The rain stopped after 8 a.m. but it was very windy today. I did get out to harvest 180 g of bush beans ( second harvest) and three cucumbers (1264 g). Both of these are probably the last I will see for a while. There are a few small beans left. I did not get out to fertilize today, but I was able to trim my kokutan hedge. The weeds were growing through it, so it needed it badly. I cut the lettuce from the towers but left the roots and there is a second growth. I think I will be able to harvest a few of the leaves before I pull it out. Statistics: Posted by imafan26 — Fri Apr 26, 2024 4:03 am ..read more

Today was only up to 60° here, and tonight they have switched my area into a freeze warning, instead of the freeze watch last night. Still nothing I have to worry about out there - not until May. And the next few days it will be getting warmer faster, up to maybe 86° Tuesday! As always, crazy weather. Statistics: Posted by pepperhead212 — Fri Apr 26, 2024 3:12 am ..read more

This morning I put bird nets over the strawberry plants and found 1 quart + 1 cup of ripe strawberries. I made about 200 wooden stakes to hold down the 4 bird nets. Temperature warmed up to 74° for 3 days in a row. TV claims 83° to 87°f Fri to Wed. Warm temps should make a lot of ripe berries. Statistics: Posted by Gary350 — Thu Apr 25, 2024 9:05 pm ..read more

It is 71 degrees at 5:15 a.m. and it has been raining most of the night and may continue for a few hours more. It was a nice day on Monday, April 22, and I got a lot done then. I divided and repotted some of my green onions and I replanted the 6 tier tower. From the top of the tower I have Top tier: Salad bowl lettuce ( transplanted seedlings from the other tower) Tier 2: planted Maxibel beans. Two pockets of tendergreen beans Tier 3: Wailua Pepper (UH jalapeno cultivar) seeds collected from my plants. 1 Red lettuce ( also a volunteer from my lettuce, Shimonita negi divisions started on 1/30 ..read more

The full moon is mostly hidden behind clouds. I had thought that I might be able to report that the day before and yesterday would be the first clear-sky mornings with no frost. It was not to be. Officially, yes but not here at home. This morning, yes – no frost but there is a blanket of clouds. The greenhouse, with no heat turned on, is 54⁰f (12⁰C) at 5:30AM. No complaints about a cold Spring – we haven't even had much of our typical "bouncy" weather. Well, that is if one expects the usual significant difference between afternoon highs and morning lows in this semi-arid environment at this ..read more

Gonna be scrambling today — FREEZE WATCH for tomorrow morning, possibly as low as 31°F has been forecast. I’m going to have to heat the Patio Hoophouse with all the tomato seedlings in it somehow. Corn (and peas? cabbage seedlings?) may need to be covered …. Container figs with baby fig buds, etc. etc. Statistics: Posted by applestar — Thu Apr 25, 2024 9:42 am ..read more

sounds delish. Statistics: Posted by imafan26 — Wed Apr 24, 2024 2:45 am ..read more

I don't have a frost. Kale, chard , perpetual spinach, cutting celery, eggplant, peppers, and the majority of my herbs just grow throughout the year. I don't really know how long they live. Some have been over 4 ft tall so they must have been over two years, some may have been about a year and a half. If it rains too much they rot or the water gets in the cut stems they rot. I have grown onions, but I don't have the kind of space you do and the onions don't keep well in my hot and humid climate and they are relatively cheap to buy, so I don't often try to plant them. I am growing carrots now ..read more

I just turned on my oscillating fan in my seedling room, to help strengthen them. The tomatoes are growing fast now, and the tomatillos are, too. And something I probably didn't mention, when discussing the small amount of fertilizer in these things is the silica fertilizer, from the hydroponics, which helps strengthen the stems - something that definitely worked when I first used it with the tomatillos, which I used to have trouble with, and had to stalk them, from early on. With the silica, I haven't had the problem since. Only about 1/2 tsp of the solution is needed per gallon of water, eve ..read more

Taller S7xA-F4 seedlings (not microdwarf) are starting to show their variegation on 2nd set of true leaves. Statistics: Posted by applestar — Tue Apr 23, 2024 1:03 am ..read more