I had to come back to edit because I realized my carrot "talk" made zero sense.

I found carrots today while weeding that must have popped up over the past month and they were amongst the winter weeds. In that bed, they (probably) were sown last spring. However, I did sow new carrot seed in anothe bed yesterday. And maybe I'll see those in a year. That's what I was rambling about while trying to post and watch You Outta Know at the same time. LOL

HI everyone.

Amy, thanks for checking on us (other thread). We are all fine as I'm sure you know by now.

Scary and sad, though.

Quick update on our gardens.

All of my raised beds are cleaned out of henbit, etc. now.

It's always amusing what you find in the garden when you look closely. I have carrots in one of the raised beds. Maybe I planted them last spring??? They were hiding in the henbit. In a perfect row.

Carrots are weirdos for sure. Maybe I'll see those in year. lol

Same bed has the dill coming up. It comes up there every year.

Rick got the SG tilled and the corn planted.

I need flippin' Chip Drop to bring some chips, tho! The pathways in the kitchen garden are horrible.

I'm ready to start planting next weekend, but it's Holy Week and I'll be busy next weekend. SO....if the 10 day forecast looks good on Easter, then I'll start planting the next day.

How is it already time?!

Tom has the CMTs on, and Alanis Morissette just came on (what?! on the CMTs?) But, it's probably the only performance that I've enjoyed since sitting here for the past half hour. I hate when I get distracted when posting here or anywhere.

Where was I?

Everything really does look so good right now as far as plants go. The property isn't pretty and the garden pathways are untidy--but that's okay.

Actually, the cabbage plants in the very tall raised bed do not look good. The wind has torn them up pretty badly. But I can see the new leaves coming in and they look good. Maybe not all is lost. And I have the other cabbages in the hinged hoop which gets a bit more protection.

It's time, Friends!

Jen, I normally plant between 15 and 30 tomato plants, but I normally start 50 to 100 so I can have plenty to give away. Madge and I say each year that we wont need over 12 plants, but we have never been able to cut down to 12 plans. ( Madge has started over 12 herself)

My neighbor has a nice greenhouse, but has never started any seeds in it. He and I sort of started a deal between us, I am not able to do much, I don't walk well, and cant lift much. Neighbor is retired also (about the same age as my oldest son ) and is as strong as a mule. I have 4 old junkie tractors, and a bunch of old junkie equipment. Between the two of us, neighbor and I have access to nearly 100 acres of land, so we can always find a spot to work into a garden.

I try to keep the equipment going and do a lot of the tractor work, neighbor does the hard stuff. I am hoping that we can sell a lot of the plants and buy supplies for next year. Neighbor sells produce through the summer and into the fall, we have a lot of squash and pumpkins ready to go into the ground now, but we can't get the ground ready because it has been so wet.

Jennifer, we celebrated Madge's 84 birthday today, we had a house full, and the kids drove the ATV through out beet and turnip patch twice. There is nothing safe around kids with an ATV. The beets were just starting to break through the soil surface. I will have to see if I can repair, and string some kind of marker.

Haz/Jen ... ( I never really know which ) , I'm wanting to grow dill. A barbecue forum I visit says fresh dill makes all the diff in making pickles. I read its a cool season plant, is it too late now ? Also, when do you plant cucumber seed ?

I saw that Gary Clark Jr covered a Stevie Ray Vaughn song at the CMT Awards. I don't watch those award shows, is CMT a country music award show ? I thought it was. I enjoy both Clark and SRV but I never thought either was country music.

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Jlhart, when some manage their 401K or IRA, they want to try to move in and out of the stock market anticipating if going down or up. And for us Average Joes, that's not a good thing. Leave that to the experts. Just ride out the high's and lows. The selling part is easy but the buying back in part is the difficult one. Its real easy for the market to go back up before they can get back in.

I look at planting tomatoes the same way, hahaha ..... I want to be in the ground when the soil temps warm up to 60*. And I want to plant when I can get in the garden, I don't want to hope for several days of no rain. For me, its a better bet just to get the 5 gallon buckets out of the shed.

I plan on potting some tomatoes and peppers into larger pots this week, and hardening the plants off. It is so uncertain around here as to when I can get into the garden, or when the last frost date is. I almost ever year have some plant in larger pots, and others as back-ups.

I try to watch the Oklahoma soil temp chart to try to know when the soil is warm enough. By looking at the chart my soil should be around 55 degrees.

oh no, Larry! Your poor beets and turnips!

