amateur gardening hour

[edenfalling]

It's about time for a pepper update, yes? I think yes. :-)




Since my last post, one final seed has sprouted. The resultant seedling is still very tiny, somewhat crumpled, and rather uncertain about this whole green-and-growing business. But I have hope!




The others are all starting to grow their second pair of leaves.




The earlier sprouts are logically both larger in general and further along on the "new leaf" project, but the later ones are doing their best to catch up.




Even my poor lopsided one-leafed sprout will be lopsided no longer, as it's growing a single second leaf to balance out the first.




I have given them all one dose of Miracle Gro in their water, and will probably give them another next week -- I don't want to overwhelm them, but growing is hard work and hard work needs fuel. :-)

In other vegetable news, my onion continues to grow splendidly, no thanks to the depredations of local wildlife. (I'm pretty sure it's squirrels, though I will admit the possibility that the new neighbors' cats might also be at fault.) I have given it a little plastic support fence-thingy to help keep it from getting knocked over.



And that is that.

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[branchandroot]

That is an adorable tiny onion trellis.

[edenfalling]

I think I picked it up at a garage sale ages ago, with the intent of providing support for my older schefflera -- this was back when the shefflera in question was a rationally-sized plant and hadn't yet acquired the delusional ambition to metamorphose into a beanstalk. *headdesk* Anyway, it was sitting in a cupboard for a few years to no purpose, but now its little plastic existence has meaning once again. :-)