Lost all my pepper plants, bell & jalapeno. Low temps at night (low 40’s). Leaves all fell off. Cukes are looking pretty bad as are some small cherry tomato plants - fingers crossed they’ll pull through. I’ve bought replacement pepper plants & transplanted them from 4-packs to individual peat pots. This will give them a little room to grow while I wait for better weather. They’re looking pretty happy right now.
My Celebrities (which were about a foot tall when I bought them) are doing fabulous, despite the weather. One is blooming - not sure if it will set fruit until it warms up a bit more - should have nights above 50 after tomorrow.
I’ve started flowers in peat pots - tithonia, giant sunflowers, marigolds. I sowed some seeds directly in a flower bed a while ago (tithonia) & zero came up. The peat pots are working a lot better - most of the seeds have germinated & for those that did not, I replanted seeds yesterday.
Chilly night last night - first fire in the new fire pit at the garden. It was fabulous - could see the stars, some good wine, good company.
Oh, no! Sorry for your veggie losses! At least you still have enough growing season left to recoup your losses.
I’m getting the beds ready to receive and placing tomato cages, etc. but I’m not putting anything tender out until at least the 21st of May, which is a week earlier than I usually do. I have salad greens, spinach, kale, broccoli and cauliflower planted. Everything needs a drink, today. It’s been very dry.
My ‘Critter Trouble’ seems to be an opossum and not a racoon. He showed up last night after I had taken in the feeders. My Beagle went out and barked at him for a while, but the opossum held his/her ground! All of the feeders were in, so if he/she wanted to clean up any spilled seed on the ground, that was fine with me! :)
It was pretty big, so it could be a pregnant Mama or a male. We couldn’t tell, and if the dog knew, he wasn’t saying, LOL!
You are in Alaska? That sounds warm for there!
Re: Our Critter Control issues...
The Presbyterian church called a meeting to decide what to do about their squirrel infestation. After much prayer and consideration, they concluded that the squirrels were predestined to be there, and they should not interfere with God’s divine will.
At the Baptist church, the squirrels had taken an interest in the baptistry. The deacons met and decided to put a water-slide on the baptistry and let the squirrels drown themselves. The squirrels liked the slide and, unfortunately, knew instinctively how to swim, so twice as many squirrels showed up the following week.
The Lutheran church decided that they were not in a position to harm any of God’s creatures. So, they humanely trapped their squirrels and set them free near the Baptist church. Two weeks later, the squirrels were back when the Baptists took down the water-slide.
The Episcopalians tried a much more unique path by setting out pans of whiskey around their church in an effort to kill the squirrels with alcohol poisoning. They sadly learned how much damage a band of drunk squirrels can do.
But the Catholic church came up with a more creative strategy! They baptized all the squirrels and made them members of the church. Now they only see them at Christmas and Easter.
Not much was heard from the Jewish synagogue. They took the first squirrel and circumcised him. They haven’t seen a squirrel since...
WE jhad to wait until yesterday (west Michigan) to put in tomatoes. Temps look good from here on out. I did get 2 celebrity and one cherokee purple based on people here liking them and finding some for sale too.