But, Happy BD to Madge!

Lynn, yes! Get some dill. Fresh dill makes ALL the difference in pickles.

Either name is fine. It's confusing, I know. And to make it more confusing Jen only likes to go by Jen....not Jennifer or Jenny.

I'm Jen, Jennifer, Jenny depending on who is addressing me (and HJ and Hazel here.) Why I gotta be so complicated.

Also, I stopped watching those awards shows too, for the most part. Usually when Tom has them on, I'm doing something else. Yes, CMT is country music, that's why I was surprised with Alanis Morissette was on it. I probably still have my cassette tape of Jagged Little Pill from way back when I was in my 20's. Anyway...she's not country.

Jen, I hope your herbs are doing okay. The comfrey looked iffy when I dropped it off. IF it doesn't make it, let me know and I'll dig up more and bring to SF.

Well, I was at Ace Hardware this morning and saw they had dill plants. So I bought two rather than to try to seed them. And now I've got another plant to learn about.

Lynn, dill will bolt when it gets warm, but it starts so easy from seed I often direct seed. You can cut a piece before it flowers, put it in a plastic bag and freeze it for later pickles. I had one recipe that called for a branch in each jar. Now some call for seed.

Happy birthday Madge!

Tablet is fighting i houzz . Jennifer, bring some lemon balm to spring fling, please.

HJ, I'm right there with you. I'm presiding over our Good Friday service, so I'm trying to get that finished. Plus working extra to help make up the time, I've had too much time off lately as it is and really can't afford to take more. But working extra means my time outside this week will be limited. Ugh, being an adult sucks. I put the 2 bigger comfreys in the ground, see how they do in a few days. Chamomile I broke into little chunks and put in a large pot, then pulled (gently) a few singles out and potted them up individually. We'll see which round works. Lemon balm went into a pot too...or the ground...I really don't remember now lol.

Larry, sounds like a good arrangement between you two. And I agree, 12 is just entirely too few plants. Even though I'm the only one who eats them. But I've also never had a good harvest; usually one or two tomatoes here and there. I'm hoping though, that now I can plant in the ground that I'll start getting bumper crops of stuff and maybe in a few years start selling my excess. Gotta support my gardening habit somehow, right? And pass along my well wishes to Madge.

Lynn, as HJ said, she's Jen, Jennifer, Hazel or HJ, I'm Jen. My dill always seemed to struggle in the summer, then perked back up when it started to cool off. CMT is country music, comes from the old cable station "Country Music Television". Back in its heyday it played music videos, like MTV used to be music videos before it turned into...whatever you'd call it now. And with all the crossovers, no one is truly country or rock or whatever. I mean, Taylor Swift will always be a country singer in my mind, despite her current success.

Amy, HJ brought me some lemon balm. If she doesn't bring some to spring fling, I'll split what she gave me. I learned when we were still in Tulsa that it's a complete thug and can take over quickly. Which is why I'm planting it in the ground. If it takes off, great. I like thuggy plants lol.

According to Channel 4 meteorologist , next two weeks will be warm with no severe weather ......... and no rain .

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I could do this hoop house, very easily. Might be able to start tomato plants up to a month earlier. Mrs Dollar wonders how it would hold up in the wind.

We have been working at the greenhouse. Neighbor has been removing most of the plants to start hardening off, which is not working to well. We are told that you start with an hour of sun, then increase an hour a day, we can't even empty the greenhouse in an hour. The plan is to stack the plants on our trailers, then just pull them into the shade after the time is up. It looks like we will end up with a bunch o sun scalded plants.

I spent a good bit of time pulling sweet potato slips, then potting then into Solo cups. I potted up 185 Red Wine Velvet plants today, I should wind up with at least 300 RWV, and maybe 200 Covington.

On days of really heavy wind, if the temps are not below freezing, then I could just roll up the plastic ? IDK what I would do if freezing temps and high wind. The video says nothing about wind.

I'm thinking I would anchor it with Quikrete . This would be a permanent addition. After last frost just take the plastic off.

For heavy wind you would just about have to take the plastic off completely or the wind will finish taking it off for you. And then the wind will beat your plants up if it's that bad. For freezing temps you would need to heat it at night at least. If you got both high winds and freezing temps I guess your just out of luck.

I had a lot of problems wrangling with the winds all winter with my low tunnels even as well anchored down as I did.

The plastic ends would keep blowing open and by the time I was finished with them I had rips in the row cover in places.

Don't under estimate that wind.

