Got one 15 gallon sprayer. Would have got two but I had already been to Lowes and Walmart. Did good at Lowes as far as not spending too much but at Walmart, got a 12" frying pan(non-stick with no PFOA, cadmium or lead), 9x13 T-fal roasting pan with rack and an air fryer.
Been wanting an air fryer for a while. We have a 12" cast iron skillet but cast iron isn't good for everything. Needed a roasting pan bad as ours is an old super cheapo thing and seen better days.
Got my shade cloth up but need to adjust it.
Mater plants are attached to lean and lower lines hanging from the trellises I made last week.
One third of what I spent at Lowes was for three more mater plants. Cherokee Purple, Black Cherry and an Early Girl just to fill out the 3 for $12(4" pots) which is the sale their having to get rid of end of planting season Bonnie stuff. Regular price is $7 each this year. I gave one plant of each of the three mater varieties I started from seed to my neighbor buddy so this sort of replaces them.
They had a ton of spice plants at Lowes with the same 3-for deal but I'm not getting into all that this year. Just more mater madness and some Shisito peppers and pole beans.
The Early Girl(50 days) will have to hurry to be the early tomato because the Red Deuce(71 days) from the Amish already have maters on them and one of my Chadwick Cherry plants is flowering. The plants I just got from Lowes are small. All indeterminate though which I like for everything but paste tomatoes. Hopefully this Summer won't be quite the scorcher like last Summer was.
I thought I had two varieties of volunteer tomatoes but they're all potato leafed which means they'll all be Brandywine, the only potato leafed I grew last year. Didn't get any last year due to the heat, cracking badly, bugs and general low fruit count so it would be nice to taste one this year. I ate plenty of cherry maters last year until the goats got in there and stomped the plants down. Big buck up and died for no apparent reason a few months ago and I added feed lot panels around the garden so that won't be a problem this year.
The tank sprayer is normally $80 and was on sale for $60. Kinda wish I'd have gotten two. Now I just need that $60 drip irrigation kit. Will be easy to connect to the pump on the tank sprayer as it's just a 3/8" hose and hose clamp.
According to the Q & A for the kit, the output when using all 100 foot of drip line is 50 gallons of water an hour or .83 gallons per minute. The pump on the tank sprayer is 1.0 gallons per minute so it should be just right. In fact, I have about 50 foot of row so I'll either be using half the system or double up on it and run two drip lines on each row with emitter holes offset by half so they're every 6 inches instead of 12.
You got some good deals! My Walmart carries the ‘Bonnie’ plants and the price has really gone UP this season. No Shisito Peppers this year. :(
Also, a new vendor ‘Taylor Farms’ is selling there. They have plants that are further along and in bigger pots (6” it looked like) but they’re asking $6 and up for those!
No one seems to be buying them; I’m in there once a week.
And potting soil! Ugh! Over $8 for a 1 cf bag of Miracle Grow. My greenhouse grown fall-into-winter greens just got a price bump!
Scalping. How can DIRT cost so much more? How can plants?
Glad I start so much of my own.
*RANT OVER*