Posted on 02/28/2014 12:35:18 PM PST by greeneyes
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Do they keep their color when cooked ?
The rebel, outside, sitting on the new tobacco plot. Imagine 50 or 60 of those on 2 foot centers. ;)
Shovel shown for scale.
As the bottom leaves get damaged since it's in the house, those have been getting cut off, and hung up to dry.
/johnny
I hope so! This is the first time I will plant them, so it’s going to be interesting!
Here is one of your pictures. I guess this is your seed starters. Much neater than mine. I'm a messy gardener.
/johnny
The cucumbers I transplanted, look perkier today as they looked flat yesterday, but they aren't as great looking as they were before transplanting in their final containers.
Looked at the Egyptian Walking Onions a bit ago and they are standing straight up and looking strong. Darn, that reminds me I have 80 onions bulbs to plant and I'll use some of the black two gallon pots for that. I can't plant 80 bulbs but the price was so good I bought them anyway - $1.68 for 80 bulbs! I'll get as many as I can planted tomorrow. If all my onions produce, I guess I need to can onions - anyone canned straight onions with nothing else in the jar? Hmm, pickled onions?
The other types of onions transplanted into their final pots look good and the tomatoes look good. The blackberry sticks are growing limbs/leaves fast. The strawberries are growing parts to be flowers. Every plant out there says it is spring. Still have smaller plants in greenhouse that are not grown enough to put in big pots.
Have 21 Dixie cups with seeds in them under the grow lamp. I think I need MORE large pots, at least more 2 gallon ones. I have more types of tomatoes under the grow lamp and they will take up most of the big pots I still have empty.
I'll have fingerling potatoes coming about the middle of March.
I had a stir fry today made from veggies I cut up yesterday with the Mandoline.
Nice!
/johnny
Most of this produce was started Jan 20.
I am sorry about your sinus infection. Dry, cold air is hard on them. I am filling small pots of water and putting them on every heat register, and still having problems. The fever may be from the infection. I have a recipe for nose spray that helps, though, when winters are extra cold, I still stay at borderline infections. I will post the recipe, if you would like. Do know- I am not a doctor, nor play one on TV. (grin) Oh... A mist humidifier helps a little.
My seeds are waiting. Planner mapped out. Snow and frozen ground have me instead getting ready to dye a few tubs of wool and lockerhook some area rugs. Meat is on sale, I will be making and pressure-canning some meatballs. I do not do boredom very well.
We are adding chickens, and maybe ducks. A win-win venture and will not break our budget. Meat and eggs, free manure and they love bugs.
This is a piece of equipment that arrived this week. I'm going to keep it inside for at least a part of the winter, and wheel it out on the deck during the warm months.
This is not my kitchen. :)
Eric's peppers, it looks like.
/johnny
The soil mix was sterilized in cooking bags and trays were sterilized with a 10 percent bleach solution.
We've added heating pads and plastic trays from WalMart. Grow lights and fixtures are from Lowes.
It’s my understanding that they love to eat ticks. That would be a blessing here, but we have no one to care for them when we go away. I don’t think that the dog kennel would take them.
Excellent technique. You really know what you’re doing.
/johnny
Poblanos aren’t too hot, but “Trinidad Scorpion” peppers? They must be something.
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