AngelsGarden's Blog

~~Windy~~
Mar 19, 2008 | 2:55 PM PST
Tags: Wind , hot peppers , sweet peppers , transplanting , eggplant , Verbena , Calla Lily

It has been really windy since Monday.  So I really haven't done alot outside.  But I still have been gardening. 

Sunday evening I started transplanting my hot peppers, sweet peppers and eggplant.  The cell packs that I started them in were too small.  Some of them had started getting a little topsy turvy.  The roots had pretty much filled the small soil space that they had.  I put most of them into 3 inch pots.  I think this is silly for me to be doing all of this transplanting.  Next year I will do things a tiny bit different.  I think that I will start out with 3 or 4inch pots, plastic or peat, then when I seed I will only fill it about 2/3 full of soil.  Then if the stem needs a tiny bit of extra support when they get a little bigger, I can add a small amount of soil if needed.  If that works then I won't have to transplant them and disturb the roots unneccesarily.  I am almost done with the transplanting, (I have been doing a few at a time), I only have a few eggplant seedlings left to transplant.

Eggplant Babies

Hot Pepper Babies

Sweet Pepper Babies

 

I did get outside yesterday afternoon to put in the flower seeds before the rain.  I mixed up a bunch of different kinds of seeds that should be about the same height.  I put sunflowers in the back of the area along with some Castor Bean.  In the front I spread the mix.  I am hoping that I will have an area FULL OF BLOOMS.

I also have gotten the last plants that I need to finish the front perennial bed.  I will take before and after photos to compare.  I have made out a list of all the plants that are going to be in the area.  Some are already in place from last year.  For the annual that will be around the edge I chose a pretty verbena.  I am hoping that it does good through the heat of the summer.

20 Pink Verbena Plants in 3 inch pots

My husband has said that he really likes Calla Lilies...they should be a perfect addition to that bed as well.  I love the white spots on the leaves of this variety.

~~~Peppers~~~
Aug 26, 2007 | 12:50 PM PST
Tags: Sweet Bell Peppers , Hot Peppers , Purple Bell Pepper , Anaheim Chili Pepper , Mild jalapeno , Hungarian Wax Pepper , Red Cherry Pepper , Cheyenne Pepper , Jalapeno , Salsa

Last evening I went out into the garden with the scissors and a big bowl, to collect the peppers that were ready.  There were more than I thought there would be!  We want to make some salsa tonight.  So we cleaned and seeded all of the peppers and we will chop and measure when we put the salsa together tonight.  I am glad I planted so many pepper plants this spring.  Now we are thinking maybe we should have more than that next year.

Here is a picture of all we collected.  Green Sweet Bells, Purple/Red Sweet Bells, Anaheim Chili, Mild jalapeno, Hungarian Wax, Red Cherry, Cheyenne and Hot jalapeno.

Here they are all deseeded and ready for salsa making.