April Greenhouse Update

The greenhouse is packed with mainly tomatoes and pepper plants. I actually only finished potting up the peppers and tomatoes into individual containers a couple days ago on Wednesday.

One thing I decided not to grow is eggplant. And there won't be any spring lettuce or anymore spinach since the seedlings all bolted in the greenhouse.

Aunt Molly's ground cherry, I'm trying three different varieties of ground cherries and this one happens to be the largest so far. They are supposed to have a tropical but savory flavor, and they start out as the tiniest seeds and the tiniest seedlings ever.

Ambrosia is another named variety of ground cherries. I'm so excited to be growing them for the first time, I've been watching lots of YouTube videos about cooking with them.

This is actually an unnamed variety of ground cherries. It didn't germinate until it got very warm in the greenhouse, but it's a fast grower and is now a little bigger than the Ambrosia variety.

Pablano and jalapeno peppers. The pablano peppers didn't germinate until it got quite warm but they did end up with full germination.

Padron peppers. There was a bit of a disaster with the peppers and only 1/3 survived from the early seeding. They were reseeded when the tomatoes were sown which is why their sizes are so variable.

Odessa and Feher Ozon peppers are new to me varieties. We're mainly growing sweet peppers this year.

This tub has Sun Gold, Black Vernissage, and the potato leaved Yellow Brandywine tomato plants.

Aunt Ruby's German Green, Pink Berkley Tie-Dye, and Juanne Flamme are doing well in this tub. The tomato plants are at various stages of growth. A lot of things didn't germinate until it got truly warm in the greenhouse like Big Rainbow, Hillbilly Flame, and Ananas Noire.

Marianna's Peace is another potato leaved tomato.

Kale and escarole/endive share a flat and behind them is a whole flat of leeks.

The newly potted up onions and more kale are hanging out under a table until they recover some. Behind them are some kohlrabi.

Here's a big bucket of cutting celery which is destined for a little plot of land behind the greenhouse, in prior years this fallow area had been home to many a weed. I can't believe I finally got leaf celery to germinate.

Gigante parsley. This year I'm trying to grow more herbs in general.

It's supposed to be warm and sunny this week, so hopefully it'll dry out the garden and maybe we'll be able to till next weekend. I am so ready to get planting underway.

There are still lots of varieties that still need to be started like Asian greens, beets, basil, perilla, melons, etc. The rain has made me a bit apathetic in terms of seed starting, but the bulk of it should be done in a day or two.

I hope everyone has a lovely weekend.

Greenhouse Update

Tomato plants in the greenhouse are really tall, the ones in the quart yogurt containers are between 18 and 24 inches tall. It must be the greenhouse making them grow like this, they look leggy to me.

More weirdly tall tomato plants. It's been a warm and very very windy last couple of days so hopefully the ground will dry out soon and I can get some planting done.

Can you see the blossoms forming on the tall one in the middle? Yeah, they're everywhere. Almost all the tomato plants have flowers.

Nice fluffy leaved eggplants. I've killed 3 flea beetles and there doesn't seem to be anymore damage so far.

And the pepper seedlings are still doing ok. Most of the plants are of the Numex anaheim types like Big Jim and Joe E. Parker, but I also got Jalafuego hybrid and Aji Lemon to germinate as well as Early Jalapeno.

And the Mizuna and Tatsoi are out of control. There's 6 Mizuna plants in styrofoam cups under that mess of leaves, I've been picking off outer leaves lately and they actually seem happier for it.

It's probably a good thing I wasn't able to get anything planted before the rain. By Sunday our entire backyard was underwater. My husband said a couple of roads were still washed out on Monday when he went to pick up some rabbit manure for the garden. But luckily a couple of really windy warmish days have dried out a lot of it.

In other news, my partner built a deck in our backyard in April which has been inspiring him to do some grilling. Today he grilled steaks, asparagus, Brussels sprouts, and pineapple. So good. It's going to be a wonderful summer of grilling.