We vowed not to get behind early this year.  If there is anything worse than getting behind - it is getting behind so early in the year.  Last year we started late, and like in most cases – time is something you cannot make up for.  You can always fertilize more (organically of course!), or maybe keep some lights on them a lil longer – but when it is all said and done, it will all come back to you haunt you.

We did “OK” with peppers last year, late tomatoes… eggplant… okra was perfect.  But anything early in the season – a BIG FAT FAIL.

No early peppers, no early tomatoes… hell our tomatoes seemed to be mediocre for 80% of the growing season last year and if it wasn’t for the mild temps for most of Fall – we would have been near to SHUT OUT on tomatoes. 

But this year we weren’t going to let it happen.  We started the end of Jan.  Built us a brand new grow shelf – and now we are reaping the benefits of the time we invested so early.  Hopefully we will have LOTS of plants this year to share with friends and family (we hoped to do that last year and it was a flop).

All that to say this…

We spent our Valentine’s Day getting our first batch of tomatoes potted up for the first time this early growing season. 

How ya like that internets? CHECK ‘EM OUT!

How are you seedlings doing?  Have you potted up for the first time yet? 

Lots of people are wondering…

When Do We Pot Up Tomatoes For The First Time?

Let’s help ‘em out.  Got any tips on potting up… do share.

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Anybody else already get started?  We have something like 9 billion tomato varieties this year, 50 million different peppers… and then a whole bunch of other stuff we probably  shouldn’t be growing – since we could hardly care for the ones we had last year.  But that is gardening right?  Taking on too much, and griping about it the whole time… right?

What do you have going on in  your garden… err basement… or… greenhouse?

Tags: Container Gardening, Crappy Weather, DIY, Flowers, Gardening, Gardening Tips, Growing Peppers, Growing Tomatoes, Living Green, Organic Gardening, Recession Gardening, Seeds & Seedlings, Sprouts by James
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Long time no see…

Let’s just get past it right now, it has been a while – but big damn deal right?  We all get busy, we all have things come up.  We did.

But the garden still grows.  We have mistreated it, yet it still grows.  Especially the peppers, they are going crazy.  We have been picking them pretty much all year, but with lots going on this past month – we saved them all and harvested all at one time.

Here is a picture of our pepper harvest…

No, your not seeing things, and we aren’t crazy – there are a handful of tomatoes in there too.  Over 30 peppers just yesterday, not too bad.  We are starting to cool off lately, and it has done the garden some good.  Seems like it was 100+ for most of the end of June & all of August.  Hopefully we will get a few more months of nice enough weather to pull off some late “Summer” crops.

We did get out this weekend and plant some fall/winter crops… something we haven’t done before.  We are excited to see how it goes.  How does your garden grow?

Tags: Container Gardening, Fall Gardening, Food, Gardening, Gardening Tips, Growing Peppers, Growing Tomatoes, Organic Gardening, Pictures, Recession Gardening by James
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