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And so it begins...
Mar. 27th, 2011 10:32 amBell pepper and tomato seeds went into the starter tray this morning.
Four kinds of tomatoes: Aunt Ginny's Purple, Mountain Fresh, Siberian, and Tommy Toe. The Siberian is supposed to do well in cooler weather, so I may put that in the ground a week or two earlier than the others. It's supposed to fruit a little more quickly as well, so maybe I'll have first tomatoes in July instead of August. The other varieties are various levels of early or late blight resistant. I'll put a layer of mulch over the plants after I transplant them to prevent the spores splashing up during watering, and hope for the best.
Three kinds of bell peppers also went into the tray: red, purple, and chocolate. Not sure if I will have the room to plant any other varieties. Next month I will start the lettuce and broccoli raab in the ground. The basil garden, I will start in deck pots.
Everything is drying out and greening up, and they're talking about a snowstorm midweek, dammit. I am so over winter. I hope they're wrong.
Four kinds of tomatoes: Aunt Ginny's Purple, Mountain Fresh, Siberian, and Tommy Toe. The Siberian is supposed to do well in cooler weather, so I may put that in the ground a week or two earlier than the others. It's supposed to fruit a little more quickly as well, so maybe I'll have first tomatoes in July instead of August. The other varieties are various levels of early or late blight resistant. I'll put a layer of mulch over the plants after I transplant them to prevent the spores splashing up during watering, and hope for the best.
Three kinds of bell peppers also went into the tray: red, purple, and chocolate. Not sure if I will have the room to plant any other varieties. Next month I will start the lettuce and broccoli raab in the ground. The basil garden, I will start in deck pots.
Everything is drying out and greening up, and they're talking about a snowstorm midweek, dammit. I am so over winter. I hope they're wrong.
