I'm new here but I wanted to start a grow log to capture what I am doing at home (and hopefully improve next year). I've just bought my first home and have some small space to grow plants in.
As I go, if anyone has any advice I'd love to hear it.
So far, I started germinating seeds about a month ago, and have the following plants:
IMG_1430 by coontentment, on Flickr
IMG_1428 by coontentment, on Flickr
IMG_1431 by coontentment, on Flickr
IMG_1427 by coontentment, on Flickr
Growing list:
squash - 3 jaune et verte
pumpkin - 3 buttercup, 3 potimarron, 1 golden nugget
cucumbers - 6 double yield cucumbers, 2 potato cucumbers
Capsicum - 1 sweet
eggplants - 5 rosa bianca, 4 snowy, 1 red, 5 ping tung, 5 thai long green
chillis - 3 aji charapita, 5 7-pot yellow, 2 bhut jolokia, 2 peach ghost, 3 purple cayenne, 1 Trinidad scorpion sunrise, 3 white habanero, 7 jalapeno, 1 chocolate habanero (not in pic - a friend got me one as a gift because I couldn't get any seeds to germinate), and 1 normal orange habanero (I bought this from bunnings for $2)
tomatoes - 3 bumblebee tomato, 3 tommy toe, 4 tiny tim, 1 black cherry, 4 sweetie
corn - 10 supersweet
Beans - 3 snake beans, 1 four angled bean,
...and some very sad pots with aji limon, rocoto, peter pepper seeds, and no love for me.
I also managed to keep 1 padron, 1 black capsicum, 1 bell pepper, and 1 bulls horn chilli alive over winter, as well as some ornamental chillis that my mum planted.
A lot of the seedlings were planted in jiffy pods to start with, but I really doubt that I would do this again - it looks like a lot of the pods were too hard for the plants to grow roots in. Is this common? The plants are indoors right now, but I put them out during the day to harden up, and they will be going outside soon.
As I go, if anyone has any advice I'd love to hear it.
So far, I started germinating seeds about a month ago, and have the following plants:
IMG_1430 by coontentment, on FlickrIMG_1428 by coontentment, on FlickrIMG_1431 by coontentment, on FlickrIMG_1427 by coontentment, on FlickrGrowing list:
squash - 3 jaune et verte
pumpkin - 3 buttercup, 3 potimarron, 1 golden nugget
cucumbers - 6 double yield cucumbers, 2 potato cucumbers
Capsicum - 1 sweet
eggplants - 5 rosa bianca, 4 snowy, 1 red, 5 ping tung, 5 thai long green
chillis - 3 aji charapita, 5 7-pot yellow, 2 bhut jolokia, 2 peach ghost, 3 purple cayenne, 1 Trinidad scorpion sunrise, 3 white habanero, 7 jalapeno, 1 chocolate habanero (not in pic - a friend got me one as a gift because I couldn't get any seeds to germinate), and 1 normal orange habanero (I bought this from bunnings for $2)
tomatoes - 3 bumblebee tomato, 3 tommy toe, 4 tiny tim, 1 black cherry, 4 sweetie
corn - 10 supersweet
Beans - 3 snake beans, 1 four angled bean,
...and some very sad pots with aji limon, rocoto, peter pepper seeds, and no love for me.
I also managed to keep 1 padron, 1 black capsicum, 1 bell pepper, and 1 bulls horn chilli alive over winter, as well as some ornamental chillis that my mum planted.
A lot of the seedlings were planted in jiffy pods to start with, but I really doubt that I would do this again - it looks like a lot of the pods were too hard for the plants to grow roots in. Is this common? The plants are indoors right now, but I put them out during the day to harden up, and they will be going outside soon.
