Is it too early to plant?
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Comments (7)I just planted everything & got in the house now (6:30pm CST). My Mom always has me dig little "water gulleys" around the plants. Then I watered thoroughly. Plus I added more "garden soil" into the hole around the plant before adding more normal soil. Even though we had used a number of bags of garden soil & 3 bags of mushroom compost to the soil & raked & shoveled & worked the soil this past Thursday, here 2 days later--lumpy dried out soil. I ended up raking through it again....Errrrrrrrrr :( Hopefully it will all be happy. The only garden area we have is behind our garage (east end but plants face the southwest--if that makes sense.) End result unless we get a few more pepper plants & plan on plant beans---5 tomato plants(2 cherry & 3 bigger), 2 green peppers, 4 cukes, oregano, basil, rosemary, chives, parsley. Oooooooooh my aching back.......See Moretoo early to plant cuttings?
Comments (5)Speaking from first hand experience, I would remove those cuttings from the mini "greenhouse" immediately. This is because direct sunlight passing through the clear plastic will burn your cuttings and destroy them. It may have some limited utility in the shade in an area that does not get too warm. I would put an inexpensive temp/humidity gauge available online or at the pet shop to make sure temps stay under say 95 degrees inside it. Good luck....See MoreToo early to plant Potatoes, Beets, Lettuce?
Comments (3)Ok thanks Dave. I think I will give planting all my early Spring stuff a go this weekend. 60 degrees and sunny right now, tempting to bring all my seed trays outside. EDIT: I brought all the nightshades outside and potted them up. It's nearly 70 degrees out! They seem to be having no problems with the direct sun. But I will bring them back in soon. I potted up all but the 2 week old tomatoes just now out of those crappy peat pots, and followed Dave's previous suggestion and only half filled the 3.5" pots with soil....See MoreToo Early To Plant Peppers?
Comments (16)I put out 4-inch banana peppers this year in March when nighttime temps got below 50F. They are now 2-feet tall, lush green and have flowers and peppers on them. Now, they didn't really start growing strongly for several weeks, but there was no permanent stunting that I was able to see. This seems to be pretty much the norm for me each season. But that's right, the peppers have no business flowering and fruiting when it's that cold. As far as I can tell, the tolerance for cool temperature isn't about survival, but growth rate. While it's cool, peppers and especially eggplants will just sit and sit and not grow....See More- 5 years ago
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