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Sheep manure $3 for 12.5 kg
Triple Mix $4 for 25 L - organic dark humus, sustainable Canadian sphagnum peat moss and compost
Peat moss $8 for 2.2 cubic feet, $10 for 3.8 feet

We want to make our own soil mix using compost(black earth), peat, and maybe potting soil.
Mel's Mix:for raised bed gardening and does not require fertilizers. Containing 1/3 coarse vermiculite, 1/3 peat moss and more than 5 unique composts.
"At the Youtube site "growingyourgreens", the expert gardener is using Mel's Mix in his self-watering containers, but he makes some additions. One of these is Azomite, a supplier of micronutrients. He also adds Mycorrhizae products as well." -squarefoot

Many Habaneros up today, mostly in the bathroom.
Planted 16 Futsu seeds. Have 13 left to plant.

Soaking Serrano Pepper seeds today.
Lots of Habaneros and Sunset peppers are up, and more Poblanos.
Going to plant Jalapeno sprouts. The Habanero sprouts have their leaves out. We have too many sprouted seeds to plant now. Saving room for Serranos.

In 2 or 3 weeks we'll be planting outdoors. Need large pots for:
8 Tomatoes (Tigrella Grape x 2, #3, #6, #2, #4, #5, and Orange)
1 pot for Tomatillo

Peppers go in smaller pots (5 varieties)
Strawberries - smaller pots, or hanging baskets

Squash goes in ground - might plant radishes next to them

Planning to use 10-15 smaller pots for peppers and strawberries.
Planning to get frozen blueberries and plant some. Got wild frozen blueberries today.

Planted all but two of the Habanero sprouts in the April 26 egg carton of Habaneros. Planted 5 Jalapeno sprouts in a 4-cellpack.

Realized our Tomato fertilizer we used last year was for blooming veg. So our problem withnot much fruit might have been the soil was too acidic. This year we will add calcium or lime to fix that.

We know we need bone and blood meal, need both. Also need compost and peat. Won't buy potting soil. Bone blood meal: $6 on sale, compost, peat $8.

Got Blood Meal yesterday for $5.83. It had a coupon for $3 off and it's organic. Now we need to find out if Dolomitic Limestone is a good substitute for Bone Meal.

Planning to get manure(sheep), compost, and peat.

Planted Blue Maxima order, planting Honeynut next, and planted potatoes and sweet potatoes and put them outside to make room.

One tray of Poblanos is dead. It was over the oven and two nights ago the oven was on high and the sprouts dried out overnight. Still have 2 or 3 healthy trays of Poblanos though.

The newer Honeynut sprouts are growing their third leaves now. The recent Futsu sprout has a problem with disfigured cotyledons and didn't open up yesterday. Today it might.

The mass planted tomato sprouts are getting their third leaves now. The ones in the large plastic container have just popped up in the last two days and there's about 20 of each.

We have 3 Futsu sprouts, aside from our two large ones.

Sheep Manure (Dried) 1.51 - 3.09 | 1 - 2.5 | 0.33 - 2.25

Serrano peppers have sprouted, about 4 so far.
Poblano plants fell. Tag is gone, but pretty sure its Poblano. 8 or 9 of the sprouts were found and look like they're gonna make it. 1 lettuce is dead and crispy - it dried out. Sunset peppers did not like the Borax, one is dead, another is half dead and another might recover.
Put all the sweet potatoes and potato sprouts in garden dirt and put it outside.
Planted all the Sunset peppers, about 40 sprouts, and planted the last two Habaneros. Threw out all the pepper seeds except Serrano, they were getting moldy. After Serranos, we are done sprouting seeds.
Still plan on getting more Morning Glory seeds and planting them properly.
Running out of room indoors, can't wait to put plants outside.

We have about 8 Serrano peppers sprouted. Waiting until we have 12 to plant them all at once.
Squash had aphids on it, and the pepper, so we rinsed off the bugs and sprayed with garlic water.

Poblano peppers are beginning to grow their 3rd leaf. 19 Serranos have sprouted. Hardening off some tomatoes today, its 10 C going up to 15. Yesterday was 22C.
Planted 12+ Serranos in a cellpack. Some sprouts were stuck together so planted 2 to some cells. 9 Serrano sprouts left to plant. Planted 4 Blueberries in a pot. Also got some coffee grounds for them.
A Green Zebra tomato that had no leaves and only a stem for months is now growing a leaf.

