Chili plants: The Pruning Experiment part I
Bringing two chili plants together after a 6 month separation shows a remarkable difference in progress. As if to further punish the weaker of the two plants, I pruned it right down to encourage some new growth:
After much googling, forum posting, book reading and general conjecture from asking around, I found that the results were [...]
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Impulse Buying @Newlands Garden Centre
I went to a couple of garden centres this morning before the Six Nations to check out what deals for containers were on offer and I came away with a bush and a tree.
I’ve been asking around about the droopy lettuce seedlings on the GardenWeb and Irish Allotments forums. The general consensus seems to be [...]
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Seedlings: Tomatoes, Broccoli, Chilis and Lettuce 9 days in
Taking stock of the seeds I planted 9 days ago, already there are varying degrees of progress.
I had a bit of a rookie scare with white mold (which I now know was in fact a fungus) on the lettuce seedlings but thanks to the folks over at the GardenWeb forums my concerns were allayed.
Here is [...]
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Tags:broccoli, chili, germination, indoors, lettuce, seedling, tomato