Lynne's AG Activities

Oh wow, I never knew that the dry/warm air current from a vent could do that sort of damage!! That's good information to have!

Fortunately the warm air didn't kill any of the tomato plants. I did an R&R today, and found a dozen or so red tomatoes hiding under the canopies of the three plants that were most in the line of fire.

The crumbly leaves were mostly confined to stems that were crowded or not getting any light. I've never had large numbers of crumbly leaves on tomatoes before, though.

Today (3/19/23) I started two varieties of Sweet Banana peppers in an empty Bounty Elite. It's right next to the Bounty Elite with the two tomato seedlings (Veranda Red, AG Heirloom Red) that were moved from the Bounty Elite that started with 4 pods.

Today I started a couple more peppers in the Bounty with the Banana pepper seedlings. They are Rare Seeds Banana and Rare Seeds Fish peppers. The Fish pepper is an albino that produces striped peppers; it is widely used in African-American cuisine (according to the Rare Seeds catalog).

I have three Cilantro's growing too.  I guess this years batch are good because I had no luck last year,

Alas, the pepper garden is no more. The banana pepper was doing great, and produced a lot of peppers, but it suddenly fell over and the leaves went limp. I harvested the peppers--they'll be pickled today or tomorrow--to remove the weight, and tied the plant upright. The leaves improved, but it didn't look like the plant would produce again soon.

I decided to remove it, then cut the cord of the pump in freeing the roots! My clumsy attempts at replacing the pump disturbed the remaining fish pepper plant, so I took it out, too. Now I can't decide what to plant in the vacant garden. Probably flowers, but they don't need the Farm 12XL height ....



But on a happier note, my Celosia has finally bloomed after being transplanted outdoors!

Started a new lettuce garden today because the established Romaine and Merlot were ready to bolt. This time I planted a single pod of Merlot. Merlot gets huge, and produces a lot of great-tasting leaf lettuce!

Always exciting to see a plant setting fruit!

Today the Bounties got their delayed R&Rs. The water color proved that mature plants really do need R&Rs more frequently than once a month, as Aerogarden suggests. The four Bounties had gone 3.5 weeks.

I pruned the Veranda Red--cutting off stuff I didn't intend to, as usual. The roots looked okay, but are kinda brown and soft, so the plant won't last much longer (245 days now, I think). It's still producing lots of tomatoes.

The Dwarf Awesome tomato and Anaheim pepper had healthy roots. Unfortunately I gave both a double dose (10ml) of Cal-Mag. I'm not fond enough of either plant to drain them to correct the mistake, so we'll see what happens.

The Anaheim pepper had blossom-end rot on two developed peppers. Casualties of the delayed R&Rs, I think.

The Quick Snack cuke has healthy roots. I took off the really dry leaves. Again, we'll see what happens.