POTATO, Baby!

March 17th, last year, is the date I put in the first batch of Seed Potato. Which is typical: St. Patrick's Day. This year, the temperature is holding lower that I prefer, particularly night times, but still, I think it is time. The dark rich soil, plus the BLACK fabric bags will help to absorb warmth of the sun, so, the Potato go in TODAY, March 25th. One big plus of Staggering Potato Grow Bags over the next few weeks is a staggered harvest, rather than all at once. I will try to get three harvests for each bag (9 grow bags worth?)

Above: In the intro Picture, you can see the seed potato, sitting on about 4-5 inches (10-12 cm) of soil. Above, you see a layer of soil on top of the seed potato, again, another 4-5 inches (10-12cm).

After a few weeks, the greens of the potato will show thru, and I will cover them with another 4-5 inches (10-12cm), and then, leave that hilled up potato until it is harvest time.

Above: Pepper Plants

Time for some Gardening Notes on my Pepper Plants:

On Feb 15th, I planted 5 varieties of Pepper. Sweet Banana< Lemon Drop, Coral Bell Sweet, Sunbright Yellow Sweet Bell, and Purple Pepper.

• Sweet Banana Pepper 7 of 8 Seeds germinated after 40 days.
• Lemon Drop Pepper 7 of 8 Seeds germinated after 40 days.
• Coral Bell Pepper 6 of 8 Seeds germinated after 40 days.
• Sunbright Yellow Pepper 2 of 8 Seeds germinated after 40 days.
• Purple Pepper 3 of 8 Seeds germinated after 40 days.

I am pretty sure, the Sunbright Pepper Seed germination problem is the age of the seed. All the rest are Packed For 2022 and the Sunbright is from last year: Packed 2021 I planted 6 more seeds from the 2022 packet, to see what I get for Sunbright Yellow Bell. Later tonight, I will plant 4 or 6 more Purple, to make up for the under performing germination.

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Time for some Gardening Notes on my Cucumber Plants:

• Straight 8 Cucumber 3 of 3 Seeds germinated after 12 days.
• Spacemaster 80 Cucumber 3 of 4 Seeds germinated after 12 days.
• Muncher Cucumber 4 of 4 Seeds germinated after 11 days.

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