Tomatoes: Yellow Grape #2 are ready to split up into pots.
Total:
3 sm multi x1
4 sm yellow (peat pot) x2
5 yellow x1
Orange x2
Green Zebra x7
Tigrella x17
Green sausage x7
14 yellow x2
Black oxheart x6
Bwps x1
Kumato x2
Indigo rose x1

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

Egg carton of tomatoes is ready: Orange, Indigo Rose, Black Oxheart.
Preparing for sale: Split up more Yellow Grape, Orange, and Indigo; Find more 3 red sm mlti, and 6 multi, and more Kumato.
Sold: #14, #3 (big), Tigrella, Tomatillo x2
added 2 yellow grape x2
Total:
2 Yellow Grape x2
3 sm multi x1
4 sm yellow (peat pot) x2
5 yellow x1
Orange x2
Green Zebra x7
Tigrella x16
Green sausage x7
14 yellow x1
Black oxheart x6
Bwps x1
Kumato x2
Indigo rose x1

Big: 3 sm multi x2
2 yellow grape x1
5 sm x 2 + x1 sm
Tigrella grape x2
Dropped an egg carton of plants. Now making "mixed" heirlooms. Planning to make trays. Top shelf: Egg carton, half Tigrella, half black oxheart going to plant egg carton of mixed heirloom:indigo rose, 6 sm multi, bwps and transfer from cellpack 6 sm multi, and plant Serrano in cellpack

Sold 24 tomato plants. 2 of 12 varieties. Put many tomatoes into egg cartons. Running low on #3 sm red multi, we have 6 or 8 good plants, and 4 possible more.
Planted Serrano in a cellpack. Now we have 3 dozen Serranos planted.
Next to split up are yellow grape and #6 multi

3 Blue Maxima have sprouted. Serranos have sprouted in one cellpack, with leaves open. 3 more Futsu and 1 Honeynut sprouted today.

Sold 25 tomatoes and 2 tomatillos.
Need more kumato, and yellow cherry.Separating #4. Need to separate BWPS.
Kumato is in with #5 and #4.

Separated #12 BWPS, and #14 yesterday, and #6. Got to get more multicolour cherry seeds, and thinking of starting more tomatillos. Serranos are up in one cellpack still, and planting last 2 Serrano sprouts today.
Need to grow Romas next year, maybe red cherry, too.
Might need to split up green zebra.
Total:
Yellow grape: lots, not split up
3 sm multi: 5 plants
4 sm yellow: lots of pots, no more
5 yellow:?
6 multi: egg carton full, no more
Orange: half dozen, plus lots
Green Zebra: lots -need to be separated
Tigrella: lots
Green sausage: half egg carton, lots to split up
14 yellow:1 egg carton full plus more
Black oxheart: in pots andegg carton, lots
Bwps: lots in pots -small, lots to split up
Kumato: not a lot. Find the mass planting, or plant more
Indigo rose: in two egg cartons, lots.

Thinking of rooting cuttings from #3. To split: Green Zebra, Kumato, then Green Sausage.
Make tomatillo cuttings tomorrow.

Aside from our 2 Futsu and 3 Honeynut, we have 8 Futsu and 5 Honeynut sprouted.
Peppers are getting close to being ready to go.
Took cuttings today from our big plants, #3 multi x2, and Tigrella Grape, and Tomatillos. If they wilt, will put plastic bag over them.
More squash are coming up everywhere. Planted green onions, carrot tops, lettuce.
Planning to plant the last few Serrano sprouts. They are coming up in all the cellpacks.
Only have 4 tomatillos left, aside from our plants.
Sold out of #3 officially now.

Split up Green Sausage, now we have 4 plants left. 2 are medium size and 2 are small.
Next to split up are Kumato, BWPS.
Out of Indigo Rose. Plan to get more seed for next year.

Need to split up Tigrella.
Need to split Kumato.
Need to split BWPS.

May need to split up more Green Zebra.
Orange is split up but doesn't look so good. May split up more if we have more.

Split up Black Oxheart already, now have about 6 plants. Lots more sprouts.
Yellow cherries - already split up.
Green sausage- done too.
Multi cherry - done.
Yellow pink- Done.

Two blue maxima sprouted, and 1 honeynut.

Going to wait a few more days to split the Kumato, BWPS and Tigrella. Put them under strong lights where the peppers were.
We have a few Tigrella and small Kumato plants ready for now. Very small BWPS are ready now.
Split up the Orange tomatoes, made about 10 of them. No more left.
Still have to plant the last Serrano sprout.
All the peppers are growing nicely. All have 3rd or 4th leaves now except Serrano.
Honey 5-4 is up.
10 Futsu sprouts total. Another one just came up today.

Got tomatoes today: Roma, orange grape.
Got peppers: Habanero(orange, red, yellow), Shishito, large orange, red cayenne, orange cayenne

Making small pots.
Separate tomatoes
Move peppers into paper pots.

Put peppers to sprout.
Mass plant roma and orange grape tomatoes.
Plant more squash into paper pots. Soak seeds overnight today: Futsu and Honeynut.

Split up all the Green Zebra today. None left. Made nearly 20 more plants.
Transplanted a cellpack of Sunset pepper that only had 5 plants in it to paper pots.
Planted the leftover Honeynut seed that had been soaking in water and had dried out once. We will see what happens.

We have a sprout coming up in the Kiwiberry.
One Futsu is beginning to sprout.

Today planted:
BWPS, Multi cherry #3 and #6. Last of the seeds.
Also planted Roma from tomatoes we had this morning.
Planted Honeynut squash seed, about a dozen.
Planted 1 Goji shoot that was growing in the lawn.

