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.