SKULLBIKERS 2021 Everything BUT Peppers GOLOG

skullbiker · Jan 6, 2021

It's here, another year filled with vegetables, fruit, and other stuff!

The tomatoes are up, I planted 3 seeds per cell to be sure I was covered. 36 seeds planted.........34 germinated! Now I have a problem.................I have very rarely culled a seedling in my life, I used to have enough room to cover it, not so much now.........what a dilema.

ACHOCHA! Here too, I planted 12 saved seeds that were 7 or 8 years old. Ten germinated!

One of the pie pumpkin plants.

One of the Waltham Butternut Squash plants.

ahayastani · Jan 7, 2021

skullbiker said:
Now I have a problem.................I have very rarely culled a seedling in my life, I used to have enough room to cover it, not so much now.........what a dilema.

I know the feeling :mope:

skullbiker · Jan 7, 2021

ahayastani said:
I know the feeling

I may try to stick a few in the sand out behind the garage, I bought some organtuan/orgasmic/ORGANIC stuff to treat the soil to kill the root-knot nematodes that mutilated my plants roots there last year.

skullbiker · Jan 9, 2021

Update on the Bonnie cabbage starts I put in buckets on Dec. 5. Just about ready to start making heads.

Here's the Dragon Fruit(red) from the first seed of them I germinated, growing SLOW but sure.

Plantguy76 · Jan 10, 2021

Nice glog going on best of luck this season

dragonsfire · Jan 10, 2021

Good luck on the Veg !!

skullbiker · Jan 10, 2021

There's gonna be a bunch of vines!(I hope)

skullbiker · Jan 10, 2021

Plantguy76 said:
Nice glog going on best of luck this season

Thanks, here's the link if you want to glance at the 2020 thread:

http://thehotpepper.com/topic/73150-skullbikers-all-of-2020-outside-not-peppers-glog/page-1

skullbiker · Jan 10, 2021

dragonsfire said:
Good luck on the Veg !!

Same to you. Hopefully you will get a warm season.

skullbiker · Jan 14, 2021

I took this tray down today from the top shelf where it resides. Near the bottom of the photo a Red Dragonfruit seed has germinated and at the top is a new Passion Fruit seedling and just below and to the right of that is a Passion Fruit loop. I know, you're thinking "no big deal", but these seeds were sown on October 22, 2020. The last one germinated about 3 weeks ago.

skullbiker · Jan 15, 2021

A few pics of veggie stuff.
Cabbage in front, left rear are pie pumpkins, center rear are squash/zucchini, right rear are butternut squash.

Here is a closer look at those pie pumpkins, they are in gallon pots, the seeds were planted 12/22/2020.

The Achocha are going to need a permanant home soon.

skullbiker · Jan 21, 2021

Tomatoes

Celery

Megaton Cabbage

Watermelon

skullbiker · Jan 24, 2021

Planted out the summer squash today. Four in each 65 gal grow bag. The seeds for these were planted about 4 weeks ago.

skullbiker · Jan 25, 2021

I decided to start some Celery a while back. Here's how it looks when it germinates(kind of tiny).

Here's some about 1 1/2 week after it's been picked out of the starter cell and transplanted.

skullbiker · Jan 26, 2021

Here come the Daikon Radishes.

Part of the next bean crop.

Waltham Butternut Squash.

skullbiker · Jan 27, 2021

The tomatoes are growing fast, I had to spread them out a little.

ahayastani · Jan 27, 2021

Is there a special reason you start the tomato plantlets inside instead of outside? Just curious...

skullbiker · Jan 29, 2021

ahayastani said:
Is there a special reason you start the tomato plantlets inside instead of outside? Just curious...

They grow much faster before plant out under controlled conditions and are stronger/more vigorous. This way they have a fighting chance when they go on the final container. Although we have super weather here, we also have super pests above and below ground. I have found out that even my container plants were susceptible to the below ground nastys.

skullbiker · Jan 30, 2021

A volunteer tomato plant in one of last seasons containers. I don't know what it is but I'm going to grow it out.(like I need another tomato plant)

Summer Squash

First flower on the summer squash.

skullbiker · Jan 31, 2021

Big veggie update.
The Daikon radishes are about ready to be thinned out.

The new bean crop is crankin' up fast.

The Peas are peakin' out.

Some Red Acre Cabbage started from seed about ready to be planted out.

A few of the watermelon plants started from seed.

The Bonnie Cabbage plants from some time ago are doing really well and are definitely beginning to form heads.

That's it for now, tomato portraits tomorrow!