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Tomfirephoto
2025-05-18

The first petunia blooming that sprouted in the overwintered indoors verbena pot.

A photo showing a large planter pot that is attached to a post, or pole if you prefer, that has a hot pink or purple verbena that had some petunias sprout with it while indoors over the winter. The petunia is faded pink and white and is the type that will grow one long stem and die if you don't dead head it after about 10 flowers. No bueno. There are also volunteer petunia and birch trees and who knows what around the perimeter of the big pot. Some of the verbena seen is in a hanging pot beyond the big pot. There is a silver birch in the upper right beyond the post and next to it is a very large hexagon shaped raised bed that someone hasn't put in place, dug a hole, filled hole with wood, covered it with layers of small wood and dirt and leaves repeated over until it's about half fill and the topped up with whatever is scraped up around that counts as soil to fill it up. There are 7 grape vines in the distance growing in the lawn with green fiberglass stakes next to them, the 8th stake has a dead grape. Beyond those are Japanese knotweed, spindle something shrub..., and black cap raspberries, ... and vinca major, and lots of big rocks.
Tomfirephoto
2025-05-16

The cucumbers came up tuesday (shown), some runner beans today, and tonight I saw some of the melons coming up and maybe something else. I didn't have heat under them, just under the lights, maybe 70-75F, 23C, on the surface when the lights are on.

I turned the heat mats on tonight, some of the pots were too wet and I don't want the squash or melons to take too long to come up. All saved seeds except squash.

A photo showing 4 square pots that have seedlings emerging from the potting soil. There are two pots marked muncher, and 2 pots marked marketer. There are other pots around them and a corner of a covered tray beyond them.
Tomfirephoto
2025-05-11

I planted all the squash, cucumber, and melon seeds except yellow crook-neck that will be here Monday. 22 pots plus 6 runner bean pots I started yesterday and I need to put some runner beans in the ground too. I made a rough layout of the raised beds and places tomatoes are going too. All the basil will go in the long raised bed. Winter squash are bush type this year.

An image of a 2D CAD drawing showing a garden layout with mostly raised beds and the planting plan. The 4 narrower beds are 9 feet long by 3 feet wide, 2.7m x .9m. The wider beds are 4 feet wide, 1.2m, and two are 8 feet long, 2.4m, and one is 14 feet, 4.2m, long. The hexagon bed is 7.2 ft, 2.2m wide, and 32 inches, 0.9m, to planter that will be placed in the middle. The Principe Borghese tomatoes are determinate and will be in cages or multiple stakes. The flamme, tomatillo, cherry tomato row is under a trellis as well as the long raised bed.
Tomfirephoto
2025-05-10

I potted up most of the peppers into gallon pots today. Filled a tray of 18 for cucumbers, squash, and beans but only planted the runner beans. I might be able to get rid of a tray of plants this weekend so I'll have enough tray space to start the melons too. The ground and raised bed is ready for tomatoes but it's going to be a cool week ahead.

A photo showing up-potted pepper plants on the right. Two trays of 16 plants in gallon pots. Red Marconi and California Wonder 300 sweet peppers, and Jalapeno peppers. The other trays are tomatoes, tomatillo, and some bought egg plants that are alive.
Tomfirephoto
2025-04-21

The peppers are doing typical indoor pepper things. Last week it was getting humid in there so I opened it up for a couple of days to dry it out. A little bit of edema on some some peppers but it's all lower leaves that will die off anyway. There's a fan that circulates the air down when the lights are on and I have vents open now. Need to prune the geraniums more. Basil is doing great.

A photo showing 2 trays of sweet pepper/chili plants, a tray of basil plants, a tray of overwintered plants including a grape vine, a Red Marconi sweet pepper, purple flower verbena, lychnis , and a tray of overwintered geraniums that have flowers that are red to pink. Everything is inside a 4x4 foot grow tent with 4 100 watt LED grow light panels.
JanetHomestead@mastodon.scot
2025-03-03

Game on! The only antidote to those sowing hatred and despair: sowing seeds. Time to top these off with compost and pop in the propagation unit. #SavedSeeds #gardening @gardening

A collection of small black seedling pots filled with soil with seeds sitting on the top and labeled with wooden sticks. Six labels read Orange banana tomatoes and two are green courgettes. A black tray is placed underneath, and there are sunglasses and a patterned tablecloth in the background
Tomfirephoto
2025-02-27

Capsicum annuum have been planted. 5 pots each of saved seed. Two sweet, one hot. California Wonder, Red Marconi, and Jalapeno. Sieved potting mix to remove the chunks of wood and rocks. On a 17 watt heat mat with a clear cover, and under one LED panel adjusted to about 220 µMol/m2/S. Temperature warmed from 63F / 17C to 78F / 26C in 2 hours or less.

A square cropped photo looking down on a 1020 tray that has a cluster of 15 two-inch pots that are full of potting mix and each have two seeds visible on the surface before they were planted with the traditional planting pencil. There are plant stakes/labels in the three farthest pots. As views the pots are 3 wide and two deep. The left column is Red Marconi, center is Jalapeno, and right is California Wonder.A square cropped photo showing 3 heavy duty plastic zip bags that contain capsicum seeds. They are labeled and the two lower bag labels are visible through the bags stacked on top but offset vertically. There are hundreds of seeds in each bag that are generally a dark cream colored.A square cropped photo looking at the end of the tray with planted seeds, it has a clear cover placed on top and a dial probe thermometer placed into the clear cover with it's tip resting on the first row of pots. The thermometer has a green zone to represent good worm compost temperature I think and has a cartoon worm in the middle. There is a smaller NSF food safety type thermometer on top of the clear tray cover. The bench top they are sitting on is blue and plastic. The background is silver reflective covered fiberglass cloth.A square cropped closeup photo of the thermomter. It says "Worm Therm tm REOTEMP COMPOST" and has the 10 segmented worm cartoon in the middle. The thermometer reads in Fahrenheit on the outside scale and Celsius on the inside scale. It ranges from 25F to 125F, or -5C to 52C. It is reading 26C or 78F in this photo.

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