pepper update, Monday 6/27/16

twelve peppers, Monday, 27 June 2016



the smallest pepper (you can do it! I believe in you!)



the second smallest pepper



the two that narrowly escaped death-by-squirrel, now doing fine



funny patch on a leaf that worries me slightly


I watered them yesterday, and then of course today it FINALLY rained. (This has been such a weirdly dry June, I swear.) So here they are, still shiny and damp.

As you can see, the peppers in the two farthest right terracotta pots are not growing nearly as much as the other ten. I think this may be because the further right (aka north) you go on my porch, the more sun exposure you get (because you are farther from the evil mulberry tree), and the pots may retain a bit more heat than the plastic windowboxes. Possibly the soil mix in the windowboxes also causes a difference. (I used most MiracleGro in the pots, whereas the windowboxes are a mix of MiracleGro and Black Gold brands, because Black Gold was cheaper when I bought supplemental bags.)

The previously mauled-by-squirrels seedlings are doing fine now, which is also good news. :)

I am slightly worried by the leaf spot you can see in the final picture -- that's from the second leftmost terracotta pot. I have had issues with leaf-wilt in previous years, mostly during the first couple weeks after I moved my plants outdoors. I will be keeping an close eye on the situation.

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wherein Liz defeats her bookcase

When I moved into my current apartment, I inherited a few pieces of furniture from the previous tenants: a low metal table on the back porch, an octagonal dinner table in the kitchen, and a giant white bookcase in the living room.

I have wanted to get rid of the bookcase for a couple years now. You will notice that it is taller than my doorways, and the only reason it doesn't completely overpower the room is that my ceilings are like twelve feet high. I did a lot of book-pruning last year, and last week I finally got around to moving my comics and manga into my computer room and then moving all my nonfiction from the white bookcase into the two smaller ones near the living room windows which I had thereby emptied.

Now I just need to figure out what to do about my small collection of family photographs and a handful of knick-knacks, and I will be able to get rid of the bookcase! Mwahahahaha!!!

(In this case, that means I need to contact the people running my church's recycling sale and ask them to send somebody with a pickup truck, because there is no way to fit that into my parents' minivan when they visit next week to drop off their own batch of recycling sale donations.)

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