Planting Out

The warm days (and nights) are finally here and I planted out tomatoes and peppers this week.

I am still pretty space constrained in the new yard so I am only putting 4 tomato plants in the ground. I also planted 4 pepper plants in my 5 gallon SWC (self watering containers).

Tomatoes that I planted were: Lemon Boy, Red Zebra and Roma. I just was reading over some old posts and these were top 3 from 2009 so I guess I am consistent. I also plan on doing Chocolate Cherry again but I didn't have good luck with those seedlings so I had to start over with them. It will be interesting to see how well those can catch up since they only were started a week or so ago.

The peppers are Jalepeno, Thai and Mini bell; I grew peppers in the SWC last year and had good luck so I am hoping for a repeat performance.

Three tomatoes ready for planting

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Jalepeno

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SWC

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Installation Complete

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Mulching

This past weekend we did a long overdue mulch project. The kids and I put down 10 yds of mulch.

Tomatoes 2012

Last spring was very busy with robotics and whatnot and we didn't do any seeds.

This year I wanted to get back into the game.

On Sunday night I started 6 tomato varieties, some various herbs and some jalepenos.

The tomatoes are in small pots in starter mix; the six types are:

• Lemon Boy
• Chocolate Cherry
• Sweet 100
• Roma
• Red Zebra
• Mary Robinson's German Bi-color

The Jalepenos, Rosemary and Lavender are being sprouted in baggies (with wet paper towels). Also I did a mixed herb pot for the kitchen with basil, parsley, oregano and cilantro. Man are those oregano seeds small.

These are the first seedlings that we have done on Windsor Drive.