Mini Plant and Garden Tour, Shade Cloth, and Killing Tomato Seedlings

Peppers 

So guys I wanted to give an update.  These are my Peppers we planted, and you can see that right there those popping through are echinacea. They are finally, finally starting to bloom, or rather germinate, and so are my Peppers I’ve got. More and more of those. It is taking a good bit  for my Peppers to germinate, but that’s okay because I typically will not plant my Peppers until Mother’s Day, and we are still a good month away from that (I posted this after Mother’s Day but still incredibly useful).  

I’ll probably start to transplant out soon, pot them up. Then these are my mild Peppers, and these took longer than the hot peppers, see like here’s one. Let me see. Can you all see that? It’s starting to pop up,   and these actually I think I’ve got my first Cubanelle pepper starting to pop up. I had a hard time with them germinating last year, but that’s my emerald green ones are starting to pop up and grow. 

I think I probably put this perlite a little too thick in places but they are coming up, and I’m thankful. And, then in my other tray – this was the second tray that we did of herbs – it had two things of lavender. My Dill as you can see also. The Dills come up like gangbusters so that’s good. And look at my holy basil. It’s started to come up. There’s a new one. 

Now this lavender was not cold stratified, so it has taken quite some time to start getting these little  germinations that are starting to pop up, and most of it is in the Vera lavender. That’s common lavender, but I just try to be careful and every now and then I’ll see one pop through. 

Now my Hungarian  wax peppers that’s my first one, 

so I’m excited that those are starting to germinate, but then I have such sad news. Y’all know I set up a heat mat in the Greenhouse for my tomatoes, and I’m pretty sure I killed most of my tomatoes. I have one there and there’s an Amish paste down there.  

I thought John opened the greenhouse, and he thought I opened the greenhouse – with the heat mat this stuff was so hot it almost burnt my hand. It was hot to the touch. My Snapdragon tray all died   It is pretty devastating to lose your trays of tomatoes,

but now I have a little hope.. Now I still had cherry tomatoes and stuff I had not planted, but this this was a BIG HIT. It should have germinated like four days ago at the least, so wow – nothing. 

But I have something else to show you I’m so excited about. When I thought I killed all my plants   I went to the local nursery and I bought five Cherokee Purples, and I got a couple hybrids like big beef hybrid versions. I thankful for that. I did get a couple zucchinis to get an  early start on them because I haven’t even started my zucchinis yet.

My strawberries came from Ison’s, and I’ve got to get those planted up and I got some lemon boys. 

Strawberries: 

Lemon Boy: 

I went ahead and bought some Rosemary, and I have not tried to grow any Rosemary, so I bought some Rosemary because mine died with the Christmas cold.  

I did get this one called a Better Bell it’s supposed to it’s a  sweet bell pepper and it’s supposed to  be pretty prolific, and they were pretty inexpensive where I got them, and then I also got some Roma tomatoes and some lemon boys. We really liked the lemon boys last year.

Then these are still my lettuces, leftover cabbages, my leeks.

I know one of those is I think that’s the celery over there and then of course my chamomile tea (above picture). And look – this was my original tray that we did and if you can see there you go some that one is lavender starting to finally come up.

don’t see any of the common lavender yet, and then of course some dill and some holy basil that has started to germinate, so I’ve continued to water and feed them.   I fed these plants last night with the AgroThrive, and I don’t know what I’m gonna do with all those cabbages (oh I know where I could maybe put them (maybe in another post :))).

So I wanted to show you this as well before I end this post. Well first of all this I want to show you if you ever go to Aldi’s or any of those kind of places and you see  the little Greenhouse kits and things. This is one from Aldi we got last year and put it together this year for John’s propagations if you can see and this has been fabulous for this purpose. Now, it was one that was supposed to you could just fit over a bed and I think I paid twenty dollars for it.

This could be a great way to go, if you just have a small garden and you’re trying to do your own seeds. I think you might enjoy one of these, so I just wanted to show that. But I wanted to show on my front garden. John says to please excuse the door.

If you can see I went ahead and I put up my shade cloth (the black fabric in the air, if you cannot tell from my description). This is 70% shade cloth because this is where we planted all of my brassica.

Those are all my cauliflowers and in between the cauliflowers I companion planted (by seed, direct sow) my nasturtium. So I’m hoping those will come up.

In this one we have our this is our broccoli and you can plant broccoli with onions. These are our onions that survived the cold, and all of these beds had onions.

Brassicas will do okay companion planted with onions, so I’ve got my onions here these are cabbages.

Then in the back with the trellis I actually planted my nasturtium Vining nasturtiums. They’re new to me I’ve never done those before, so I hope that they work.

I think they’ll be beautiful going up the cattle panel trellis.

and if you can see where the shade cloth, it still gets pretty good sun and it can handle the Sun too, which is why it isn’t over the arched cattle panel trellis.

and then over here I have my peas. I grew peas here last year and they did phenomenal, and I thought this would be a good place because even with the shade cloth it does get some sun and shade, which with 88 degree Heat next week could do some damage to the peas. I mean they’re not even tall enough to produce fruit yet, so I have to be careful.

(see that one’s already how it’s already wanting to grab on)

You just kind of want to encourage it to grab onto your trellis.

Shade Cloth

This is the shade cloth I put up and I actually had to take two pieces. I zip tied them  together and then I took these little pieces of PVC (a Tee) John had put this up  two years ago we’ve done shade cloth before; we usually just wait to put it up  until June/July, but I went ahead because I have brassicas in here.

All these buckets they need to go out in the New Garden area once we get that set up,

and you can see the strawberry bed’s gone crazy.  

Then this has been the big question because I have my worms. I haven’t got the worms, yet but that’s my worm habitat and I want I think I’m gonna order another shade cloth for this side as well so that’s going to kind of dictate how I’m going to plant.

Hope you enjoyed. You can see everything in my video and more.

I’ll see you next time bye.