Wednesday, June 6, 2018

update 06-06-18

welcome back everyone, good to have you.
It has been 21 days sense the last pictures
where taken , so here is the photo update. 
I will explain the progress and what i have 
learned this season.


as you might have noticed the greenhouse has went
through a make over. I moved lots of things around
some things just got to big to be on the top shelf. 
some things where in shadows
yet other things where not worth my limited 
greenhouse space.
i had to remove the center
shelves to make room fom groth/light
drastic mesures where needed
i had to plant some peppers outside
of the protection of the green house

right on the ground in the dirt.

up front you can see the 
2 colprits face to face.
i had to move them because they 
just would not stop hitting the top.
(golden cyanne / broccoli )

Here you can see my best sip Tomato
(Back center)
My standard control bucket to the right 
and far right front we will get into later on


ok here on the left you can see my
 sealed bottem buckets.
So i have had mixed results with this 
methiod as you can see.
the buckets have changed places and the
close one has had 2 plants pulled
and a new plant put in its place.
The other plants where still alive but not 
slow growing and not worth the space.
before i forget again
the 2 front center SIP buckets
are green bell pepper / jalapenio


left to right tabasco , thai , cherry bomb 
Cherry Bomb is a new pepper i bought 
Never heard of it but i understand it 
can pack a pretty good punch


cherry bomb / gypsy / cyanne from seed


Jalapeno from seed / mystery pepper from seed

Purple bell pepper / couple of mystery peppers


More mystory peppers 


My best SIP results 
I'd say this tomato it about 34-36 inchs
 from soil level and super heathy.


So this was a experement of mine.
I have very little expectations but , to 
my surprise this worked really well.
It was a random throw together.
a new oil collection pan from dollar tree
and a old wicket waste basket.
the idea was SIP + root aeration/air pruning
i will have to try this again with a less primitive system
   

Now to suspect #1

Name : miss Broccoli Waltham 29
Crime : trespass 
Location : very top of greenhouse
Punishment: relocation


Now to suspect #2

Name : Countess Von golden Cyanne
Crime : trespass / plantligomy  
Location : very top of greenhouse
Punishment: relocation

Was cough with many peppers from unknown father planr


AS you can see there has been lots of 
progress these last three weeks


The outcast plants from the greenhouse.
these lovly ladys have been moved into
a shallow water resavor as a exparement
if this works out corectly it will validate
the information i got from the wicker
basket tomato. wish me luck :)


My SIP pepper buckets seem to be
doing ok so far. we will see what happens.
I have already noticed that the buckets 
with center pipes are doing far better 
then the rest. These are the buckets with 
2x 2 inch net cups 
over 1 3 inch

Before you ask every other treatment is the same. 
same light , same water , same bucket size , same soil.
(as if anyone has ever asked anything , lol)


So my pumpkin buckets where intended to grow pumpkins in ,
but i need space from my pepper seedlings
come to find out my tomato loves its home.
my pepper is kind of being a jerk
in front you can see my slower of my 2 potato bags


My better potato bag its fully unrolled in early june.
i got months of growth 
the other bag is about half way


on to my berries
What can i say i failed
i didn't get a signal berry
loads of dead heads , deep green 
foliage . no fuit

Thats a retty flower in the making
guess where it comes from ?
The onion that you forgit about in the
pantery . just cut out the center bulb.
and in now time you have this wonderful
flower.

ohhh and it make you a nice crop of onion seeds
for next year.



i had to remove the center
shelves to make room fom groth/light
drastic mesures where needed
i had to plant some peppers outside
of the protection of the green house
right on the ground in the dirt.

Update 05-16 -18

Sorry it has been a while sence my last posting ,
 so here are some better late then never pics
 and update on my gardening adventures.
Enjoy....



on the left in black trunks :P KHI thai pepper
And her friend in matching bottems it a gypsy pepper
I bought these plant for 3 USD each

The plants in the soda cups are watermelons i bought.
turned out to be 4 plants in a pot so i transplanted
not bad for 2 USD




here we have my first atempt at sub irigatred planters
(4 blue buckets in the middle)
and also a test on a sealed resavor bucket system.
(the 2 white buckets to the left)
 here we have My first attempt at broccoli 
(far left )
Fallowed by a couple plants i bought 
First is a Tabasco pepper 
next is a golden Cyanne pepper




 here we have a Jalapino plant i started from seed
(left to right)
A purple bell i bought 
and a couple of mystery peppers i started from seed
Long story short adhisive dot lables fade
 fast in a green house , and fall off in humidity.
 notice 1 dot out of 5 left on the buckets.
The buckets by the way , i found at my local dollar tree
type 5 plastic and have worked like a dream.
I highly recomend them

On the left is a pepper i ended up pulling due to no growth :[
The pepper on the right is the Jalapeno i grew from seed that is doing great.


here is the rest of my garden layout
the 3 beds on the right , onions , carrots , and corn 
the 2 center beds are half squash / wax pepper
and little pukie` mon pumpkins
far back center is broccoli

 here we have some more of my SIP buckets
I have played around with these square buckets a 
bit and found that 2x 2 inch net cups works better 
then a single 3 inch.
left  is Jalapeno right Serrano top best of the mystery 

 the remaining 2 buckets are cyannee pepper
And this crazy contraption is my
 over wintered strawberries