wherein Liz discusses plants
May. 13th, 2021 10:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
edenfallingSmall gardening update because I do not have the spoons for anything else.
(In summary, work = ALL THE OVERWHELM, GOD LOVE A DUCK WILL YOU PEOPLE RENT APARTMENTS A FEW AT A TIME, NOT ALL AT ONCE. You know what else is currently doing the "everything happens so much" trick? My church Board of Trustees responsibilities. *flumps*)
Anyway, I decided this year to grow six normal bell peppers (turn red when ripe), four Carnival blend bell peppers (turn yellow, orange, white, or purple depending on which specific varietal they are), and four tomatoes as a container garden; assorted zucchini and yellow summer squash down in the garden/raspberry patch; and spinach somewhere or other if I can be bothered.
I start my seedlings in little peat cylinders, for various and sundry reasons. Thus far, I have potted the four jalapenos and two of the tomatoes. The two remaining tomatoes dawdled about sprouting -- one came up six days ago and the fourth will only surface tomorrow (I can see the curve of its stem poking up through the dirt) -- and will not be ready to transplant for a while.
Meanwhile, I really do need to get the bell pepper seedlings into their permanent pots, but the weather has not been cooperating with me. See, I physically do not have the space to keep them all indoors in their adult pots, but they need to be gradually accustomed to outdoor weather (plants, like humans, dislike abrupt shocks) and I haven't been able to manage that since it's been cold and rainy for basically the past two weeks.
But I got everybody outdoors for a couple hours this evening, and I might take them out tomorrow morning and run home during my lunch break to bring them back indoors, and then try that trick again on Saturday. So, you know, progress!
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I am also growing two volunteer cooking onions (by which I mean they sprouted before I could, you know, cook them) but I just chucked them in pots and shoved them outdoors because I don't particularly care about them. So far, one is moderately unhappy but the other seems to be doing all right, and they've only been pawed at a little by the local squirrels digging in hope of buried nuts.
Oh! And I should mention that the zucchini and squash have all sprouted successfully, and if all goes well I should be able to plant them by Tuesday. *crosses fingers*
(In summary, work = ALL THE OVERWHELM, GOD LOVE A DUCK WILL YOU PEOPLE RENT APARTMENTS A FEW AT A TIME, NOT ALL AT ONCE. You know what else is currently doing the "everything happens so much" trick? My church Board of Trustees responsibilities. *flumps*)
Anyway, I decided this year to grow six normal bell peppers (turn red when ripe), four Carnival blend bell peppers (turn yellow, orange, white, or purple depending on which specific varietal they are), and four tomatoes as a container garden; assorted zucchini and yellow summer squash down in the garden/raspberry patch; and spinach somewhere or other if I can be bothered.
I start my seedlings in little peat cylinders, for various and sundry reasons. Thus far, I have potted the four jalapenos and two of the tomatoes. The two remaining tomatoes dawdled about sprouting -- one came up six days ago and the fourth will only surface tomorrow (I can see the curve of its stem poking up through the dirt) -- and will not be ready to transplant for a while.
Meanwhile, I really do need to get the bell pepper seedlings into their permanent pots, but the weather has not been cooperating with me. See, I physically do not have the space to keep them all indoors in their adult pots, but they need to be gradually accustomed to outdoor weather (plants, like humans, dislike abrupt shocks) and I haven't been able to manage that since it's been cold and rainy for basically the past two weeks.
But I got everybody outdoors for a couple hours this evening, and I might take them out tomorrow morning and run home during my lunch break to bring them back indoors, and then try that trick again on Saturday. So, you know, progress!
...
I am also growing two volunteer cooking onions (by which I mean they sprouted before I could, you know, cook them) but I just chucked them in pots and shoved them outdoors because I don't particularly care about them. So far, one is moderately unhappy but the other seems to be doing all right, and they've only been pawed at a little by the local squirrels digging in hope of buried nuts.
Oh! And I should mention that the zucchini and squash have all sprouted successfully, and if all goes well I should be able to plant them by Tuesday. *crosses fingers*
