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April
April


Yellow Cayenne sprouts are showing green. Still haven't put them in cellpacks. Going to put the 3 Jalapeno sprouts in peat pots.
All the Indigo Rose tomatoes are sprouting in the egg carton.
Killed a Ukraine Sword seedling. The leaves were stuck in the seed.
A single Shishito has sprouted. Planted 4 Jalapenos in peat pots with 1 left to be planted, and planted 12 Yellow Cayenne in the Thai Basil cellpack since nothing came up yet. Have 12 Yellow Cayenne left which are going 4 to a peat pot.
Cascabel is beginning to sprout.
Should get calcium-magnesium pills to give to the pepper plants to prevent blossom end rot later on.

Lettuce has 3 sprouts, Escarole has 3.

02

Planning on planting 1 squash of each variety into a large pot by the tree. The most sun is there and the plant will create nice cover over the fence, and we can determine which if any squash are able to grow in a pot.
On the side of the garden west of the tree we'll plant 2 x 2 rows, maybe 2 x 3.
Still determining whether we should plant 3 to a hill in this format.
Planted 13 Yellow Cayenne seedlings into a cellpack. There's only 2 or 3 seeds left unsprouted.

There are 9 Cascabels sprouted earlier today, now there's 13. Will plant them tomorrow when their roots are longer.

Plants we have indoors: (and still starting)

1 - Grape Tigrella red x12
2 - Heirloom yellow grape x2
3 - Small heirloom red multicolor x4
4 - Small Yellow x3
5 - Yellow Small x3
6 - Small multicolor heirloom x3
7 - Indigo Rose x4

8. Cherokee purple x7
9. Ukraine sword x8
10. Tigrella x11
11. Orange x4
12. Big White Pink Stripe x4
13. Green zebra B x4
14. Yellow tomato pink inside x4
15. Black and red (Indigo rose)
16. 5 stripe chocolate x4
17. Green zebra A x4
18. Kumato x7

Plants outdoors:

Sm Yellow x13
Yellow Grape x5
Sm Multicolor x3
Sm Multicolor x10
Tigrella Grape x5

Remaining Tomatoes that have been outdoors:

6. sm multicolor x3
5. yellow small x1
2. yellow grape x3

Planted today:
19 Cascabel
2 Jalapeno
1 Shishito
All in one cellpack, with Cascabel sprouts doubled up.

Put more Poblano seeds to soak today, and put the last two Yellow Cayenne seeds in the YC cellpack, though they didn't sprout yet.
Planted 3 #2 Yellow Grape in the Outdoor cellpack where they had died. Put all the Outdoor plants by the room window.

Sprouts are just starting to come up in tomato cellpacks planted in March, and the egg cartons.
Planted today 9 varieties of tomatoes 4x each, two seeds in each cell:
3 Small red multicolor
4 Yellow
5 Yellow
6 sm multicolor
7 Indigo Rose
8 Cherokee purple
10 Tigrella
13 Green zebra B
18 Kumato


Planning to plant a few Futsu today. Put 4 seeds to soak.
Tomato sprouts coming up in cellpacks: kumato, green zebra, grape tigrella.

04

Put seeds in the 1st cellpacks that didn't come up.
All Cascabels have sprouted.
Some of the seed potatoes soaking water have 1 inch long roots growing form the eyes, so we turned the potatoes upside down and put all the eyes in the water. The sweet potato pieces are just beginning to grow roots.

Thinking of transplanting the big tomatoes from cellpacks into Solo cup-sized pots.
Bought 4 orange Calla bulbs today and some Freesia multicolor - will separate for orange and purple ones. They were $6 each package at Rona.
Bought 3 flower bulb packs yesterday from Dollarama for $2.50 each.

Found aphids(brown specks) on pepper plants in the room. Sprayed all plants with Windex and rinsed them off. Tomato plants fell and the ones in the 1st cellpacks got damaged.
Jalapeno is showing up today, two sprouts. Leaves are stuck in the seed.
Put Thai basil to sprout in wet napkins over the oven.

