Posts Tagged ‘plants’

and the rain continues

June 10th, 2010

Well the rain continues to fall in the prairies.  It was a small battle to work around all the rain that has passed through in order to get the tomato and eggplant transplants in the ground.  All the plants are in now and hopefully they will survive, grow and produce.  The plants didn’t go to the ground in the healthiest condition.  I had kept the plants in cold, wet and crowded trays for to long.

I basically have everything else planted (with the exception of a few rows).  Most of the seeds are germinated now but have been slow to grow with the lack of sunshine.  My first market day has been pushed back by another week.

and the dugout level gets even higher.

The Transplants Move Outside

May 26th, 2009

transplants

I didn’t really want to post this picture because many of the plants don’t look overly healthy, but for the record… The weather kept dropping to freezing temperatures around 5 to 7 below and I did not have a heated outside structure to put my plants into.  This became a problem about two or three weeks ago when I ran out of grow light space and everything started to get really leggy.  I transplanted everything into bigger pots and had to keep the house lights on to try and give everything a little bit of light.  On the weekend however I managed to move a lot of the plants outside to get real sunlight.  Now hopefully they will start to toughen up a little in preparation for their next move into the garden.

Hot House Required

April 14th, 2009

hot house frame

You have to like good deals.  We picked up this garage shelter package on sale for a great deal.  The plan is to turn this frame into a season extending hot house.  For this year I’m going to just use 6 mil vapour barrier poly.  It’s a cheap solution that should work.  You hear warnings about the poly turning yellow and going brittle because it’s not rated for UV but from past experience you can definetly get at least one season.

pepper plants again

Hopefully the hot house becomes functional shortly because the pepper plants I started were ready for transplanting last week and I need more space if I transplant them into larger pots.

The tomato plants and eggplants were started last week and have now germinated.  The heirloom Brandywine tomatoes definitely had more irregularity in germination then the hybrids.