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To: Pollard
A few of my pea plants are ready to grab onto something.


74 posted on 03/13/2022 8:01:52 AM PDT by Pollard (PureBlood -- https://youtube.com/watch?v=VXm0fkDituE)
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To: Pollard

Lovely peas! What are you using for starting mix?


80 posted on 03/13/2022 9:58:44 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have, 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set. )
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To: Pollard
Cloudy, then gradually becoming mostly sunny, with a high near 65. South wind around 5 mph becoming calm in the morning.

Peas are going in the ground this morning. Been bringing them out for a few hours a day to harden them off. Lost two komatsuma seedlings. The mix in those two cells just doesn't suck up or retain water. Must be mostly coir fibers or something. I did notice some chunks of nothing but fiber in the mix and tried to crumble and mix in with the rest. Guess I'll just pull them out from now on.

I have a 7 foot gate I made that I'm not using so I stuck two t-posts in the ground and wired the gate to it. Both type of peas are bush, 2-3 foot tall but I still like having something for them to cling to so they don't get knocked down in a heavy rain with gusty wind.

Planting the peas out will open up 30 cells for something else. Maters are next in line but I don't need 30 so I'll do some peppers too since those are next in line. Johnny's seed starting date calculator gave me Mar 18th - Apr 8th for maters and Mar 25th for peppers. Thought it was weird that they didn't give a date range for peppers. Oh well, three days early on maters and ten on peppers. Calculator gave me transplanting out date of May 13-20th for maters and May 20th for peppers. Will play that by ear depending on weather.

112 posted on 03/15/2022 6:32:01 AM PDT by Pollard (PureBlood -- https://youtube.com/watch?v=VXm0fkDituE)
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