Tomorrow, Memorial Day, is going to be Tomato and Pepper planting day. The cold frame is full and needs to be emptied. I will start delivering plants to family and friends who are expecting them and get my own in the ground.
Remember April 26th when I transplanted tomatoes from cells to pots and found that a lot of my odd colored varieties had been smothered by my Barlow and Amish Brandywine type varieties? Well they had 4 weeks to get it in gear and they did fine. The Dwarf Plants survived, except for the cherry variety that did not survive transplant. I replaced that one with a purchased Sun Sugar plant.
Below I placed the pots in the same order as the photo above. The ones that survived are healthy and a nice plantable size. The rest are MONSTERS. I've trimmed the lower leaves in preparation for planting them very deeply.
Most of them show heavy scarring on the stem that I believe is from fungus gnats. I tried a gnat killer that you water into the soil, but it didn't make a dent. I caught hundreds on yellow sticky traps.
The ornamental pepper plants are blooming and putting out peppers
I planted the Bell Peppers and Hot Peppers and protected them with frost cloth.
The containers for the ornamentals are filled, and the supports for the tomato plants are driven. All I have to do is plant.
I put shredded bark mulch in the raspberry/blackberry bed.
When I was weeding the grapevine bed I noticed that the white grape is sending out shoots from the root level. The first two leaf nodes on the stem still have live looking sprouts, but the main growth is lower. Because this vine appeared to be self rooted and not grafted, root level sprouts should be fine. But I will try to keep both levels of vine growing to be sure. I sent an inquiry to the company to try to verify. Maybe I should just dig around and take a better look at the roots....
My Dahlias tubers are breaking the soil.
I have been working on annual containers. This tall white planter contains the Proven Winner's Recipe of the Year Pixie Powder. It is purely coincidental that I chose the Recipe of the Year. I've had my eye on this combination for a couple of years because I love flowers in the peach color palette. It may account for the plants being more readily available though. Usually by the time I go looking for them, they are sold out.
When I saw these peach colored Esmay Begonias at the local Amish Greenhouse, I snapped them right up. I didn't really know what I was going to do with them, so now I wish I had grabbed a couple more, but they will fill out. Their mature width is supposed to be 22". I'll try to over winter these. I'm going to use my handful of leftover Profusion Apricot Zinnia plants along the edge of the neighboring landscape bed.
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