06

Planning to transplant tomatoes from egg cartons and cell packs to bigger pots.
Also planning to plant squash seeds in peat pots, and in cell packs morning glory, spring onion.
Sprayed for aphids again this morning, and put green onion plants as we noticed no aphids went in with them.
We have 18 big tomato plants so far:
Bathroom: 3 sm multi x4 (big)
5 yellow sm x3 (big, 1 sm)
16 x1 (fell, limp)
12 bwps x1 (fell)
17 green zebra x1 (fell)
11 orange x2 (fell)
Sprouts: 16 bwps x2
11 orange x1
Sprouts:

Kitchen:
2 yellow grape x1 (big)
5 sm yellow x3 (big)
6 sm multi x3 (big)
4 sm yellow x3 (big)
2 sm yellow x1 (big)
2 yellow grape x1 (small, limp)
Egg carton:
14 yellow pink x2 (tall)
13 green zebra b x2 (1 big, 1 sprout)
15 indigo x1 (small)
Living room:
9 Ukraine sword x1 (tall)
10 Tigrella x4 (sprouts)
Cells: tigrella Grape x1 (sprout)
Green zebra x2 (sprout)
Kumato x3 (sprout)
Tigrella x3 (sprout)
2 yellow grape x1 (small, limp)

Planted:
Lettuce, escarole (half germination)
1st cellpacks: BWPS x4, Orange x3, black oxheart x2, green zebra x4
Egg cartons (double planted): tigrella x1, Cherokee purple x4
Indigo rose x3, yellow pink inside x2, green zebra b x2

Planted Futsu squash seeds, 4 seeds in 3 peat pots.
Planted the last 9 Cascabel peppers in with the rest of them. Had 100% germination from a fresh pepper, dried seeds for a week then put to sprout.

Transplanted from eggcarton: Green zebra x1, yellow pink inside x2 to cellpacks, Ukraine sword x1 to milk carton.
Nicked the top of the Jalapeno sprouts so that they might open their leaves. This worked once with a tomato seedling.

08

Sprayed one of the pepper plants for aphids. Planted green onion ends in most of the tomatoes and peppers by the window.
2 plants that fell died.
Tomatoes planted on April 3 are starting to come up.
Yellow cayennes are beginning to grow 1st true leaf.
Planted two 5 small Yellow tomato seeds in the cream container.
Put Shishito seeds to sprout where Cascabel was.

Planted 8 varieties of tomato, 3 cells each, 2 seeds per cell:
Black Oxheart
Tigrella
Cherokee purple
6 small multicolor
17 green zebra a
3 small red multicolor
indigo rose

Next time will plant in cream containers:
Orange
BWPS

Planted today: cellpack of spring onion, 3 seeds to a cell.
Morning glory, 2 seeds to a cell. Had just enough seeds from dollar store to plant 1 cellpack.

10

Honeynut seeds are in water soaking with edge knicked.
Second Grape Tigrella sprout is up. Lots of other tomato sprouts are coming up.
Purple yam and sweet potato scraps put to soak yesterday. 1st batch Sweet potatoes are making roots.
Got Kiwiberry (hardy kiwi) and took some seeds yesterday. Put the rest in the fridge for stratification.
Rooting a basil stem by putting it with rooting Coleus in water.

Plant inventory:
Poblanos not coming up.
Thai Basil is not sprouted
Shishito is not up. None sprouting either.
Futsu is not up. Planted recently.
Green onion seed not up. Planted recently.
Sweet potato and purple yam not up.

Jalapeno is up.
Yellow Cayenne is up.
Sunset pepper is up.
Cascabel is up.
Tomatoes are up.
Tomatillos are up.
Lettuce & Escarole is up. New sprouts today.
Strawberries are up.
Volunteer squash is up.
Potatoes are rooting and growing but no leaves yet.
Beets, Radish are growing leaves.

