These pics of my plants were taken yesterday and seeing how I just figured out (I hope) how to work the 'fancy attach' button I can get the pics on. This is the first season I'm trying to cultivate my own vegetables so I've been very experimental but I'm happy with the results so far but I can't help but wonder if they will bear fruit and what they will be like if they do. I guess harvesting is the pinnacle of ones efforts on the farm. Except I don't live on a farm. I live in the suburbs of Athens which is not so bad. Especially these days with the strikes and protests and riots going on down town but normally I get very frustrated with the way it feels sometimes. In flux... not quit the city not quite the country side. Some people enjoy that I suppose. Some might even consider it having the best of both worlds but it can also have the worst of both worlds, right?
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Cayenne Chillis
I have several pots, some in pairs others in 3's or 4's, and 2 pots with a single seedling. I transfered them from their beds when they were about an inch tall. I put the pen to gauge the size... they seem to be growing really slow.
Some more Cayennes still in their nursery beds. I need to get some more soil to put these in or find a home for them!
I planted everything within a month of eachother roughly. The tomatoes love this climate... (there's a Pen in the foreground to gauge relative size)
This is a funny patch... I planted Dill alongside Leeks. I read somewhere that dill is a good natural insect repel ant. It turns out the Dill outgrew the leeks and I'm afraid their is no space in the soil now for the leeks to come into their own. So I can either leave it as it is and have tasty dill and mini leeks, or I could harvest all the dill now and use it to pickle cucumbers then transplant the Leeks to give each room to become fully grown leeks. But I'm having a real hard time deciding and the chances are nature will probably decide for me if I don't make up my mind soon.
I did the same with spring onions with cucumber but none of the cucumber came through and very few of the onions did which leads me to believe I made a mistake there... some dill got in there somehow thou!
I have two bed trays planted a little late in the spring but I am hopeful they will sprout. One has yellow peppers and the other has cherry tomatoes. The problem is that during a washup wile moving things around I got them confused and now I don't know which one has what!
There's Mr. Pen again
More Tomatoes bellow...
Cayenne Chillis
I have several pots, some in pairs others in 3's or 4's, and 2 pots with a single seedling. I transfered them from their beds when they were about an inch tall. I put the pen to gauge the size... they seem to be growing really slow.
Some more Cayennes still in their nursery beds. I need to get some more soil to put these in or find a home for them!
I planted everything within a month of eachother roughly. The tomatoes love this climate... (there's a Pen in the foreground to gauge relative size)
This is a funny patch... I planted Dill alongside Leeks. I read somewhere that dill is a good natural insect repel ant. It turns out the Dill outgrew the leeks and I'm afraid their is no space in the soil now for the leeks to come into their own. So I can either leave it as it is and have tasty dill and mini leeks, or I could harvest all the dill now and use it to pickle cucumbers then transplant the Leeks to give each room to become fully grown leeks. But I'm having a real hard time deciding and the chances are nature will probably decide for me if I don't make up my mind soon.
I did the same with spring onions with cucumber but none of the cucumber came through and very few of the onions did which leads me to believe I made a mistake there... some dill got in there somehow thou!
I have two bed trays planted a little late in the spring but I am hopeful they will sprout. One has yellow peppers and the other has cherry tomatoes. The problem is that during a washup wile moving things around I got them confused and now I don't know which one has what!
There's Mr. Pen again
More Tomatoes bellow...
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jozsef:
Life often involves a great deal of compromise and we must get by with what's available.
kamikaze:
I'm no expert on tomato growing so I looked up a few websites. This by no streach a comprehensive example but it's the best I could find. Your plants look as if all will go well and if you follow her instructions of 1 plant per basket and only plant two there will be no great loss. Hope all goes well.