What did you do in the garden today?

[CatInTheHenHouse]

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.

I tried bringing some inside last year. The last one died a week or so ago. Might have been a space issue, I had three per pot (my gardening space is lacking).

 

[Smokerbill]

I tried bringing some inside last year. The last one died a week or so ago. Might have been a space issue, I had three per pot (my gardening space is lacking).

I just added this link to my previous post that details how pepper plants can be overwintered. I've never tried it before myself.
https://peppergeek.com/overwintering-pepper-plants/

 

[Acre4Me]

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.

@CatInTheHenHouse - very true. Peppers benefit from being sprouted on a heat mat or on a warm surface, or noticeably warm room. I use a heat mat, and even then, it takes awhile.

 

[Sueby]

There’s a stream/ aqueduct running very near my peach tree. I believe that may have a big influence on the health of my tree.

I bet, I hear they like a lot of water. Your tree looks so good, I'm jealous. Mine is year 3 so it was a heavy prune to get the 4 scaffold branches set up, & then of course the really badly timed frosts. Next year will be better.

We were infested with storm chasers today. I had to redirect two, on my country road, one was lost, the other was trying to stay on pavement only. LOL !HA! Pavement.

I feel like a storm chaser should never be lost. Seems to me like they need a new job, or hobby.

I got all the frost protection stuff picked up.

Same, I'm done covering that tree. Everything is packed up & put away. We got down to 28 last night, the magic number for peach blossoms but it wasn't for long & we had no actual frost.

I just saw this and it got me thinking and wondering!
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I saw that yesterday too! I'm going to try planting my pepper seeds that way - they always get helmet head.

Super nice out there, going to go out & do something in the garden, not sure what! Clean up a couple more beds & plant more stuff probably.

 

[Sueby]

@CatInTheHenHouse - very true. Peppers benefit from being sprouted on a heat mat or on a warm surface, or noticeably warm room. I use a heat mat, and even then, it takes awhile.

I've had peppers take a month to sprout - even on a heat mat! I hate starting peppers, lol.

 

[WthrLady]

Oh they get lost all the time-storm chasers. Especially when they come here from places that have non stop cell service. They get lost by me all the time because this is well service drops. I find them in the road, in the service road, on the driveway. They park and try to figure out where their service has led them, and try to figure out where to go next and how. LOL They literally ask, 'where am I and how do I get to XXX"
Cracks me UP.
Anywho....anyone that wants to see more Nebraska tornado video, YouTube is packed with them today. That shows you how thick they were here yesterday and today.
That said, I'm going to go put 10 miles on the bike before we start all over again. today I WILL remember to eat meals before the weather starts.
No gardening except watering tomato seedlings. I've lost about 10 of the 80 due to a fast wilt. Weird.

 

[Smokerbill]

Oh they get lost all the time-storm chasers. Especially when they come here from places that have non stop cell service. They get lost by me all the time because this is well service drops. I find them in the road, in the service road, on the driveway. They park and try to figure out where their service has led them, and try to figure out where to go next and how. LOL They literally ask, 'where am I and how do I get to XXX"
Cracks me UP.
Anywho....anyone that wants to see more Nebraska tornado video, YouTube is packed with them today. That shows you how thick they were here yesterday and today.
That said, I'm going to go put 10 miles on the bike before we start all over again. today I WILL remember to eat meals before the weather starts.
No gardening except watering tomato seedlings. I've lost about 10 of the 80 due to a fast wilt. Weird.

People have pretty much forgotten about paper roadmaps. You'd think storm chasers would carry them as backup to their phones.

I did some recreational storm chasing when I lived in Hutchinson, KS. I drove around for hours looking for funnel clouds and tornadoes the day after Greensburg got wiped off the map back in 2007. There were LOTS of vehicles on the country backroads that day, mostly cars and trucks, but also a couple vans with satellite dishes on top. I saw a few funnel clouds that day but none touched the ground.

 

[Sueby]

Oh they get lost all the time-storm chasers. Especially when they come here from places that have non stop cell service. They get lost by me all the time because this is well service drops. I find them in the road, in the service road, on the driveway. They park and try to figure out where their service has led them, and try to figure out where to go next and how. LOL They literally ask, 'where am I and how do I get to XXX"
Cracks me UP.
Anywho....anyone that wants to see more Nebraska tornado video, YouTube is packed with them today. That shows you how thick they were here yesterday and today.
That said, I'm going to go put 10 miles on the bike before we start all over again. today I WILL remember to eat meals before the weather starts.
No gardening except watering tomato seedlings. I've lost about 10 of the 80 due to a fast wilt. Weird.

People have pretty much forgotten about paper roadmaps. You'd think storm chasers would carry them as backup to their phones.

It just sounds so scary to me - to be lost on a dead end, dirt road while a tornado is coming with no cell service or map! LOL I'm such a chicken I guess, I'd be hiding in the basement instead.

Got the last 2 beds cleaned up & planted with nasturtiums & cosmos. Need straw put down. Got some borage planted in the outside perimeter of the garden. Tried to flood out what ever critter is still living here (old pic from last fall, bed is cleaned but critter is still there). The dog really wants in there to get whatever it is but the bed is all ready to plant so no can do Patrick.

 

[WthrLady]

It just sounds so scary to me - to be lost on a dead end, dirt road while a tornado is coming with no cell service or map! LOL I'm such a chicken I guess, I'd be hiding in the basement instead.

Got the last 2 beds cleaned up & planted with nasturtiums & cosmos. Need straw put down. Got some borage planted in the outside perimeter of the garden. Tried to flood out what ever critter is still living here (old pic from last fall, bed is cleaned but critter is still there). The dog really wants in there to get whatever it is but the bed is all ready to plant so no can do Patrick.
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OH, you're growing puppies! Here, I thought they came up head first.
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OMG there's a woodpecker in my roof gutter. That's got to stop, right now.

 

[WthrLady]

You would think.
But many just DRIVE and if you don't know where you are, a map isn't going to help you.
Honestly, many out there don't have a brain in their heads anyway, there out there for the clicks and the thrill, no matter what they claim about public safety. When a tornado is in open country, radar can see it, so can the farmers that call them in.
When it's in a populated are, everyone can see it, and they know where it is. Heck, even the TV stations here yesterday were just using the freeway cameras LOL.
I saw too many fly by video people blowing stop signs, driving on the wrong side of the road, illegal passing, dangerous U-turns, driving on the shoulder to pass, etc yesterday, all on their own videos that it just makes me so ...grrrrrr
Personal rant over.
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tomatoes almost to the point of potting up into the next size cup. The wilt seems to be predominately the Federle tomatoes, maybe it a bad genetic bit. who knows.