It snowed today. Very cold.

12

Morning glory seeds have sprouted. There's about 3 or 4, and one has it's leaves open.
2 tomato plants appear to have recovered from being outdoors too early.
The Daikon radish is growing roots in water. Moved it to a bigger jar.
The green radish outdoors are withered above soil and fine at the soil level. Need more dirt to cover them. Might be burying leaves of other plants to do so.
Collected kiwiberry seeds from 6-12 fruit. Going to plant some soon. Might want to start stratification process first.

13

Sunny and nice morning, no coat required outside. Cold wind though.
Replanted all the tomatoes that didn't come up, and dated them with a tag.
The Thai basil and poblano over the stove got mold on them and are getting thrown out. Next time will punch holes in the plastic bag.

Sold 12 tomato plants, the 3 biggest #3 multicolor heirloom, x4 yellow grape, and Ukraine sword, and x4 Tigrella from the egg cartons.

Tomato sprouts are coming up everywhere, except 1 cellpack planted recently.

Planted a few Yellow Cayenne straight into soil as the cellpack has 2 empty cells. Need more cellpacks now. Spring onion has just sprouted.

Planting Honeynut today.

Planted 2 organic blood orange seeds today.
Kitchen Tomatoes:
3 sm multi x3 (big)
4 sm yellow x3 (big)
2 yellow grape x1 (big)
Yellow sm x1 (big)
Cell 1: (sprouts getting 3rd leaf)
Tigrella x4
13 green zebra x1
17 green zebra x3
Cell 2: (baby sprouts) not replanted on 13.
3 red multi
6 sm multi x2
17 x2
15
Cell 2: (getting 4th leaves)
Green zebra x2
Cherokee purple
Kumato x2
Tigrella
Cell 3: (baby sprouts) Ones that replaced fallen plants. Not replanted on 13.
11 orange x1
17 x1
12 x1
16 x3

Egg carton: getting 5th leaf.
15 indigo x1
14 yellow pink
13 green zebra b x1

Bathroom:
Cells: planted recently, no sprouts. Not replanted on 13.
Kumato
Tigrella
Cherokee purple
16 black oxheart

Cells: of 4.
14 yellow pink x2 (big) replanted on 13.
Green zebra b x1 (big)

Cells: baby sprouts, replanted on 13. Of 4.
2 yellow grape x2

Egg carton: replanted on 13.
Cherokee purple
Ukraine sword

Cells: getting 4th leaf. Replanted on 13.
Kumato x2
Tigrella x3
Ukraine sword

Cells: not replanted on 13.
6 sm multi
8 Cherokee purple
3 red multi x1 (baby sprout)

3 sm multi x1 (medium size)
2 yellow grape x1 (medium size)

Box: of 3
5 sm yellow x2 big x1 sprout

Living room:
Cells: grape tigrella x1 big x1 small

Cells:
5 yellow sm x1
Kumato x1
4 sm yellow x2

Have / Expecting: (cells only) [# big plants]

1 - Grape Tigrella red 2 / 12
2 - Heirloom yellow grape 2 / 2 [ x2 (big)]
3 - Small heirloom red multicolor 1 / 7 [x4 (big) ]
4 - Small Yellow 2 / 4 [x3 (big) ]
5 - Yellow Small 1 / 4 [x4 (big)]
6 - Small multicolor heirloom 2 / 7
8. Cherokee purple 0 / 14
9. Ukraine sword 0 / 8
10. Tigrella 7 / 14
11. Orange 1 / 4
12. Big White Pink Stripe 1 / 4
13. Green zebra B 3 / 9
14. Yellow tomato pink inside 2 / 6
15. Black and red (Indigo rose) 1 / 7
16. 5 stripe chocolate 3 / 7
17. Green zebra A 5 / 11
18. Kumato 5 / 14

