I got the tray of peppers and eggplants potted up to give away on Saturday. There are little green peppers on some of the pepper plants. You can see little white flowers on some of them if you look closely. Well - the little peppers somehow come out of the flowers and push all the petals off. I have no idea which peppers are which anymore. Some though have different coloured straws inserted next to them and this means they are different types. I will make sure I get a little collection of various coloured straws for myself so that I can help some others figure out what I've given them. Next year I will be better when I do the repotting up. I was good up until then and knew what was what but once they left their little squares that was it - nameless and mute. And there are about three rather big tomatoes on another one of the whippersnappers, too! I got a couple of e-mails from volunteers at the greenhouse letting me know that one pot of them was looking rather sickly. I went in to rescue it and found one whippersnapper bursting with tomatoes and dropping it's flowers and bottom leaves (which I think they are supposed to drop anyways because they aren't true leaves). As soon as I gave it a little compost and water it cheered right back up. I separated it from it's little friends in the pot and they are all doing very well on their own. I think the one with the 3 tomatoes was stressed after producing them all at once and so quickly.
Mine are pretty embarrassingly big compared to all the others. It
just looks like I feed students who don't do homework to them. I
do admit they are a full-time job on top of the one I already have!
The yellow tags mean 'water me even if I'm soaking wet already' ...
lots of water and a dash of mushroom compost seems to work! Oh
and also, I started mine at home on heat pads and then under lights.
The ones I started in the greenhouse are as tiny as everyone elses.
I think the greenhouse temperatures fluctuated too much in March.
So give them a good start and then send them off into the world ...
& dress'em in a flamboyant colour like red so you know where they are.
And I didn't really talk to them - I know some people believe in that ...
but they might have been listening to me when I was talking to myself?
And don't be totally fooled, Helen's shelf, the one below mine is now on
its second shelf load of plantings. Her cucumbers are almost edible now.
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