Rick

Amy, there's quite a few lemon balm plants in the burn pile. I'll grab some for you. It's where I got Jen's plant.

Lynn, my dill is planted where it gets some shade in the afternoon/evening. It will flower or the swallowtails find it, but will go another round in the fall. Which works for me because of fall cucumbers. It smells SO good. Years ago I put a dill plant in that spot and haven't had to buy a plant since then.

Lynn, have you seen Backyard Revolution? The guy has an amazing garden in a suburb of Chicago. He takes his plastic off in the summer and grows things all winter with the plastic on. Check him out. He's not one of the annoying YouTubers. He's practical and very successful with his garden.

Rick, give wind an inch, and wind will take a mile.

H/J , I'd like to plant the dill along the south wall of the house, where I grow my cilantro, basil, and garlic. But the info with the plant said it needs full sun. And the eave of the house will get mostly shade in June when the sun is straight over head. I might have to dedicate a corner of the garden, right next to my cucumber trellis. I've heard if ya plant it once, it keeps coming up, but if I plant in the garden it will get tilled. But I got some time to figure that out.

So you're finding YouTubers becoming annoying also ? I was mostly watching barbecue vids and I've cut back a lot on those. What happens to them, is they have some success making vids covering the basics and build a big subscriber base. Along with that, they get a good income from Google. Then comes the pressure to keep creating content to keep people watching and keep the income rolling in. And that's when I find them annoying. They have to really reach. All kinds of comparisons, and experiments, and reviewing products and then they label their vid with something like " A New Way to Grow Tomatoes " ... " A New Way to Smoke a Brisket " ......... and they're generally a waste of time.

And in the barbecue world they've become " social media influencers " that go on the payroll of smoker//grill manufacturers to promote the latest smoker that no one really needs. I'm all about capitalism, its made our country wealthy, but I'm also a consumer and I know " snake oil " when I see it.

About you tube. I agree. There are many channels that started out great, informative channels and then crossed over to commercialism. I do not watch tv at all so you tube is my go to for entertainment. It’s sad to watch a good channel change from informative down home to sponsorship.

I bought a pack of dill seed last year and never planted them, I hope the seeds are still good, maybe I can find a place to put them.

When I went to the greenhouse yesterday evening to water, neighbor informed me that we still had between 1200 and 1300 tomatoes to pot up. I dont know how we got that many tomatoes, that brings our total up to near 1500 plants, there is no way we can care for all the plants that we have. We have a chance of hail, out plant problems may go away fast.

Well I gotta go see the Dr., talk to y'all later.

Edited to say: Larry! That is a crazy amount of tomatoes! I'm pretty sure that Dawn in her glory days didn't even have that many. LOL

The country music talk and the wind talk reminds me of a meme that I saw yesterday. It was a pic of Carrie Underwood singing "there's not enough wind in Oklahoma" (y'all know that song?)....well, you can imagine the funnyness of the meme.

Day off! And laundry is done. Supplies purchased for an event tomorrow night and hoop house watered. Time for a break.

A quick walk around the gardens was windy and warm. (I did figure out where 3 of the 4 escaping hens are getting out and fixed it. Maizey just flies over even with clipped wing feathers)

The potatoes are really popping up. I'm finding more carrots that were planted last year and all sorts of interesting things in the burn pile.

Corn! We have corn coming up in the burn pile. So, now I have identified corn, lemon balm, garlic, coneflowers, sunflowers, cilantro, and yarrow.

We usually only burn the pile in the late fall. Although this year, we did a winter burn on a nice January day. (and an expensive drone watched us and we thought it was the fire marshal)

I guess that burning really "activates" the plants to sprout or something? I'm sure it's science that I've read about in the past but don't remember the details.

I do enjoy YouTube, but am a little weary of some of my old favorites. No complaints, tho. If it's annoying, I turn it off.

It does make me nervous (for the YouTubers) when everyone in the family quits their jobs to do YouTube full time. I am happy for them, but it would be scary.

Sometimes it is the weak content, but some of them have voices that annoy me. I say that knowing full well, that *I* have an annoying voice too. I do little videos of my garden that I share on my FB Garden Monday posts. I say "sorta" and "kinda' too much for one. And just my pronunciation of words sounds awkward and I talk too fast at times.

Anyway...

It's nearly noon. Where is the day going?

Jennifer, we just got back from the clinic, and coming down the hwy past neighbors house, I noticed him near the greenhouse. I have got to go down and talk to him, we just cant care for that many plants, he need to sell as many as he can and buy supplies for next year.

