Patiently Waiting, Zone 10b
Patiently Waiting, Zone 10b
Hello Earth Shepard's! Waiting patiently for some harvests to come in. So far I've been plucking away at my lemon trees to make lemonade (tried wine, but for health sake I'm sticking to lemonade) until everyone else catch up.
Invitees are: Blackberry (x2), Peach (x2), Raspberry(x2), Boysenberry(x3), Blueberry(x1), Strawberry (pulled a few and they're good, x8), Summer Crisp lettuce (still producing and tasty,x6), Tomatoes (Roma and Black Krim,x10), Apple (x1) Bell Peppers(x12) and Zucchini(x2).
As you can see, bell peppers and tomatoes make up a large part of my garden. I'm shifting more to a perrenial grow instead of annuals (peppers here are perrenials) hence the large amount of peppers. In hindsight, I should had bought more Blueberry bushes and at least another tray of strawberry starters.
Besides the strawberries and the trees, everything else has been grown from seed. Pictures are just a minor snippet of what's growing in my backyard.
Click here if you're interested in following more of my garden updates, or here. Anywho, Happy Sunday everyone!
You're waiting for harvests to come in, I'm still waiting to be able to put my sprouts outside.
21c and sunny yesterday, 3c overcast with mixed rain/flurries today.
I’m sure my non hardened starts I transplanted yesterday will take!!!
Oh cheese, I feel ya. I was like that late fall and throughout winter due to my grow tent not just getting how enough to transplant/Jumpstart a few varieties.
By the time I bought a small grow tent heater, the weather began to get warmer. What do you plan on sprouting?
What’s your setup? Usually you don’t need a heater with a grow tent.
You can turn down the light intensity to lower the DLI, which should let the tent remain warmer overnight as it would 24/7 lighting or even 18 or whatever you calculate instead.
With my lights on, my fans are almost constantly running or it’s above 26-30c. And that’s not even at full intensity. When they turn off they go down to 16c at night as that’s the house temp. So if you can avoid a dark time, you could solve that issue?
Not all plants can get away without a nightly respiration period though iirc. Not a basic technique by any means.
Tomatoes! I hardly use them quick enough when I buy them, so when they're still on the vine I can leave them a little longer before picking. It also pushes me to use them more. I'd grow more but I'm in an apartment in the city, so everything is in pots.
I literally just put some starts in the ground today. Rolling the dice that we won't get a late frost since we're not out of our window yet.