Seedlings III

Most of the seeds have germinated. In fact I had to take the cover off of the plants by Wednesday of last week (feb 6). so far so good.

Seedlings II

Pepper plants started germinating. Red Dragon germinated, not so much on the Orange Fogo...oh well, they've got until sunday to germinate in "normal time"

Seedlings

Tomato plant seedlings germinated. Small seedlings abound. All but one square has come up.

Seeds to be Seedlings

So I started the seeds the other day. I started the seeds in little peat pots and saved-from-last-year-plastic-plant-thingys on Sunday the 27th. I planted 8 each of the Red Dragon Peppers and Orange Fogo Peppers. and 7 Brandywine Tomatoes, 5 Marvel Tomatoes and 4 Green Zebra tomatoes.

All the plants are now in my little plastic greenhouse at work where they will most likely remain until it is time to plant all the plants at the beginning of April (or end of March).

Also. The last weekend in March is the Zilker Park Plant Festival. I haven't gone yet, but I think this may be the year.

Seeds

So, according to the Natural Gardener's list o' things to do in January, one of the many things to do is to start the tomato seeds. So, I shall have to start this post haste.

eh, I'll just wait 'til the weekend. Besides, I don't have any potting dirt.

Oh, how true it is

Article from Slate.com about Gardens in Movies.

OH NOES!!!!

The pineapple, it is dead. D-E-D, dead.
I'm not exactly positive about what finally did the plant in, but I think it was a combination of the wind storm at the end of November and me bringing it inside (after the wind storm) because the temps got below freezing a couple of nights. I left the pineapple and the oregano in the house until the week before Christmas. I only put them back outside because of the chance of above freezing temps through the rest of the month. While I was restoring the plant to its normal position on the deck, I decided I should 'straighten' it as the wind storm had bent the plant to the side. That is when the top half of the pineapple just came off in my hand.

It was a sad, sad day. Especially since the plant was supposed to bloom this summer and perhaps even give us a pineapple.

Also, because of the freezing temps, the watermelon died, and the tomato finally died, as did the pepper plants. The lantana plants went dormant for the winter and all of the what-ever-the-red-wild-flowers-are died as well (they should have re-seeded themselves though).