I ask neighbor " how in the world did we get that many plants"? He said "well last year nothing would come up". This is the first year that I have helped him in the greenhouse, in the past I just gave him my excess plants. I noticed that he was buying a large amount of seeds, I just though that he was stocking up. Anyway we have tons of plants.

Nancy, some of the seeds we planted this year were some you sent. I have planted some of your seed every year since you sent them, but I thought I had better get to planting more of them, or I would never use them up. All the seeds I have used from your gift made good plants, and good tomatoes, thanks for all the good eating.

Well, I had better change clothes and go to the greenhouse, I know there is a ton of work to be done.

H/J , I could not find a YouTube channel called Backyard Revolution

Sorry, Lynn. It's One Yard Revolution. OYR Frugal & Sustainable Organic Gardening.

It's been 3 years since he's made videos, tho.

We had more wind and rain early this morning, I have not been out to check, but I think everything is okay, except that we did not need the rain.

I will have to go over to the greenhouse and start potting up more plants after while. We sure need to change our plans for next year, two beat up old men don't need this many plants to care for. If the new plans to down size go like my past plans to down size, I may have twice as many plants next year.

Neighbor called from Ft. Smith and told me that he needed at least 30 cherry tomatoes potted up today, but we are out of one kind of potting mix we like. Neighbor watches the weather on his phone, and says we should have 8 good day to try to get some work done, starting this after noon. I don't know where he gets his information, but I hope he is correct.

We are running late this year, just like always, but the potato patch that has come up ( about 350# of seed) really looks good.

After a lot of Googling yesterday, I think the hoop house is a good idea but fails in execution. In my case, I would run the risk of an early March arctic cold front with strong winds and freezing temps. In that case, I can't open up the hoop house and I'd just have to hope it held up to the wind.

I think I'll pass.

And I also have questions about soil temps inside the hoop house.

Probably a wise decision. I've seen it get in the single digits in early March usually after I've put out onions.

Rick

Yes, I've seen that also. I got my onions through a 6* night in the first week of March one year, by covering them with leaves and then soaking the leaves. With a hoop house, there's double jeopardy ...... whether temps stay above freezing in the hoop house and that's if the plastic doesn't get blown off by the strong north winds.

Channel 9 says a frost tonight for OKC and the I-44 corridor . Call for a low of 35

Weather Channel 9

National Weather Service says 39 for a low.

Channel 4 is saying 37*

Channel 5 says 38

I hate getting those buckets out. Have to be a very small chance of a freeze

Madge and I went to visit friends about 50 miles away, when we got back and the greenhouse was shut up, my min/max was showing 59 out side, the greenhouse was about 99 on the inside.

The only way we can make the greenhouse work for us is for one of us to stay home and monitor it, or set it up on a thermostat. A fan is not too expensive to run, but heat will cost more. The best bet for us is to babysit the greenhouse.

You really have to keep an eye on the moisture of the potting soil also, the wrong mixture can dry out very fast.

So far we have done well on potting up our sweet potatoes, we lost one plant to a bird before we could get the plants watered.

We got to 39 last night. Everything looked okay in the hoop house.

Lynn, my phone app says low of 40 in the morning.

I won't be home tonight to do much for anything. Hoping it all works out.

Larry, that's the thing about greenhouse, hoop houses--they really need to be monitored if they're not set up with the fancy, expensive equipment.

Today, I'm working until around 8:30 and will be home by 9ish.

I asked Tom to please check to see if the hoop house door was still open. Even though I prop it with a concrete block, it's been known to slam shut on extremely windy days. Then, the temperature jumps up on sunny days (like today) that can cause damage. I wish I was home to close it around 6 to try to hold in some heat. But, I won't be home. And Tom won't either because after he gets all the critters fed, he's coming to help me at work so I won't be here until midnight.

Even though hoop houses aren't perfect, it has been a great blessing and very useful. Especially with hardening off.

Holy jeebus, our potatoes have gone bonkers over the past week. I guess the warm temps just shot them up. Well, or I was just preoccupied with septic-gate. What an absolute mess.

The wind was only blowing about 50 mph yesterday, but my tomatoes are okay. They've been out on the deck the last few days & nights. It's time to get them in the dirt, just too tall now.

I may be out of room after this weekend, but i'm really hoping the brocolli/cab/caul experiment works out okay. Almost time to get the beans planted too.