Next to plant are Orange cherry tomato, and Kumato.
Have 1 Black Oxheart left, no Kumatos. Need to split the small sprouts soon. Planning to do it in two days.

Red Pear - Terra Edibles in Foxboro
Matt's Wild Cherry Tomato - Terra Edibles in Foxboro
Aurega Tomato - Orange with red inside. Medium size. 6 seeds only from Two Wild left wings farm.

Planted Orange cherry tomato seed yesterday. Now have to plant 3 more tomatoes.

Transplant pepper plants in individual pots. -Done 1 cellpack: 5x poblano, 2x Habanero
Spray pepper plants with garlic spray. -Done

Planted all the tomato seeds. Planted half the Futsu seeds. A honeynut sprout is starting to come up, it says 5-4 on it.
Planted 4 tomatillos yesterday. Planning to plant at least 2 more.
Got more Orange cherry to plant, too. -Done

To do:
Put pepper seeds to sprout. - Done Orange and Red Lunchbox, Red Cayenne
Planted Tomatillos 5 or 6 pots. -Done
Plant Futsu
Plant Orange Tomato seed - Done


Downstairs:Plant lettuce, escarole, green onion -Done

Thinking of soaking more Honeynut seeds

A second Kiwiberry sprout is coming up.
1 Orange Lunchbox seed appears to have sprouted after 1 night.
Next to plant: Kumato
Tomorrow will split up Kumato plants.
Soaked more Honeynut seeds today.

Most of the Orange Lunchbox pepper has sprouted.
Transplanted all the Kumato today.
Planted 4 rooted cuttings from the 3 tomato plants.
Planted 11 of the Orange Lunchbox seeds.
We have sprouting: Orange, Red, Yellow Lunchbox, Orange Cayenne, Red Cayenne.
Roma tomato has it's first sprout.

Need to separate BWPS and Black Oxheart next.
Going to plant more Kumato seeds.
Peppers to sprout: Red, White Habanero, Shishito

Splitting up Black Oxheart today.

We have morning glory seeds now.
Split up all the BWPS. Started splitting Tigrella, and Yellow Grape. Split up Serranos from cellpack to egg carton.
Planning to plant 6 Serrano plants, 3 to a pot.
Took more cuttings from tomatoes and tomatillo. Planted a whole sweet potato which was going bad.
Green onions are getting nice and big on the front stairs. Harvested 3 yesterday.
Tomato sprouts are coming up in all the cartons.
Using smaller paper pots now for tomatoes and peppers. They work well when tightly packed together to prevent moisture loss.

Thinking of doing pruning experiment with tomatoes, for those that we have two of such as 3 multi and grape tigrella, prune one and don't prune the other one. Mark the plant with a bright tag. Make sure not to prune determinate varieties. Must prune bottom leaves that might touch the ground. Won't prune suckers off of the unpruned plants. Sanitize tools before pruning.

Planted Callas yesterday in the ground.
Next to plant are: Strawberries, morning glory, squash

Crush up egg shells and plant: Peppers, Tomatoes, tomatillo

Finished separating Black Oxheart. Only Tigrella is left now.

Tomato varieties: #1 Grape Tigrella (x2) #2 Yellow Grape #3 multi (x2), #4 Yellow #5 Yellow #6 multi, Indigo rose, Black Oxheart, Orange, Matt's wild cherry, red pear, Aurega. 12 varieties, 14 plants.

Planted all the pepper sprouts, cayenne and lunchbox peppers. Left is orange cayenne, peach habanero. Poblano hasn't sprouted yet.
Got a very large half whiskey barrel. We now have lots of big, wide pots.
Going to need a lot of dirt, thinking of using triple mix, 100 L for $10. Better get it now while it's still on sale.

We plan on buying 30L Black Earth for $1.50 per bag. Probably will need 6 or 7 bags of them, but carrying them is an issue. Also they may not be in stock much longer, Canadian Tire doesn't have them and Rona appears to be the only place to have them

Need to buy Thai Basil plants, though we are trying to root our own as of 2 days ago.

To plant:
Strawberries
Squash: Futsu(x4), Honeynut (x4)
Peppers: Yellow Cayenne(x2), Serrano(x6), Jalapeno(x6), Habanero(x2), Poblano(x5), Sunset, Lunchbox(x3). Total pots: 12
Tomatillo (x2) Total pots: 1
Tomatoes: #1 Grape Tigrella (x2) #2 Yellow Grape #3 multi (x2), #4 Yellow #5 Yellow #6 multi, Indigo rose, Black Oxheart, Orange, Matt's wild cherry, red pear, Aurega. Total pots: 14

Started digging holes for squash yesterday. They are hard to dig, got down a few inches. Need a shovel for this.
Planted all the Tigrella sprouts two days ago.

Planted all the Orange Cayenne today, and all the Peach Habanero.
Planted the rooted cuttings of tomatoes and Tomatillo. The leaf stems rooted on the tomatoes.
Going to soak more Yellow Cayenne and Jalapeno seeds today.