Whatcha Growing?

[SwampDonkey]

Peppers after about 2 weeks of transplanting. They won't go in the garden for about 3 weeks.

[SwampDonkey]

The tomatoes are just starting to germinate.

[aigheadish]

Swamp those looks great! My Cayenne don't appear to be growing a whole lot outside yet, I'm hoping they are growing down and with some warmer weather they start popping up more. I didn't transplant a bunch of them from their seedling trays and that probably didn't help, but they should be ok. 

cfarm- what do you mean when you say crop cover? I don't know what that is...

[doc henderson]

We have made the mistake when we were young and excited and planted stuff as early as the book said we could.  nothing happened for weeks, then suddenly they took off.  I think it depends on the weather.  peppers like warmer weather.  just wait.  Or recent tomatoes were bought past the date stated and they started growing the next day.  

[thecfarm]

Sorry really should of called it row cover.
I fixed my post.
Do a goggle on row cover. It's very light white fabric. You can pour water on it and it will go through it as fast as you can pour water.
If you don't hold it down it will blow away.
Plants growing under it, will just about pick up the fabric as the plants grows.
Works to keep plants, crops warm too. I have seen fields of sweet corn covered in crop cover.

[thecfarm]

Peppers like to be hot.
I've been putting mine on black plastic for 20 years.
I wet the ground a little, don't need to make it muddy. I lay out the black plastic and put  on the sides. I put a fist size  about every foot.
I make an X in the plactic and plant the pepper plant. I put a  between each plant so the wind will not pick the plastic up and cover the plant. I water each plant as I plant them.
First year I did this I had some peppers!!!!
Made a believer out of me.
I do it with tomatoes just as a weed control. I did not notice anymore yield from tomatoes.

[jb616]

I guess I will plant my garden this weekend. Was going to do it this morning but DanG, it was 33 degrees yet.

[SwampDonkey]

I've always had lots of peppers here when I started my own and not buy little small ones the green houses sell. I usually do a big batch of relish here to use up all the bells. That will use up 25 big fat thick walled bells around 0.5 lb each. I have used ground cloth just to control weeds around peppers and tomatoes. I can use it over and over for years, it's the heavy durable kind. I usually have pales and pales of tomatoes, I make different sauces: ketchup, BBQ, and pasta sauce and I can several 1 litre (>1 quart) jars of whole ones to make beef soup in the winter.  I also can pint jars of mixed hot/sweet slender peppers for meat sandwich toppings. I freeze bags of peppers for winter pizza, fried meat, and chop suey. I like to fry a bunch up with onions and cabbage to and serve with chicken strips and rice and egg rolls. I'm making some this weekend.