Monday, June 15, 2009

Wittle Garden Babies and Pepper Toddlers

I wasn't planning on planting the sweet potato slips for another week, but I just couldn't take it anymore (they rooted really fast!). See that container in the back corner? Those are "Family Fun" watermelon seedlings. I picked those up at OSH this weekend, originally intending to replace my cantaloupe in my other RB, but that just ain't gonna happen. The cantaloupe are still struggling, but I'll give them a chance. I'll move the fourth SP slip to the left side of the bed, and plant the watermelon seedlings on the right, and have them trail/grow out the right side of the bed. Since I'll be training the SP vines up the deck, my only concern with having the watermelon in there will be the actual sweet potatoes taking up too much room in the bed. I've decided I'll be asking for a new camera for Christmas... Trying to take pictures up close with my current camera is hard, and since I'm taking a lot, I need a better camera... LOL... Here is my wittle bean baby with another pretty flower behind it... This is my lonely Green Bell pepper. I think I added a little TOO much bone meal to the plant... The leave's edges are a little burnt, and it's not producing new flowers right now. The unusually cool weather isn't helping any either... The Fresno Chili's are getting big (wiping drool from chin). He has been taking his dose of bone meal quite well...

2 comments:

  1. I know exactly how ya feel about the camera...what would be your first choice?

    So what is the bone meal suppose to do for your pepper plants? I use 1 tbs epsom salt with 16 oz of water in a spray bottle to spray tomato and pepper plants to increase blooms, does it do something similar?

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  2. Oh, I haven't even looked at cameras yet... I'll prolly leave that up to DH since he knows about that stuff (or abscond his nice one) LOL...
    The bone meal adds phosphorus (4-12-0) to help with blooms, and the epsom adds magnesium. I don't know anything about the epsom though...

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