Pepper Plants AWAY!

Well...
Planted a 72 seed group of Mixed Hot Pepper seeds. Hopefully these things will all do good. I know it's early but I think these plants will grow slow enough to be okay. It's a salsa mixture.

Pail Tomatoes - Start to almost finish

Here's a few photos of my pail tomatoes. The start (on ground) and then in full "bush" hanging upside down.

Ready for Spring Tulips anyone?

This is a photo of last years Tulip/spring flower crop. Original from my Dad and enhanced by myself. I can't wait till they come up this year.

Morning Glorys

These are two pictures of some morning glorys I started inside and once they were around 2 inch I moved them outside. A Before and after picture.

Strawberry Petunias

This is a picture of my oldest sons plant. We bought a package of seeds he thought was pretty. Started them inside around february, they didn't do that good inside. Once moved outside, and water/fed properly they went crazy and bloomed in such beauty. I saved the seeds from the plant last year, and have already started them this year. A package of 15 pelletized seeds for this plant cost $2.00 last year. This year I have probably $30 worth of seeds. They are growing great in three different pots. 2 will be given to relatives for spring/easter presents.

Jalapenos?

This is one of our Jalapeno plants from Bonnie Plants. I was hit by frost but came back. I cannot believe how GOOD fresh jalapeno peppers taste. I've never ate anything hot before, these peppers were so tasty. We stopped making chili with "chili pepper" seasoning. Since these plants we only use jalapeno and serano peppers.

Baby Cucumbers

This is the first pic of what our cucumbers looked like when I transplanted them last year. They grew like crazy once established. BUT not even half way into the growing season (August 08), these plants died out due to beetles. I failed to recognize the bug (I did see them) and once I learned about them - the plants were already on the way out with scaley leaves. A hard lesson learned. This year WILL be different. I'm already planning on the insecticide/copper dust to help keep them healthy.

SQUASH

This is one "crop" that did OUTSTANDING last year. We had too much squash last year. We gave over 1/2 of it away. I knew it would be easy to grow, but this stuff is like a weed... 12-15 plants produced probably 100lbs of squash. I actually let a couple squash and zuchini just grow to see how big it would get. It got HUGE, almost 3 foot long and 12 inches around!! I thought it was cool.

Tomato Forest

How could I ever see the tomatoes through this forest. This is last years plot. I had TOO many plants far too close together. One plant got some fungus/disease and it spread through the whole patch. There was 45 plants in the patch and tomatoes that looked rotten. This year will be completely different. Farther apart and fewer. You can see the lettuce in the background.

Let-us

This is last years lettuce. Its a mixture of black simpson and butter crunch. The butter crunch didn't do that well. Plus the wife wanted the black simpson more. I didn't like it because once it was cut - it bolted. I think it was because she cut it too early.

Leggy tomatoes kill :(

Well I had about 12 tomato plants that were growing in some peat pots but they've apparently missed some of the artificial light that I've been providing them, they had become leggy and I have no time for plants that are not perfectly healthy this year. (Last year I had about 30 leggy ones) So far there are three AG Cherries doing great in the garden, and five extra ones from the kit that I transplanted within a week of sprouting, I ensured that they remained under the AG Light source for the light, then moved them out once they were strong enough under other lights. The pepper plants as I stated yesterday are going great. I planted one early girl today. I placed it in a peat pot on the AG platform so it could receive the same warming light. Once it get up and out and it strong I'll move that to the other light. I hope this one will be the earliest in the county.

Spacemaster??

This is the same spacemaster from yesterday that apparently has felt like growing like crazy overnight. I've now separated the two of them in preparation of transplanting them into a large 3-5 gallon pot. Once there I believe they will thrive better. This one in the picture has decided to push some roots through the corner of the peat pot trying to expand itself. Time for a move...

Here come The Cherries!!

This is another picture of the Red Heirloom Tomatoes I started on 3 JAN 2009. They're doing great.

Got Cukes?

These are some "Spacemaster" Cucumbers that I started about two weeks ago. I think I need to get them into a big pot and give them a bright light. Hopefully they'll do okay.

Lettuce in 2 Days?

Yup! This is some Little Gem lettuce from Burpee which has started to sprout in 2 days. Once placed into the AG pod - I soaked the pod with a blank needle full of the fluid from below. Two days later it's sprouting, only 43 more till harvest time!

One of the Cherry Red Heirloom Tomato Plants from the AG Kit.

Baby Pepper sprout

This is a photo of a tiny Jalapeno Pepper Plant after it was started in my Aerogarden and then transplanted into Jiffy Germination dirt
and fed with vegetable liquid plant food.

In the beginning I never thought I'd grow anything..

After one year at trying to grow a garden with minimal success, I'm trying my luck at an Aerogarden. Picture will follow.