Got my seeds started back in early February. Next year I will begin in December as many of my pepper plants stalled out after getting to be @ 5-6". Other veges did great under the lights and have transplanted well into the garden. This is my first season with a garden in the backyard, been using about an acre at my hunting camp but that's hard to manage being 120 miles away, but have been very succesful there. Tilled the yard up to about 50' x 20' and added 4x4x10's on the corners to set the fence up and 2 more for a gate. The deer in my neighborhood pass through daily in a group of 8-12. I put down a weed cloth over majority of it then added 3-6" of mulch to keep the moisture in since I'm away for wks at a time with work and the other half isn't into doing anything In the garden besides hitting the switch to run the sprinkler off the well, guess I have to give her a little slack since she is 7 month pregnant.
Anyhow I lost over 100 plants when I got called back to work to fill in for an injured crewman, had left about half of what I had outside to finish hardening off then go in the ground when I got back 4 days later. I looked at the temps and it was gonna be fine but missed the rain in the forecast. Rained 3 out if the 4 days I was gone and drowned just over 100 of 120 plants I had outside. Was a mix of mainly peppers with a pile of tomatoes and other stuff in there too, fortunately I still had another 100 or so left inside and was able to nearly fill the garden with what I had and only have to buy a few plants.
So they've been in the ground for 3 wks and things arelooking good. The tomatoes have a little infestation of aphids but my sister has been coming over to spray them with oil/water till I can get back and see if anything else needs to be done. Thinking of possibly introducing some extra ladybugs to fight them off, by I will need to add more flowery type crap before then so they stick around.
Will try to add some pics in and make a list of what's growing. Will update as I go.
Here's day 1 in the ground 5/4/13. Planted 3 rows of sweet corn in the back, their 6-10" now and anout 30 onions. Front left side 8'x8' has rows of turnips, beers and parsnips. Front right side 8'x8' has mixed greens.
This picture was from Thursday 5/23/13. Good bit of growth so far. Will start hitting it with compost tea in 10 days or so and hope things really take off from there.
List of peppers included so far is: Lemon Drop, 5 Color Mustard Habanero, Serranos, Thai Chilis, Tam Japs, Anaheim, Pepperocini, Plain Japs, Golden Marconi, Tabasco, Scoth Bonnet, Tequila and a few different Sweet Bells.
I have 4 Bhut's growing, but very slow still in pots. I plan on transplanting them to 5 gal pots and keeping them for a few yrs if possible, may put 1 in the ground next yr. Have Datil pepper seeds waiting at the house which I'll start and do the same with. Datil's are my favorite, my dog got out of his kennel months ago and ate a ton of my seed stash and all were deposited in the yard over the winter...
Anyhow I lost over 100 plants when I got called back to work to fill in for an injured crewman, had left about half of what I had outside to finish hardening off then go in the ground when I got back 4 days later. I looked at the temps and it was gonna be fine but missed the rain in the forecast. Rained 3 out if the 4 days I was gone and drowned just over 100 of 120 plants I had outside. Was a mix of mainly peppers with a pile of tomatoes and other stuff in there too, fortunately I still had another 100 or so left inside and was able to nearly fill the garden with what I had and only have to buy a few plants.
So they've been in the ground for 3 wks and things arelooking good. The tomatoes have a little infestation of aphids but my sister has been coming over to spray them with oil/water till I can get back and see if anything else needs to be done. Thinking of possibly introducing some extra ladybugs to fight them off, by I will need to add more flowery type crap before then so they stick around.
Will try to add some pics in and make a list of what's growing. Will update as I go.
Here's day 1 in the ground 5/4/13. Planted 3 rows of sweet corn in the back, their 6-10" now and anout 30 onions. Front left side 8'x8' has rows of turnips, beers and parsnips. Front right side 8'x8' has mixed greens.
This picture was from Thursday 5/23/13. Good bit of growth so far. Will start hitting it with compost tea in 10 days or so and hope things really take off from there.
List of peppers included so far is: Lemon Drop, 5 Color Mustard Habanero, Serranos, Thai Chilis, Tam Japs, Anaheim, Pepperocini, Plain Japs, Golden Marconi, Tabasco, Scoth Bonnet, Tequila and a few different Sweet Bells.
I have 4 Bhut's growing, but very slow still in pots. I plan on transplanting them to 5 gal pots and keeping them for a few yrs if possible, may put 1 in the ground next yr. Have Datil pepper seeds waiting at the house which I'll start and do the same with. Datil's are my favorite, my dog got out of his kennel months ago and ate a ton of my seed stash and all were deposited in the yard over the winter...
Ginourmous schrkimps dey iz. 
