Amkuska's 2025 Garden

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By "Audrey's" – is that a reference to the kid's teevee cartoon, @ducks4you ? Audrey as a name choice must be starting over. They seemed to be all older than me. "Karen," I'm disappointed that it has come to have negatively entangled. I like that name.

DW and I were overwhelmed with just 8 tomato plants in 2024 with 1 of the 8, a volunteer cherry. They all came on late so there was only a short time to enjoy them fresh. Too much wind, some were even damaged by being beaten around.

Then, the plants recovered — boy, did they! Anyway, the freezer filled up.

Steve

 

[ducks4you]

Nope,
"Audrey" is the meat eating plant from "Little Shop of Horrors."

 

[ducks4you]

Btw, it is reminiscent of the Venus Fly Trap.

Venus Fly Trap (Dionaea muscipula) | U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service

Image Details Venus flytrap is a perennial plant that blooms year after year in May and June. Their flowers are on stalks 8 to 12 inches tall and well above the trap shaped leaves so they don't catch the same species of insects that come to pollinate their flowers. Photo by Dale Suiter, June 15...

www.fws.gov

 

[flowerbug]

Btw, it is reminiscent of the Venus Fly Trap.

Venus Fly Trap (Dionaea muscipula) | U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service

Image Details Venus flytrap is a perennial plant that blooms year after year in May and June. Their flowers are on stalks 8 to 12 inches tall and well above the trap shaped leaves so they don't catch the same species of insects that come to pollinate their flowers. Photo by Dale Suiter, June 15...

www.fws.gov

i once hand-pollenated some flowers in a terrarium of VFs, it worked and i had seeds ripen. they look like tiny little eggplants. i went on to sprout them and started to grow them and we went on vacation. i asked my sister to keep an eye on them to make sure they didn't dry out. came home to them being very tiny black threads (aka very dried out and completely dead). end of that experiment...

 

[AMKuska]

Nope,
"Audrey" is the meat eating plant from "Little Shop of Horrors."
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OMG @ducks4you I am dying laughing! I missed the reference too. I looked up "Audreys" and there's actually a tomato variety by that name. I thought you were just saying you kept trays of tomatoes that go crazy too!

This is HILARIOUS and exactly what my husband is envisioning happening in my grow tent! I can't stop laughing!

 

[Vanalpaca]

April or May. I have not yet figured out what I am doing wrong, but they grow so slowly. A pepper plant might only be 6" tall by the time they get set out. I've tried different types of potting soil, watering with fertilized water, not using any fertilizer at all, potting up, not potting up--things just don't grow that well for me. :-/

Try starting them in double solo drink cups 18-20 oz size. Put a piece of rock the size of a marble in the bottom cup. Cut holes in the bottom of the top cup to drain. Pepper's need 80-85 degrees to germinate in a week. May take a month at 70 degrees. I trim off the nipple barely on the pepper seed and soak it for a couple days in a wet paper towel inside a ziplock baggie. Check at 3 -4 days and should be sprouted if it was warm. The double cup method gives the roots a place to go once the plant gets big enough. Also, be sure the potting soil you are using to start them in drains well and dries up a bit over a couple days. I have found waterlogged soil with the new bags. They are putting a wetting agent in them and it's drowning the roots. You can also start a new tomato plant with cuttings...