What did you do in the garden today?

[Liz Birdlover]

Beautiful rise on that sourdough!

Anyone motivated to try their hand at sourdough, go to the baking thread (Any Home Bakers Here?) and let it be known you are interested. Our resident sourdough expert, @ronott1, will gladly send you a dried starter with instructions. Most of us over there are baking with his starter and loving it. He will also send you the history of his starter.

Can you share that link?

 

[Liz Birdlover]

Duh! I should have been able to figure that out!

I'm not good at those abbreviations either, but my DH is worse. I abbreviate in texts & he didn't know "abt" was "about" & I'm wondering how long he pondered that one before he told me, as he Never likes to ask.

 

[Liz Birdlover]

I miss morels. Best mushroom out there for frying.

I've never had them. Seems like Portobello is the most available type in this area.

 

[Liz Birdlover]

@WthrLady - daaayum!

https://twitter.com/x/status/1783949373660971141

Whoa...and people were still driving TOWARDS IT??? Hello, wake up! Are y'all insane?

There's a lot to see in this world. That's one I prefer Not To.

 

[CatInTheHenHouse]

The cayenne pepper seeds I got from the seed library didn’t sprout after two weeks, at a guess they were just too old. I got a new(er) packet and plan to plant them this weekend. If those don’t sprout either I may have to (gasp, shock, horror) actually buy some.

Collected a little mess of strawberries

Nice! The wild ones around me are just in bloom now, and the domestic ones I planted aren’t even doing that yet.

 

[Liz Birdlover]

About nemotodes...at my old home I bought some beneficial nematodes & applied to the back section of my yard, where I grew vegetables. Along with the combination of some rich soil (got 3 pickup truck loads from Kennett Square mushroom houses & tilled it in, also building up an area that usually became a huge rain puddle). Along with pigeon manure, I had some amazing soil! Everything grew green & lush, even the nearby grass grew a deep green & twice as fast as the front yard. I'm ordering some beneficial nemotodes.

https://www.naturesgoodguys.com/collections/beneficial-nematodes

Good nemotodes & bad nemotodes

 

[Sally PB]

The cayenne pepper seeds I got from the seed library didn’t sprout after two weeks, at a guess they were just too old.

Peppers are POKEY!! Hot peppers even more so. I'd give them 3 weeks, at least.

I've had some sprout after 4 weeks. Probably the soil was too cool; they're picky. And pokey.

 

[jerryse]

Yesterday was rain and chilly. Chance of rain through Monday. Upper 70s. 10 day forecast no frost. Think I will plant squash and cucumbers. If it does frost I am just out some seed.

 

[Smokerbill]

Peppers are POKEY!! Hot peppers even more so. I'd give them 3 weeks, at least.

I've had some sprout after 4 weeks. Probably the soil was too cool; they're picky. And pokey.

Yep. The ideal temperature for sprouting pepper seeds is 80-90 degrees. My house runs around 65 degrees so I mounted a 60 watt incandescent bulb below the shelf holding the pepper tray to warm them up when starting them.

Since peppers are perennial plants, I plan to plant a couple in 5 gallon buckets this year, one jalapeno and one sweet bell. I'll bring them inside to overwinter, then set them back outside in 2025.

https://peppergeek.com/overwintering-pepper-plants/

 

[CatInTheHenHouse]

Peppers are POKEY!! Hot peppers even more so. I'd give them 3 weeks, at least.

I've had some sprout after 4 weeks. Probably the soil was too cool; they're picky. And pokey.

Sure, I can give them another week. And actually I can start the new seeds separately and if I end up with a ton of hot pepper seedlings…I love spicy food so that’s a good problem to have.