General numbers:
19 yellow grape/cherry tomatoes
18 multicolor cherry (not incl gr. tigrella)
14 red tigrella
4 orange
10 yellow large
20 green zebra
7 black and red
7 oxheart
14 brown

15

Planted the rest of Cherokee Purple seeds. Put Honeynut and Futsu squash seeds to soak yesterday. Planting tomatoes 4x each: 11. Orange, 15 Indigo Rose, 16 Black Oxheart. Planted 2 Yellow Grape in the empty Ukraine Sword spot.
2 Black Oxheart are coming up in cellpacks planted on 8th.

Spring onions have been coming up for 2 days now. Tomato sprouts in cellpacks planted on the 8th are coming up.
Put planted potatoes outside, mainly to make room. It's going to frost tonight between 2-0 C so will take them in at night. No more frost predicted for next few weeks. Next Monday temp is going down to 3 at night. That's the lowest predicted for the month.
Buds are on the red currant and gooseberry (small green fruit for jam). No buds on blackberry.

1 - Grape Tigrella red 2 / 12
2 - Heirloom yellow grape 2 / 5 [ x2 (big)]
3 - Small heirloom red multicolor 1 / 7 [x4 (big) ]
4 - Small Yellow 2 / 4 [x3 (big) ]
5 - Yellow Small 1 / 4 [x4 (big)]
6 - Small multicolor heirloom 2 / 7
8. Cherokee purple 0 / 14
9. Ukraine sword 0 / 8
10. Tigrella 7 / 14
11. Orange 1 / 8
12. Big White Pink Stripe 1 / 4
13. Green zebra B 3 / 9
14. Yellow tomato pink inside 2 / 6
15. Black and red (Indigo rose) 1 / 11
16. 5 stripe chocolate 3 / 11
17. Green zebra A 5 / 11
18. Kumato 5 / 14

16

Futsu seeds have sprouted. There's two sprouts.
Planning on doing a mass planting of tomato seeds. 30 in a cream container. Going to use up all the seed we have.
Planted all these seeds: 11.Orange, 13 Green Zebra B, 14 Yellow Pink Inside, 4 Small Yellow, 2 Yellow Grape, 17 Green Zebra A. 3 are in one cream container with dividers, 3 are in their own cream container, the half size.
Will need big cream container to plant the rest: Tigerella, kumato, BWPS, Black Oxheart
Small cream containers: red multicolor, small multicolor
Planted in egg carton today: BWPS x4, tigrella x2, black oxheart x2, indigo rose x2, 6. multicolor x2
1 - Grape Tigrella red 2 / 12
2 - Heirloom yellow grape 2 / 5 [ x2 (big)]
3 - Small heirloom red multicolor 1 / 7 [x4 (big) ]
4 - Small Yellow 2 / 4 [x3 (big) ]
5 - Yellow Small 1 / 4 [x4 (big)]
6 - Small multicolor heirloom 2 / 9
8. Cherokee purple 0 / 14
9. Ukraine sword 0 / 8
10. Tigrella 7 / 16
11. Orange 1 / 8
12. Big White Pink Stripe 1 / 8
13. Green zebra B 3 / 9
14. Yellow tomato pink inside 2 / 6
15. Black and red (Indigo rose) 1 / 13
16. 5 stripe chocolate 4 / 13
17. Green zebra A 5 / 11
18. Kumato 5 / 14

17

Kitchen - cell 1:
Orange x1, 17 x2, 12x1, 16 x3
Cell 2:
Green zebra x2, Kumato x2
Cell 3:
Tigrella x6, 13 x1, 17 x3
Cell 4:
3 x1, 6 x3, 17 x1, 15 x1
Cell 5:
3 x1
Egg carton:
Indigo x1, 13 x1
Living room:
Kumato x1, Tigrella x3
Cell 2:
14 yellow pink x2, Green zebra b x1
Bathroom:
Cell 1:
5 x1, Kumato x1, 4 x2
Cell 2:
2 yellow grape x2
Cell 3:
Tigrella x1, 16 x2

