depending on how these new plants do.

It's going to be better than Christmas when the seeds get here in a couple weeks!
We're supposed to get a dry week, so I better get off my butt and build more raised beds.

It’s funny how we can’t get enough, right? We expanded last fall -so this year will be first year to plant that bed…a 20’x30’ bed for which we got a truckload of garden soil. And still I’m always finding seeds that I NEED to try!

This will also be my first year using Baker Creek Seeds. And I also bought 2 melons to try. Here are the ones I picked. Which are you going to try?