Inside Starts, Yours & Mine

15 INCHES OF SNOW SO FAR!

It isn't supposed to quit until 3am. Why is this so shocking to me? I do live in MinneSNOWta after all.....

My normal commute is about 20minutes. It took me over 45min to get home tonight. The only upside to this is that I have varieties of peppers and tomatoes that I need to replant. I ordered some seed from Trade Winds and none of them did well at all. I reordered from Pepper Joe's and Penny's Tomatoes so we will see what happens. I like my plants to be good and ready before I put them out. My Early Girls, Delicious, and Lemon Boys are HUGE and, if a little (ok, A LOT) warmer, could hold their own outside.

Now I'm off to have some choice words with Mother Nature.....

digitS' said:

HPQ, I hope you have a good safe vehicle.

Steve

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Oh don't worry, I drive a 2003 Buick Regal I refuse to get a newer car because of how well it handles in the snow and it's so comfortable. Over 205,000 miles on that thing! I left the truck with 4WD at home because my car handles that much better.

You should see the look on the worker's face when I pull up to the feed mill in a car to get chicken food. "Put this many bags in the trunk, this many in the back seat, and a couple in the front passenger seat. Gotta distribute that weight."

Anyways....

Twenty more tomatoes and about a dozen peppers left to up-pot, got to run for more soil when the roads clear up. Now if the weather cooperates so I can get them to the porch before I run out of links on the lights! Impatiens are being a little stubborn, but I think I always think that and then they explode. Patience, I guess. One of my best years for peppers, I wish I knew what I did?!

I usually don't start snapdragons quite so early, they are about 4-5" tall, should you pinch them?

@HotPepperQueen - glad you made it home okay!, it was nasty out there! We are just north of 'that line'! Just rain about 6 miles south and we got dumped on, about a foot. It made it a bit easier to do some house cleaning, for Easter company... not sure if there will be an egg hunt or a snowball fight.

I would be happy to have 4-5" snaps right now, Lavender. Some of them are, often I'm setting them out when they are no bigger than that.

That is when I have pinched a few of the especially tall plants. I don't see why it would hurt to do that while they are still in containers. Either way, snaps should "stool out" well after they are in the garden. Stool out is what we would say if they were a grain crop .

I know what you mean about space! I've got the floor of the greenhouse nearly covered with plants! I hardly know why I did that! It's 45° in the unheated hoop house, it can't be a lot warmer on that floor! It sure is dark down there . . . Now I gotta go out in the rain and move them back into the hoop house!

Steve

I put another light in with my starts. Still not enough room. I don't think I will ever have enough room for them all. I just keep growing more and more and more....

I should probably go back and update my list of what I started this year because it is WAY more than what I originally planned. Gotta love those seed sales at the hardware store.

digitS' said:

I would be happy to have 4-5" snaps right now, Lavender. Some of them are, often I'm setting them out when they are no bigger than that.

That is when I have pinched a few of the especially tall plants. I don't see why it would hurt to do that while they are still in containers. Either way, snaps should "stool out" well after they are in the garden. Stool out is what we would say if they were a grain crop .

I know what you mean about space! I've got the floor of the greenhouse nearly covered with plants! I hardly know why I did that! It's 45° in the unheated hoop house, it can't be a lot warmer on that floor! It sure is dark down there . . . Now I gotta go out in the rain and move them back into the hoop house!

Steve

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I started them 3-11, because it's 10-12 weeks to flower. Just the shorter Twinny variety, 12". I had them last year and they were great! Some are 5", a few are 3", but I will start pinching if I can't get them out of my 'too warm' house soon. Even under the lights I've had snaps shoot up and get a bit leggy, but I think that was the taller varieties.

I went a little overboard with the peppers this year, but DH said he can sell them at work. That extra space sure disappears fast! There's always more things I would like to start, probably a good thing I don't have more space!

What are rolly pollys?

Selling 'em is always a good way to go .

Rolly Polies are sow bugs/pill bugs, which I guess are 2different species. What is it - one can roll up and the other can't? Something like that.

Steve
heading out into the rain . . . i don't live where i "understand" rain. will a flannel shirt be okay? sweats?

I feel like I learn things every year. For instance, my tomatoes that are sitting in a planter (each tomato has a biodegradeable pot, sitting in a deep plastic bottom for up from the bottom watering) by a south facing window. You would THINK I would have opened up the blinds enough for DIRECT SUNLIGHT before yesterday?!?!?!? Total, duh...

Here are my first round of tomatoes. Not exactly sure why I started my hybrids in early March when I usually plant the first weekend in June.