The haul from a productive little journey to Blomsterlandet ("Flower Country") after work this evening. Plus some miscellaneous junk visible out in the balcony room, which is past due some spring garden cleanup!
My primary mission today was to pick up some tomato plants. It hopefully shouldn't be too early, since they are going in the glassed-in balcony area. No seeds started this year, and we do have the car now so it's much easier to haul all kinds of stuff around.
I grabbed two tomato plants, and this mystery vaguely banana pepper-looking variety to go into the three existing buckets.
I know the 'Totem' is supposed to be good in containers and heavy bearing for a smallish plant. Then I decided to stay sane for our current growing situation, and opted for this other bush tomato variety that I'd never heard of before.
But! Turns out that 'Vilma' has some other plans in mind.
That's it, that's how big the plants get. I like the cute little micro dwarves, and these are supposed to have a good flavor. But, somehow I think that the bucket will need to find another new occupant.
For now, at least, I think 'Vilma' will probably be better off moving up into one of these.
Besides the edibles, I also couldn't resist picking up these when I saw them.
A few unnamed African violets, and the lone Cape Primrose that I saw in the store. (Though, come to find out, these are apparently all classified as Streptocarpus now.) Not as wild about the pinks, but I'll take what I can get. All the Saintpaulias and Streptocarpus that I had (including the few luggage-smuggled from the UK) ended up dying for one reason or another, and I'm glad to get some more cheerful little blooming buddies in here.
Their new home in the living room for now. With that sad aloe and dracaena which needs some serious repotting. It's just staying too chilly in the balcony plant room still. (Which is what got most of the other ones.) Hopefully I will manage to keep these happier than the last ones!
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I have not had good germination this year for peppers only two of the nine I first started came up, then only two of the six in the second sowing came up. Which is honestly probably for the best as I don't have space for ten pepper plants. My tomatoes did way better than I expected. Nearly all of them germinate with ten out of twelve coming up. Which means I likely be looking to give some of them away to friends. I also need to pot up my black magic jalapeno and most of the tomatoes this week.
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baby pepper baby pepper baby pepper!!!!! 🫑
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Yes, it's May 25 and yes, there's a frost warning tonight.
My pepps are inside!
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My pepper plants I got from the school are doing well and was confirmed the pepper on the right is a jigsaw pepper variety. Meaning spicy peppers with purple leaves ahoy~! 🌶️
They just been repotted to be in their own pots and I’m a happy camper~
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Ghost pepper flowers. Can't wait to enjoy some home grown spiciness 💚💚💚
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Sweet Pepper - belle boy
Pepper like plenty of warmth, they are in the heated greenhouse
We grow lots of veg
Chili
Cucumber
Lettuce
Tomatoes
Beans
Sweetcorn
Mizuna
Courgette
Pumpkin
Cabbage
Cauliflower
Sprouts
Onions
Leeks
Chicory
And more ……
We’re sowing all the time, plenty more on our propagation bench that will be ready soon too.
Most seedlings and young plants are in the heated greenhouse, they need protection until the risk of frost is over.
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I’m obsessed with your entire blog premise and so curious about your backstory. were you a geneticist denied funding so you went rogue and now you’re collecting all genome sequences to enact revenge? are you perhaps a scientist from the Jurassic park universe making sure none of your secret dinosaur dna sequences escape containment? are you italian
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Closest match: Capsicum rhomboideum cultivar Andean isolate CrT2T chromosome 3
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n448_w1150 by Biodiversity Heritage Library
Via Flickr:
Comprehensive catalogue of Queensland plants Brisbane,A. J. Cumming, government printer[pref. 1909] biodiversitylibrary.org/page/39928772
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