Okay flower marketing work took precedent for the last 3 days. Set up on Fri, and sales all day Saturday and Sunday. But finally got to do a whole lot of transplanting today!
Planted 75 tomatoes, 3 dz. Celebrity, 2 dz. La Roma, some heirlooms, Brandywine and Pineapple along with a couple of Sweet 100 cherry and a Grape tomato. Plus 3 of the great new TomatoBerry...so cool to look at with it strawberry shape and tastes great too!.
About 100 peppers altogether 3 dz. green bell peppers in 3 varieties Better Bell, Lady Belle, and Red Beauty. Plus 2 dz. of the sweet Italian Cubanelle pepper. Had Anahiem chili peppers this year a dozen of them. Always used to always grow them years ago when we started all our own but hard to get the plants otherwise at least it is for me. My usual Jalapeno, Hungarian Wax and Italian Hot Cherry peppers for canning but only planted 9 of each type as I most often end up with more than I can handle. Plus 3 of the Hot Portugal's for drying...again a very productive pepper.
Went with 18 brussel sprouts for this year a few more than last year I ran out of them way too soon at the end of last season only lasted until Thanksgiving or so
And also put in all the summer squash and zucchini plants, four of the ribbed Italian Costata Romaesco, three each of yellow zuke and two types of green zuke, three Cousa and three of the Mexican Grey.
Still need to pop in 48 Swiss Chard transplants too, but that wont take long at all. Should had done it earlier but hey I'm only one guy
They had said 100% chance of rain both today and tomorrow but the was only a shower overnight and I was able to get in most everything I needed to between 9am and 2 pm today. Ha raining some now.
Either Wednesday or Thursday after the rain passes and depending how wet things are I will put in the seeds for bush string beans, I chose Provider from Harris this year, had Tendergreen from Burpee last year and they were good but Harris has the best prices.
Sunflower transplants will go in too. Infared, Sunrise Orange, Sunrise Yellow, Ring of Fire and Soraya all came up good from seed in the greenhouse but the Frilly sunflower seed that Harris sent with them in the pkg bundle had problems
After that I can set up my pole bean poles for the Romano and Rattle Snake beans and then the cukes I started can go in too. The picklers look great Sumters I think they were, but the Straight 8 most are all yellowing and some are rotting away at the stem even in the greenhouse with the lack of sun and heat. Just too wet I guess. Oh well I can get some Raiders from work they are much better cucumber anyways and wicked productive.
Then if there's is any room left we can see what else. Maybe get some lettuce transplants from work and plant some of the sugar pumpkins I started from seeds I had saved last year.
But that'll be about it!
Still cool only 60's and rain most all week but the forecast is for high 80's next week.
Just in time for motorcycle week!
