Friday, May 18, 2012

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
From Tomatoes

Jalepeno
From Tomatoes
SWC
From Tomatoes
Installation Complete
From Tomatoes


Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Mulching


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