re: Garden Updates

How deep did you plant the golds? I wonder if I plant them deeper in a box they will produce more rather than just barely covering them and adding soil and it grows.

I got 20 tomatoe seedlings growing 10 black crim and 10 Cherokee gonna plant 1st week of April

I'm watching the weather closely too

There's a slight frost this morning. I hope everything survives.

Everything is going well so far for my garden. Tomatoes are blooming. Even some of the potato plants have begun to bloom. I will side dress them this weekend. I am trying something new with the peppers. I pruned the tops off of all of my pepper plants. I snipped all the plants right above the second set of leaves to get the plants to full out more and not be so leggy like they normally are. So far, so good. All but two have leaf shoots coming out at the leaf junctions 5 days later. This is supposed to make the plants much wider and bushier for better production. I figured it was early enough in the season that it was worth a shot. If they die, there is plenty of time for more to replace.

I’ve heard spreading cayenne pepper will do the trick for dogs and cats. I’m about to try it. I’ve been having a problem with cats.

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I’ve heard spreading cayenne pepper will do the trick for dogs and cats.

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I spread about a fricken cup of cayenne pepper all over my beds after I found the third cat turd beside one of my pepper plants yesterday. I will report back. Citrus is supposed to be a deterrent for cats as well. I planted a citronella plant last year and had 0 cats in the bed. Just no room for the plant this year.

Just got home. Looks like the cold air didn’t phase the plants at all.

Thanks.

I fear that if I ever make a much bigger garden, that setup won’t be very practical. It would probably cost too much for what I’d get out of it. I’ll cross that bridge if I ever come to it.