Lynne's AG Activities

[Sher]

It looks like pepper heaven to me!

[Shawn]

They are all looking great Lynne. 

[lynnee]

Why you shouldn't try to grow spinach in a Sprout. The Territorial Seeds Baby Leaf Spinach (middle and rear pods) bolted before it produced enough leaves to be worth harvesting. The spinach was sprouted in the Sprout seed starter (see this earlier post).



The Johnny's spinach in the front pod never really got going. Spinach needs more nutrients than are practical in a Sprout, I think. It started growing after I upped the AG nutrients from the AG recommendation for 3-pod gardens, but still it didn't reach salad proportions.

[Sher]

Aww. That's sad, lynnee. The leaves are a beautiful color, though.

[areyoukittenme]

Oof, sorry about the spinach. Do you think you'll try those in a bigger garden?

[lynnee]

May 7, 2022 22:53:08 GMT -5 areyoukittenme said:

Oof, sorry about the spinach. Do you think you'll try those in a bigger garden?

I'll definitely try the Territorial Seeds baby spinach again. The leaves looked so beautiful, and it was growing well, with healthy roots.

[lynnee]

A few days ago, I nearly killed my high-producing banana pepper (grown from saved seeds) by forgetting to plug in the pump after a routine R&R. The plant dropped nearly all of its leaves, so I harvested all of the peppers (which needed harvesting anyway) to relieve stress on it.

This Is how the plant (on the left) looked a while ago. This is how it looks today.



Those peppers at the top that are partly out of the photo have grown since the disaster happened! Here is a photo of the harvest.

[areyoukittenme]

I'm so glad I'm not the only one who forgets to plug the pump back in again. 😅

That's quite a nice harvest of peppers!

[Sher]

What a glorious haul of peppers, lynnee! WOW!!! 

i discovered today that I had forgotten to plug the pump in on my yellow petunias. The water looked gross, but the plant seems okay.

[lynnee]

Four Green Zebra tomato seedlings moved outdoors today . They went into an Earth Box.  (I'm not watering any plants in the ground until CA gets out of the drought.  That's woolly thyme and a CA native ground cover above the box.)



The GZs spent 28 days in a Harvest seed starter, along with three Baby Hybrid cukes.

I decided not to transplant the cukes, because they apparently are gynoecious (all female flowers that need pollinating from other plants with male flowers). See this thread for info about the cukes.

[Sher]

The GZs made it to their forever home.  YAY!!!

[Shawn]

YAY... all replanted!

[lynnee]

The outdoor GZs have adapted nicely to their new space. So far, the EarthBox and Mother Nature are doing all the maintenance work!

[lynnee]

After 140 days, I finally ended the Farm 12XL Green Zebra garden. These plants started off in a Farm Plus, but needed more height, so I moved the deck to a Farm 12XL. They've done okay there, and have produced about a dozen ripe GZ tomatoes that H says taste right.

The plants would have benefitted from being held to a single stem, and more experimentation with nutrients seems to be needed. Today the two plants had about 8 green tomatoes that are refusing to ripen. They have looked like the photo for 2-3 weeks now. With a lot of luck, the tomatoes will ripen on the kitchen countertop.

This was a worthwhile learning experience, but I'm ready to try something else, especially when I have GZs growing outdoors!

[Sher]

It was interesting to follow.  I am so glad the outdoor plants are thriving!

[Shawn]

It is wonderful that the outdoors GZ have adapted. Wishing many many tomatoes.  As for the indoor ones, it was a nice experiment that garnered some nice fruits. 

Now to see what is next to grow for you.

[lynnee]

Today I ended two Bounty gardens. One had the Veranda Red plant that has produced prolifically--it had reached the end of its natural lifespan after 264 days. I'm sad to see it go.

The other had the two Banana peppers (grown from my saved seeds) that I nearly killed by leaving the pump unplugged. Both had come back with lots of foliage and some blooms, but I have too many peppers at present (Ancho Grande, Mocha Swirl, and the upcoming Sweet Heats GAL). With Ray out of the house for a week or two, I don't have an eager pepper eater around!

So I ended the banana peppers at 130 days, even though the roots still looked pretty good.

Now I have Tom Thumb peas, the aforementioned pepper plants, two tomato gardens (Veranda Reds and an AG Heirloom Red), the immortal eggplants, and the second Mini Munch cucumber. MM is doing great, and happily growing around and around the Bounty trellis. I got a 5" cuke from it today. I also have Green Zebras from the AG on the back patio.

I'm going to start a Dianthus garden in a Bounty soon, because the dianthus from the November GAL loved the front patio location. It just bloomed and bloomed!

It will be nice having only things that require little attention in the AGs for a bit. I need to get back to the clutter-clearing, because I may need to rearrange some furniture when Ray gets back home.

It will also be nice to have some empty AGs available for when someone here posts about something irresistible that they've planted!  There is already an empty Bounty reserved for the Sweet Heats GAL.

[Sher]

I feel so rich when I have an empty Aerogarden to anticipate planting something irrestible in, too, lynnee!

Your tomatoes and banana peppers had a very nice run! 

[lynnee]

Two Bounty gardens planted today.  

On top, lettuce.  At left, sage, romaine, arugula.  At right, salad greens, marvel of four seasons.

On the bottom, flowers.  At left, Wave Purple Tie Dye Petunias (3 pods).  At middle and right, Park Seed pelleted dianthus (5 pods) .  At far right, AG dianthus (1 pod).  

[lynnee]

Today I removed the Ancho Grande pepper, because I don't have much use for poblanos at present. Now there is plenty of space for the Mocha Swirl pepper. It got a pruning today. It's a sweet, mild pepper that I like. 🌶🌶🌶

Some of the new peppers are displaying stripes!  I'm not sure whether the variegated leaves are normal.  The plant was crowded by the Ancho Grande and wasn't getting good air circulation--time will tell!