pepperhead212
Executive Chef
I still don't know if I'll pull out the worst looking tomatoes, and plant the extras I have, as they seem to be recovering. 2 of the 5 extras are of the varieties worst hit by that cold; the other extras don't look as good as the recovered plants, which were barely bothered by it.
I just took my eggplants out to start hardening off this morning, and they have gotten quite large, quickly! Normally, they would have been planted by now, but the weather has not been normal this month! lol I put 7 outside, and I still have two smaller ones in the seedling room, but they will be outside soon.
Eggplants hardening off 5-14 by pepperhead212, on Flickr
I have some Ichiban, my earliest every year, a Hari, a Neon from old seeds, and one from saved seeds (Not sure how these will be, since these are supposedly hybrids), and Rosita and Rosa Bianca - the two new ones this season, for me. I got rosita because it looks similar to the bright purple Neon, which it seems has disappeared from the seed catalogs. This is also why I tried saving the seeds, even though they are listed as hybrids. They have been my most productive variety since back in the late 80s/early 90s, though there was one other time it went unavailable for a few years. Here's a photo showing some of last year's neons:
Neon and Ichiban, 7-14. by pepperhead212, on Flickr
I have more eggplants than I normally plant, but I might plant the extras in that raised bed, just to have extras, given the food situation. Last season I had extras with just 4 plants in SIPs...imagine how many 9 plants would produce!
And those greens and scallions are going crazy, as usual! Those purple napa are doing better in the raised bed - they bolted in the Jr Earthbox, probably because of the sudden drops in temps, which seems to trigger this in napa, more than high temperature.
Covered raised bed, 5-13-20 by pepperhead212, on Flickr
I just took my eggplants out to start hardening off this morning, and they have gotten quite large, quickly! Normally, they would have been planted by now, but the weather has not been normal this month! lol I put 7 outside, and I still have two smaller ones in the seedling room, but they will be outside soon.
Eggplants hardening off 5-14 by pepperhead212, on Flickr
I have some Ichiban, my earliest every year, a Hari, a Neon from old seeds, and one from saved seeds (Not sure how these will be, since these are supposedly hybrids), and Rosita and Rosa Bianca - the two new ones this season, for me. I got rosita because it looks similar to the bright purple Neon, which it seems has disappeared from the seed catalogs. This is also why I tried saving the seeds, even though they are listed as hybrids. They have been my most productive variety since back in the late 80s/early 90s, though there was one other time it went unavailable for a few years. Here's a photo showing some of last year's neons:
Neon and Ichiban, 7-14. by pepperhead212, on Flickr
I have more eggplants than I normally plant, but I might plant the extras in that raised bed, just to have extras, given the food situation. Last season I had extras with just 4 plants in SIPs...imagine how many 9 plants would produce!
And those greens and scallions are going crazy, as usual! Those purple napa are doing better in the raised bed - they bolted in the Jr Earthbox, probably because of the sudden drops in temps, which seems to trigger this in napa, more than high temperature.
Covered raised bed, 5-13-20 by pepperhead212, on Flickr
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