Totals:
1 - Grape Tigrella red 2 / 12
2 - Heirloom yellow grape 2 / 5 [ x2 (big)]
3 - Small heirloom red multicolor 2 / 7 [x4 (big) ]
4 - Small Yellow 2 / 4 [x3 (big) ]
5 - Yellow Small 1 / 4 [x4 (big)]
6 - Small multicolor heirloom 3 / 9
8. Cherokee purple 0 / 14
9. Ukraine sword 0 / 8
10. Tigrella 10 / 16
11. Orange 1 / 8
12. Big White Pink Stripe 1 / 8
13. Green zebra B 3 / 9
14. Yellow tomato pink inside 2 / 6
15. Black and red (Indigo rose) 2 / 13
16. 5 stripe chocolate 5 / 13
17. Green zebra A 8 / 11
18. Kumato 4 / 14
We have 61 tomato plants in total.
Thinking of taking cutting from tomato plant and rooting it.
Planting and soaking more squash seeds today. Going to put 1 to a peat pot.
Planted all the remaining tomato seeds. Left a few seeds in the bags, mainly tigrella and black oxheart.
Planted 6 Honeynut and 6 Futsu seeds in peat pots.

Going to soak more squash seeds today. Need more peat pots and cellpacks though.
Also thinking of sprouting more sunset peppers and fresh poblano seed.

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Yesterday put squash seeds to soak and made a new tray for peppers - put on it sunset pepper, shishito, jalapeno and left a space for he poblano seeds. The previous squash seeds are in their peat pots.

Today took some cuttings from tomato plants, after rinsing the aphids off. 2 yellow grape x1, and 3 multicolor x2. Tied string to the yellow grape cutting. Put them with the rooting coleus.
There's one more tomato plant that might be big enough to take a cutting.

The tomatoes are 2"-8" tall. Big ones were 1' tall before we cut them.
Pepper plants are 1.5"-2" tall.
Big tomatillos are over 1' tall. Smaller ones are 3"-5" tall.
Bathroom: Cells 13: 4 x4, Kumato x6, 5 x5
Cells 13: Tigrella x3, Kumato x1
Cells: 2 x4 (sprouts)
Living room: 16 x4, Tigrella x2, Kumato x1
Kitchen: Egg carton: Indigo rose x1, 13 x1
Cells: 14 x2, 13 x1
Cells:17 x2, Kumato x2, Tigrella x4
Cells: of four. 11 x1, 16 x3, 17 x2, 12 x2
Cells: Tigrella x6, 13 x1, 17 x3
Cells: 3 x1, 6 x4, 17 x1, 15 x2
Totals:
1 - Grape Tigrella red 2 / 12
2 - Heirloom yellow grape 2 / 5 [ x1 cutting]
3 - Small heirloom red multicolor 1 / 7 [x4 (big), 2x cutting ]
4 - Small Yellow 4 / 4 [x3 (big) ]
5 - Yellow Small 5 / 4 [x4 (big)]
6 - Small multicolor heirloom 4 / 9
8. Cherokee purple 0 / 14
9. Ukraine sword 0 / 8
10. Tigrella 15 / 16
11. Orange 1 / 8
12. Big White Pink Stripe 2 / 8
13. Green zebra B 3 / 9
14. Yellow tomato pink inside 2 / 6
15. Black and red (Indigo rose) 3 / 13
16. 5 stripe chocolate 7 / 13
17. Green zebra A 8 / 11
18. Kumato 10 / 14

We have 69 tomato sprouts, plus 11 bigger plants, and 3 cuttings trying to root. In all, we have 83 tomato plants.
Honeynut planted on 13th is trying to sprout today.
Sold 2 Yellow Grape x2 today, and plan on selling 3 Yellow Cayenne pepper plants.
Put fresh Poblano seeds to soak.

