Thread: In the Garden 2018

Good to see the new garden thread up, thanks TC.

I've got this year's hot peppers started indoors under lights. Germinated the seeds in damp paper towels in a ziplocs on a heat mat. Got very good germination with that method, transferred to solo cups after they hatched. They're on their third or fourth set of true leaves and I'm starting to introduce light nutrients. Lights are plain ol' florescent tubes on a 18 on 6 off cycle with a couple old computer fans rigged up for circulation. I have several varieties going, super hots like Bih Jolokia, Trinidad Scorpion, 7-Pot, CP115, and some that are seeds from open pollinated hot pepper plants so we'll see what they turn out to be. As they get a little bigger I will be pruning the tops off to make them grow more "leaders", develop thicker sturdier stems, and produce more pods.

Still WAY TO COLD to even think about getting anything going here at the Boars Nest. With my little area I can have a tomato plant or maybe a rosemary plant but I don't think that I'll mess with either since I've been gone on my bike rides when tomatoes are coming on and the kids don't seem to want to bother with them.

Hopefully in a couple of weeks I'll be helping a friend out with some sets--Hopefully!

We got a foot of wet snow here yesterday so the garden is a ways off.

Still have purple seed potatoes sitting in a container in the fridge waiting to go in the ground - eventually.

I'm about to start some romaine lettuce, from seed, since it likes the cold, but I won't be able to get it in the ground till I'm clear of frost. In the mean time, I'll get some bell pepper seeds started. Cherry tomatoes will come in on their own. Haven't had to plant a tomato plant, since the first one. I just rotate last year's plant into the ground, and thin out the ones I don't want, after the thirty or so come up the next season.

My garden is only 13' X 15', and last year's tomato plant took over a third of the garden, with fruit the size of golf balls.







Hopefully I don't break my ankle again, ended up giving away most of my peppers, they were well into maturity once I got back on my feet again.



Just had to post some garden porn, can't wait to see how this years garden is going to do.

OH ya, some good looking peppers Mike. We don't start lettuce in Door's like most of our plants, it,ll be in the ground in a couple of weeks, and we'll have lettuce to eat by the middle of or late April. We are not as far south as some but our beds are set up if a plant is up and in danger we can run our plastic roof over t on hard freeze nights. We don't get many after March but you never know so it's something we did when we built the beds. Can't wait to get them maters! Tc

Speaks for itself.

Frozen up here for another month, at least. But I will be setting up a small bed this season as well. Possibly raised, still to be determined..
Cheers men.