Our potatoes are popping up too.

Wish it wouldn't frost anymore and bite them back.

Thinkin about planting beans too. Hopefully the soil temps will warm on up.

Rick

I found the missing eggs I finally got a chicken tunnel added to the coop so no more free ranging. I almost killed one of my girls when her head got caught when I was closing them up for the night. Ugh. Good news for gardening tho. Now I can plant seeds get them covered with insect cloth and hopefully grow something to eat. I think I missed the sugar pea window but I may still throw some seeds in empty container to see. They are one of my favorites.

We had a pocket of freezing temps just to the NW of OKC

Jed at Channel 9 missed it last night with a forecast low of 35, so he doubles down tonight with a low of 34. NWS says 38 tonight at Will Rogers airport.

Rick, that looks like good potato soil, which we don't have a lot of around here.

Neighbor grew up central Arkansas in flat land farming country, and is having problems adjusting to this rocky, hilly, clayie western Arkansas land. The practice he is mostly having problems with is erosion. If we don't keep our ground covered, we don't keep it, then in a big rain we may lose it anyway. We are trying to fight erosion by using my land for gardening. I still have erosion problems, but not like he does, we may not be able to do any good over here either.

Lynn, this is a touch time of the year for me also, I don't feel safe till the first of May, but I can risk a few plants, it depends on how many buckets and tubs I have on hand.

Ft. Smith weather is showing 46 degrees, I am showing 38 here. I often have a freeze of frost here and nearby places are warmer. My temp is more likely to be closer to the temp in Poteau, Oklahoma, which is farther away than Ft. Smith.

It's heavy clay soil there at Jennifers. When it gets wet it stays wet a while but no rocks much. I tilled it last week while it was still a little wet and it dried clotty , had to retill a few times to break the clots down to plant corn.

Getting ready to start putting out toms and plant beans before it gets wet again.

Rick

Kim, I found these eggs on Tuesday, hidden behind a tarp that I put up in December as a wind block for the winter.

It was sorta my fault tho, There were a couple of recent days that the coop door wasn't propped open securely. I found a few eggs lying around their yard/pen, but KNEW there had to be more. (Did they eat them? Did they refuse to lay them and are they now eggbound?) Nope, pulled the tarp back and here they are. They all sank in water, so they're still good to eat. I won't give these away, tho. We will eat them. Just in case. But, they really did all sink.

Rick, the soil looked more fluffy than it did after blew the picture up, but it is still much better than some of the soil we are trying to work with. There are very few spots around here level enough to make a good garden spot, but a person just has to play the hand that is dealt to them.

I have the two garden spots hear at my house in pretty good shape, but it is a never ending battle to them that way. We have to amend the soil a lot to keep in in pretty good shape. The people that have naturally good soil don't realize what a blessing they have.

I lost my nerve. I looked at this map. And I got out the buckets .

I up-potted 180 bell peppers this afternoon, and a bunch of tomatoes, not sure how many. I potted 13 Mrs Maxwell tomato plants ( I have never heard of them before ). Neighbors friend gave him some seed, friend told neighbor that he was unable to get the seeds to germinate. We have two tomato types that I want to watch closely, the Mrs. Maxwell, and one from George, Baker Family Heirloom. I have a good bunch of the Baker Family, so I can gamble a little with them, but with only 13 of the Mrs. Maxwell I may get uneasy about having seeds for next year.

We are have more problems than we need this year. It seems as though everything we own is broken down, and we need to be getting soil ready to plant, and I still have a few hundred plants to up-pot.

Jennifer, I think your hens are starting their own 401K, you may want to borrow money from then some day.

I'm halfway between two Mesonet stations, the OKC East and Norman. Last night, OKC East saw a low of 32 and Norman hit 37.

OKC Will Rogers says 40* right now, and that is 2 miles west of me.

40 degrees in Norman at 5:40 am.

OKC East was a real anomaly. Strange. That mesonet station is located near the I-35 and I-40 interchange, on the property of the old " Rose Hill " sewer treatment plant. Its in the North Canadian river bottom.

OKC East is about 9 miles from my house. Norman mesonet near the Norman Municipal airport, which is about 9 miles from the house.

I just learned a trick for getting two 5 gallon buckets unstuck. Yesterday, evening I had four them stuck together and they would not budge. Well, a guy on YT said to pour hot water around the top of the lower bucket. I just did that and they came apart with ease. Only catch is, they were cold this morning. Not sure this would work if they were warmer. The heat causes the lower bucket to expand, releasing it.