Planted Futsu and Honeynut today in newspaper pots.

21

All pepper seedlings (cascabel) got the damp. Whole cellpack is dead so going to change soil.
Considering using egg cartons with toilet paper tubes cut in half.
Put orange habanero seeds to soak. Planted kiwiberries (no strat.) Put more poblano seeds from fresh pepper to soak.
Only have 2 morning glory sprouts.
Tomato seeds mass planted on 15th are starting to sprout now.
Started our compost heap in the large white bucket, emptied 5 litre containers of stuff turning into brown goo, then coverd with leaves. At first there was a strong smell of onions/sulphur, but it has gone away a few hours after.

living room: 16 x4, 10 x2, kumato x1
Kitchen:
Cells:
17 x4, 2 lg 1 m 1 sm
13 x1 m
10 x8 4 lg 4 sm
Cells:
15 x2 sm
17 x1 m
6 x4, 1m 3 sm
3 x1 m
Cells x4:
11 x2, 1 sm 1 m
16 x4, 3 m 1 sm
12 x3, 1 m, 2 sm
17 x2 m
Cells:
Green zebra x4, 2 m, 2 sm
Kumato x2 m
Tigrella x6 sm
Cells small:
14 x2 m
Green zebra x1 m
Egg carton:
Indigo rose x1 sm
Cells small:
2 yellow grape x5 sm
Egg carton:
Indigo rose x1 m
Green zebra b x1 m
Bathroom:
Cells:
Tigrella x5 3m 2 sm
Kumato x1 m
Cells:
4 x4 2m 2 sm
Kumato x6 1 m 5 sm
5 x9 1m 8 sm
Totals:
1 - Grape Tigrella red 2 / 12
2 - Heirloom yellow grape 5 / 5 [ x1 cutting]
3 - Small heirloom red multicolor 1 / 7 [x4 (big), 2x cutting ] (1m)
4 - Small Yellow 4 / 4 [x3 (big) ] (2m)
5 - Yellow Small 9 / 4 [x4 (big)] (1m)
6 - Small multicolor heirloom 4 / 9 (1m)
8. Cherokee purple 0 / 14
9. Ukraine sword 0 / 8
10. Tigrella 21 / 16 (7m/lg)
11. Orange 2 / 8 (1m)
12. Big White Pink Stripe 3 / 8 (1m)
13. Green zebra B 3 / 9 (1m)
14. Yellow tomato pink inside 2 / 6 (2m)
15. Black and red (Indigo rose) 4 / 13 (1m)
16. 5 stripe chocolate 8 / 13 (3m)
17. Green zebra A 8 / 11
18. Kumato 10 / 14 (4m)
89 tomato seedlings.

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Poblanos sprouted, about 7 or 8 of them. The other batch of poblano seeds got mold on them. Need more holes in the bag.
Repotted two Tigrella Grape. They are getting big and one was root bound with roots going everywhere and out the bottom.
Yesterday we transplanted the Yellow Cayenne x3 and one died. Didn't use the good palm soil mix but will next time. Dried out the Sunset peppers as they were too wet after cleaning the aphids off. Today two of the smaller Sunset peppers look nearly dead. We have 4 healthy Sunset plants in total.

Today moved our spring onion seedlings and morning glory outside, which we only have 1 now.
Planted Sweet Potato in peat pot. It had 1 inch roots. Planting Kohlrabi today.
Also planting two Taiwan bokchoy and 1 napa.
Put pepper seeds in the freezer to take out in 2 days then sprout them.
Growing for seed(and greens): Carrots, bokchoy, napa, radish, beets.
Put many cool-weather plants outside today.

24

Planted 1 dozen poblanos in a cell pack. Planting 5 habaneros and 1 sunset pepper. Got mold on the poblanos, have to move the clean seeds. Now we have over 2 dozen poblano seeds sprouted.
Planted napa outside.

