Friday, May 8, 2009

I have take advantage of a warm humid day today and set out 6 of my peppers -but I have put the troughs in the cold frame for the time being -the weather really can't make its mind up what it is going to do -so better safe than sorry...

The outside 2 are Frigatello and the middle one California wonder
Then the outside two on this one are hot sizzle and the middle one is fiesta..
I have more upstairs but I wanted to get these out as they are needing more compost.
I also have 12 I have grown from a fridge pepper that have proper leaves on but are tiny -so I have popped them behind the fleece around one of the squash tubs as its really warm in there..

3 comments:

J's Mummy said...

Glad to see my peppers are about the same size as yours. I was starting to panic that they weren't big enough and wouldn't have a long enough season. Mine are saved seeds from a fridge one too

MrsH said...

Hi there

I have some smaller ones lol - I thought that If I could get them out into their final place they "might" come on a bit quicker...
If I have to I will leave them in the cold frame and then when they are to tall-tie the doors up and cover with plastic sheeting to make them somewhere nice n warm to stay...

ceridwen said...

Its handy to see the photos close up like this for me I find - as, being a visual person, when I see how many plants you have planted in the space available then I can just "carry" that picture in my head as to spacing on doing my own. Works better than thinking "Its x inches apart for this plant and y inches apart for that plant".

Still learning by trial and error here - I scattered a load of salad leaf seeds in one cat litter tray and rocket seeds in another and dont think that was a good idea. I'm going to have to haul out a lot of them now as best possible. Think next time - I will sow them in groups of 3 (in case of failure to germinate) at say 2" apart in these trays.

I like to do cut and come again type growing myself - its the only way one CAN really grow as a single person - as I only want a few leaves each meal and want to have a good mixture of types too.

I've got a few bowls of various salad plug plants just out unprotected now - figure I should be okay with that - as I'm not in a cold location and I see that my leetle back garden is 5C warmer than my location as a whole (so I seem to have a little microclimate all of my own here out back chez ceridwen.