Next trick to learn is a way to store these things so they won't get stuck.

here a pic of a few nests I found. It’s tiring but my grand love eggs so I keep searching.

Kim, it looks like your chickens are saving up for a rainy day also. That brings back memories of going out and looking for nest when I was a kid.

My min/max shows that we got down to 39 here last night. According to Lynn's map, we should have been 38. We are also within 1 degree of what Ft. Smith shows. We often get Oklahoma City weather a day later, but I had rather not have anything lower than 40, with warmer, dryer days so we can get some soil ready. We have plants that need to be planted now, and more that will be ready in about 3 weeks. I told neighbor that we were going to have to sell some plants or rent more land.

So far we have been very lucky with our plants. Of the 185 sweet potato slips I potted, the only one we lost was carried away by a bird no more than 30 minutes after I potted it. I had rather go from the sweet potato straight into the ground, but you have to have the ground ready, and the weather cooperating, of which did not happen.

I'm glad you're finding your eggs, Kim.

I need to find sweet potatoes, Larry. I'll do a few again in the mineral tubs.

My low was 39 around 7 am.

We have the SG planted! Rick did the beans and we both got the tomatoes planted. 53, I think. We've been working hard after our paying jobs. We'll probably be very sore by Monday morning when we start the work week again. He's going to plant at Okmulgee tomorrow and I've got events (that I'm in charge of) all weekend and then try to cook, shop, and work in the garden in-between stuff.

The only things that remain are okra and cowpeas.

I was also able to get the Dr. Wyche and Sungold in. And the eggplant. There's not a lot of those--just 3 Dr. Wyche and 2 Sungold and 6 eggplant. They are in the back garden that I call Charlotte's Garden. There's also a few onions back there and the garlic. I put in several calendula tonight as well. And a couple of chamomile. When it warms up, Seminole pumpkins will go on the trellises. In June, the onions and garlic will come out and hopefully the seminole will sprawl. It has the potential to look really pretty.

A couple of years ago, I had flowers, peppers in the raised beds, and noodle beans on the trellis. It was quite lovely until the aphids found the noodle beans.

I am hoping to squeeze in some time after Easter lunch to get the remaining heirloom tomatoes planted. And maybe the herbs and flowers. Unfortunately, I have not had the time to finish the herb spiral. There's gobs of henbit in and around it and needs to be filled with soil.

It's the time of year for the 1000's of little tree sprouts. So annoying.

It would be nice to have a week off from work. Especially next week. The weather looks great.

I'm rambling. So tired. Hope everyone is enjoying the decent weather.

HJ, what kind of tree? We're debating putting some in the back field.

I had church tonight, had to head over at 2 and got home about 9 so everything stayed inside today. I'll try planting a few things tomorrow, if we don't go somewhere. Cliff mentioned going to the dog park, but isnt feeling wel ltoday so it depends on how he's feeling in the morning. We also have a few things to do before spring Fling, so I may suggest we do that instead.

Jennifer, I did not get a lot of potatoes from my mineral tub, It is in an area that does not get a lot of sun. I also need to redo my mineral tub rack. I tried to make it where I could mow under it, but the rack that had 6 tubs on it was so heavy that it started pulling the deck apart. I have a hi-lift jack that I intend to lift the rack back in place and pull it into position with "F " clamps, at the same time I will repair the deck.

I was up-potting again today. I brought 180 bell peppers, and about 125 egg plants home to put under the lights. I really think the plants would be okay in the greenhouse, but because I run my light 24 hours a day, and the light shelf in in a bedroom. it stays pretty warm in the bed room. I think the extra heat at night may make the plants grow a little faster.

We are hoping to get our ground ready this week. We are late every year. but if it stays sunny enough to dry the soil, I can bust up the soil fast with a tractor.

Neighbor though that the plants may to be fed, which I agreed, so I mixed up a 2 gal sprayer of Miracle Gro and left it in the greenhouse. I had told him that I had 46-0-0, 32-0-0, 10-20-10, and 13-13-13 also that we could use, but a weak spray of MG was all that I had ever used on young plants. When I went back this evening I noticed pellets of fertilizer stuck to some of the growing tips of the young plants, I tried to flick off what pellets I could, but I know that we will have some damage from the strong fertilizer, but we will cross that bridge when we get to if. I hope that neighbor did not try to fertilize the plants on the trailer or the others under the car port, because plants close together will catch nearly all of the pellets on their leaves.