25

Second Honeynut appeared today in the peat pot by the window. Another Honeynut in a paper pot is beginning to sprout.
Planted 8 habanero seeds, and many more to plant. 3 more Sunset peppers sprouted.
Garden plan:
12 or 14 tomato plants: 6 cherry varieties, 1 big
4 or more squash plants, 1 or 2 in a pot
3 or 5/6 tomatillos, in two pots
4 sunset peppers
5 poblano peppers -variable
2 yellow cayenne -variable
2 habanero -variable
2 jalapeno -variable
1 sweet potato plant

Total pots: 19 lg, 9 med, 6 sm

Thinking of doing less than 2 plants of each tomato variety. Would be nice to grow a second bigger tomato, like kumato, but we get so many of those in our groceries usually in summer.
New totals: 11 lg
We have 6 large pots.

Made tomatoes in paper pots today:

Black oxheart x2
Bwps x1
Green sausage x8
Tigrella x9
Kumato x4
Green zebra x4
14 yellow pink x2
3 x1
6 x1
Orange x2
4 sm yellow x1
5 sm yellow x1

Apr 14 plants:
3 sm multi x3
4 sm yellow x3
2 yellow grape x1
Indigo rose x1

Sold indigo rose x1, yellow grape (big) x3, orange x1, kumato x1, 6 x1, 3x1, yellow cayenne x1 =20
New total paper pots:

Black oxheart x2
Bwps x1
Green sausage x8
Tigrella x9
Kumato x3
Green zebra x4
14 yellow pink x2
Orange x1
4 sm yellow x1
5 sm yellow x1

Apr 14 plants:
3 sm multi x3
2 yellow grape x1

Took pepper seeds out of the freezer and put them to sprout under wet napkin.

26

Planted many peppers today. Habaneros in 1 and a half egg cartons, other half is poblanos, another half egg carton has 4 sunset and 2 Jalapeno. Planted a whole cellpack of Sunset peppers and still have 17 sprouted seeds to plant. Also still have 1 Jalapeno to plant, and a dozen or so Habaneros.
A single poblano is showing its green stem now.
Made tomatoes in paper pots: 4 sm yellow x1, black oxheart x2, Indigo Rose x1.
Another Honeynut is beginning to sprout. Futsu has 3 leaves now.
Yellow grape is very popular.
Using new method today of watering with a spray bottle, especially for peppers.
Ran out of sterile palm soil.

New Garden Plan:

Tomatoes: All the cherries, plus orange. 2x Tigrella grape, #3, #6, 3x yellow, 1x orange = 8 plants. Plus Kumato/Indigo Rose = 9 plants.
Peppers: 5 types of peppers.


Indoor Gardening chores left:
Plant peppers.
Plant squash.
Split up tomatillos.

Plants to buy: Basil, Parsley, Serrano pepper, Blueberry, Morning Glory, Purple Yam

27

About 5 of the poblanos over the stove have sprouted. 2 are showing their leaves. 1 poblano in the bathroom looks like it's try to stand up.
A Shishito pepper seed has sprouted.


28

We have 56 Poblano peppers planted. 5 or 6 are showing their leaves. Planted the last of them today. Still have 25 more Habanero seeds that are sprouted and need to be planted. Lots more Sunset peppers to plant too.
Transplanted the Tomatillos in the cellpack to paper pots, and same for the Yellow Cayenne.
Planted the Shishito seed as well.
Orange Habenero is showing it's stem, and also one Sunset pepper.
A single Futsu is beginning to sprout.
We have 3 Honeynut in the window, plus at least 3 more in other pots.

