I went out to check the 34 onion bulbs I planted in fabric grow bags yesterday to see if watering them had caused the soil to shrink lower on the bulbs and since I planted them with the tops showing, I might need to punch them down just a bit. Can you say “Magic Onions”? They have already started putting up growth SINCE I PLANTED THEM YESTERDAY. They were just bulbs when planted with a bottom and top and now those tops have got growth as tall as 1/2 inch and one is 1 inch and every single one of them did that.
sockmonkey, I went to Park Seed and I’m going to get seed that was developed for containers. There is seed for baby cabbage and I was not going to deal with big cabbage due to my limited space, so I will get seed for baby cabbage suitable for container growing.
I especially want this small sweet pepper (looks like a chili pepper in many colors), as it’s good for canning whole and is good for containers. One customer comment said she cans these using a bread and butter pickle recipe. Here is info on this pepper (25 seeds is $1.00, can’t beat that and there is free shipping today and tomorrow):
http://parkseed.com/sweet-pickle-organic-pepper-seeds/p/05927-PK-P1/
Sweet Pickle Organic Pepper Seeds
Just 2 inches long and packed with sweet flavor, they’re super for salads, garnishes, and pickling!
The red, orange, yellow, and purple fruits look like Christmas tree lights!
The perfect pickling pepper, Sweet Pickle looks as good as it tastes with colorful “Christmas tree light” fruits of yellow, orange, red, and even purple! Now available as Certified Organic seed, this little pepper is so charming that you should plant an extra bush or two in containers just for the eye candy!
These peppers are about 2 inches long, tapering to a blunt end. Thick-walled and very sweet, they hold up beautifully on the plant, and keep their color, shape, and texture nicely when pickled. So appealing as they ripen into warm shades in the sunny garden!
Easy to grow and very heavy-yielding, Sweet Pickle plants reach 12 to 15 inches high and wide — perfect for containers or a low edging around the veggie garden! Or dot them among your sun-loving flowering annuals — they’ll keep some pests at bay, and they look terrific! Pkt is 25 seeds.
Sounds like a winner for sure. Hubby tells me that plants grow in the dark - not in the day. They get all the sun etc needed for growth, but don’t grow till the sun goes down.
I’ve gotten the sweet pickle peppers from Parks. LOVE them! They never made it to pickle though, we ate them mostly and I dehydrated a few.
I ordered some of their asparagus seeds, some ‘sugg’ peanut seeds and some of the $1 seeds with the free shipping.