I had meant to plant the coffee today, but I neglected to check the packet until I went to check the planting depth and apparently it needs to soak for two days! So I guess that’s going to be a Tuesday thing. At least I got the pot prepped.
I got my pepper seeds started and the first round of tomatoes too:
For later reference:
Yellow toothpicks are Cayenne
Blue are Fish
Red are Ghost
The ones without toothpicks are Silvery Fir Tree Tomatoes
They’re on a heat mat set at 80 degrees currently. The plan is to move the tomatoes into...
The first year yes, I got enough to make cayenne powder for myself for a year. Last year no, but none of my warm weather crops did well last year - too cold all summer.
My cayenne got to be about a foot tall, maybe a bit more, but nowhere near 3-4 feet. I will note that my hanging basket is...
First bean bloom of the year! (With a cameo from a potato.)
I tried growing some jalapeno from a hot pepper blend seed packet. I only got one pepper off of it and it didn’t have viable seeds so I haven’t tried growing them again.
Poppers sounds like an interesting idea though. 🤔
I think...
They’re supposed to have variegated leaves! And the fruits start out striped before ripening to a solid red. I just hope they’ll be spicy enough, I’m used to cayenne.
Hadn’t thought of cooking swiss chard, I was just using it for salad greens (and I can’t remember the stems, so I must have cut those out and put them back in the garden to compost). It did way better for me than kale, and wasn’t as bitter.
Just be careful! I had that problem with my cayenne a few years ago - they didn’t come up after two weeks and I put in new ones and then the first ones came up. 😅 I use a heat mat now to avoid that.
My Iroquois Cornbread beans that I started back in January. They will likely complete their entire life cycle indoors and hopefully give me more seeds to plant outdoors than I started with!