Who's putting in their garden this weekend?

[Sharon]

LOts of rain in Middlesex county too last night. Yehhhh! Getting tired of hand watering every day for 3 weeks.

[fishfood]

Yep all stocked up with a 2 week supply again. Shouldn't need to water for a few day's after today.

Hopefully some of this system helps out the fire's and lift our bann.

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[Bo D]

A much neededrain for sure. The plants in the garden have just about doubled in size within a day or two of the rain with the exception of my pepper plants. The hot bananna pepper plants have remained almost as if they were dormant. I doubt very much if they've grown a half an inch since planting them back in May... Any ideas...

[Birdbuff]

A much neededrain for sure. The plants in the garden have just about doubled in size within a day or two of the rain with the exception of my pepper plants. The hot bananna pepper plants have remained almost as if they were dormant. I doubt very much if they've grown a half an inch since planting them back in May... Any ideas...

Just because you don’t see growth above soil does not mean that there is no growth going on at root level. Peppers need a good amount of heat to take off. Once we get into some steady sun and warmer temps your peppers should explode. But if your soil has nutrient deficiencies you could mix in some blood and bone meal around the base and water it in. A table spoon of the mix should do, per pepper.

[Bo D]

From looking at the plants yesterday and again this afternoon, looks as if my pepper plants have grown a good three inches overnite... Took them a tad longer to kick in compared to the rest of the garden and all is good.. This coming weekend I had planed on fertilizing and will do to help them along...

Birdbuff thanks for the info, much appreciated...

[longpointer]

Looks like a soggy long weekend coming up but the garden will love it ! I have a fair size (50x100 feet) garden down by Lake Erie , Norfolk County. So far any started plants are hanging in there and the stuff I planted from seeds are just starting to sprout so a slow soaker would be nice.

[fishfood]

Started 12 rainbow blend peppers so hopefully I can get one of every color. Also Started some Hungarian and sweet banana peppers.

First time starting indoors will 3 inch by 3 in by 3 in be ok ?



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[Birdbuff]

In my experience 18 oz solo cups are the way to go for starts. I believe they are 3" round by 5" tall. I germinate my peppers in a moist paper towel in a ziplock bag. This way I can ensure each pot has a viable plant. Once they sprout and show their first leaves then I can put them in the pots.

[fishfood]

That's usually how I do most of my seeding is the paper towel but just put 2 to 3 seeds per pot and will snip the weakest as they sprout.

Hopefully I don't have to transplant them I was thinking about solo cups.



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