Posted on 03/20/2021 6:49:37 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
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I’m weeks behind you, but I remain hopeful! I have tomatoes and peppers started, inside. I do have lettuces and spinach in my unheated greenhouse for now.
We’re having a really nice weekend - I plan on playing outside as much as possible because RAIN is predicted for a good chunk of next week.
Thanks - looks like it would not be a good idea to plant it outside. I’ll just keep it going inside until it decides to go bye-bye.
PS - Appreciate your good information!
Still waiting for the massive snowpack here to finish melting.
We’ve had very little rain, which is good because otherwise, there’d be lots of flooding, even though it does eat away at the snow pack faster.
I’ve got some seeds started and hopefully will be getting out the next few days to start whatever yard clean up I can.
Yardwork today!
Woo Hoo!
Hi all, daffodils and hyacinths just starting to come up. Things haven’t really greened up outside yet but this next week we will have a nice warm up here in west Michigan. Hubby took the snow blade off the atv so there’s that. I’m doing a new fountain for the birdbath and puttered around in the garage for awhile. I need to get a couple more fittings and I will be all set. Outside hoses not turned on yet. Every year I look forward more to the garden. Hope everyone has a great season.
Glad to help! I’m just happy to still be able to use all of the plant-related information stashed in my head. ;)
“Hubby took the snow blade off the atv so there’s that.”
At our house, that always insures at least one more big snowstorm! ;)
Ah, I used to call that “snow tire psychology”. That was many moons ago when people put snow tires on their cars for the winter. I used it in the sense that when you put them on it didn’t snow and when you took them off it did. I think we are safe here though. Might get a dusting but nothing plowable.
Margaret's:
Carmen:
Big Red:
Alliance:
Habanada. Habanero pepper WITHOUT the heat:
Gourmet:
Baron:
Jalapeno:
The red bell pepper varieties may all LOOK alike, but they all ripen a week or so apart so I'm not completely overwhelmed with peppers all at once.
Bella Rosa:
Grandma's Pick:
Chef's Choice Orange:
Chef's Choice Black:
Chef's Choice Red:
Italian Goliath ('Boy Oh Boy'):
Defiant:
Jaune Flamme ('June Flame'):
Japanese Trifele Black:
La Roma III:
Italian Roma:
Juliet. (For dehydrating/snacking):
SunSugar:
Valentine:
Chocolate Cherry:
I promised Beau Cherry Tomatoes this season. He loves them; I find them to be a PITA to grow and to pick. They will probably all go in 5-gallon stand-alone nursery pots, versus hogging up precious garden bed space. A promise is a promise, I guess. ;)
Look for a very soft paintbrush, and gently stroke the center of each open flower, with your strokes going toward the middle.
Some peppers are even easier, and can be pollinated by just rustling their branches. But if you’re moving the plants in and out without any fruits forming, then yours might need the paintbrush method. Make sure the brush is soft, some of the cheap plastic ones will scratch too much.
Nice pictures!
I’m looking forward to planting, and yet I’m still up to my ears in last year’s harvest. The squash I grew are all proving to be good keepers. I poke them once a week and cook up any that show signs of softening, but I still have about half the butternuts, more than half the shark fins, and one of the two Calabasas left. Technically, the last Sweet Meat could have stored longer, but I was curious and didn’t want to wait.
I’m marking these all as good “hunger gap” varieties. They store long enough to fill the space between the end of winter and the first crops of spring.
We are at the bottom layer of stored potatoes. On our next rainy or cold day I'm going to peel, boil, mash and freeze what's left.
If you ever want to heat the greenhouse in winter. Mine is 8X6 so a 4 foot X 50 foot roll of bubble wrap inside and out will allow for the little heater to keep it above 40 during the winter. Of course winsconsin is way colder. But i did get the idea from some guy in Michigan i think. You do lose the UV so i take the roof wrap off as early as i can.
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Is there a way to tell the male flowers from the female flowers so that pollen can be moved from the male flowers to the female ones, which will eventually bear the fruit?
Beautiful! Mouth watering here. :-)
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