Pepper Inventory
Poblano cellpack x4
Sunset cellpack x1
1 cellpack: 8 Poblano, 4 Habanero
Egg carton: 12 Habanero
Egg carton: 12 Sunset Pepper
Egg carton: 6 Habanero, 6 Poblano
Egg carton: 4 Sunset pepper, 2 Jalapeno
Milk carton: 2 Poblano, 1 Shishito
Cellpack: 4 Sunset
Cellpack: 4 Sunset
To plant: 17 Sunset, 1 Jalapeno, 25 Habanero

29

Today there is over 6 Poblanos up with leaves out. 1 Habaneros has its leaves out.
The Futsu almost has its leaves open. The older Futsus have their 3rd leaf out and it's over an inch big already.
There's alost no tomatoes left in cellpacks now, they're al filled with peppers. Getting close to being done planting peppers, with around a dozen Sunset left, 7 Habaneros, 1 or 2 Jalapenos left to plant.
Shop list:
bone meal and blood meal (blossom end rot)
peat moss

We have 14 Honeynut expected for sale. We have 3 for us.
Soaking 29 Futsu seeds today.
We have 12 Futsu seeds expected.
Planted 20 Habanero seeds. Have 7 left to plant.
Planted 4 Jalapeno seeds in the same egg carton with the old ones.
Planted 1 cellpack of Sunset peppers, have more to plant, and moved Tigrellas and Green Zebras to paper pots.


Green Zebra x6
Tigrella x12
Green sausage x7
14 yellow x2
Black oxheart x2
Bwps x1
Kumato x1
4 sm yellow (peat pot) x1

Not in paper:
3 sm multi x1
Big: 3 sm multi x2
5 sm x 2 + x1 sm
Tigrella grape x2

Bathroom
Black oxheart x2
Indigo rose x1
4 sm yellow (peat pot) x1
5 yellow x1

Big: 3 sm multi x1
2 yellow grape x1

Total:
3 sm multi x1
4 sm yellow (peat pot) x2
5 yellow x1
Orange x2
Green Zebra x6
Tigrella x12
Green sausage x7
14 yellow x2
Black oxheart x6
Bwps x1
Kumato x1
Indigo rose x1

Big: 3 sm multi x3
2 yellow grape x1
5 sm x 2 + x1 sm
Tigrella grape x2

We have 42 tomato plants ready to go. Keeping most of the big plants.

30

What's in our compost? (N P K)
Apple (Skin, Ash) 0 | 3.08 | 11.74
Banana Skin (Ash) 0 | 3.25 | 41.76
Cucumber (Skin) (Ash) 0 | 11.28 | 27.2
Eggshell 1.19 |0.38| 0.14
Sweetpotato Skin (Boiled) (Ash) 0 3.29 13.89
Tea Leaves (Grounds) 4.15 0.62 0.4



Orange Skins (Ash)0 2.9 27
Lemon Skins (Ash) 0 6.3 31


Adding in later:


Shrimp Waste 2.87 9.95 0 Fish Scraps (Fresh) 2 - 7.5 1.5 - 6 0
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Went out and got a whole bunch of rectangular pots, one that hangs on a fence. Got another large pot, very large and decorative, big enough to put a squash in.
Also got a Serrano pepper.
Spent $3 on 64 cardboard pots. They won't take as much dirt as the newspaper pots, and are big enough to plant squash in, unlike the smaller, cellpack-sized newspaper pots. These cardboard pots are the same size as a Jiffy pot but about a dollar cheaper.

Repotted tomatoes. Now we have: 5 tigrella, 1 kumato, 1 green zebra

Plans this month: Plant squash on April 11.
Get cellpacks and start more tomatoes - Done April 3
Get bone meal and blood meal
Sweet potato should start growing. Plant more green onions, morning glory.
Poblanos and Jalapeno and Yellow Cayenne and the rest of the peppers should come up.
Lettuce will grow.
Look at getting a hose
Need peat to amend old potting soil - the peat decomposes and the soil loses its draining ability.
Need more parsley plants. Ours is dead.
Need to get a fresh Serrano pepper asap.
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