Before And After

Pepper bed, before and after pulling 10,000 morning glory seedlings out. Photos in the wrong order, but it doesn't seem like the hassle of trying to figure out why or how to fix it. ;)

Onion

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Cucumbers

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Weeds

Morning glory seedlings attempting to take over the pepper bed. Unfortunately, there are seeds planted to the right where there are no plants, which makes it a bit more difficult to weed.

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This is my pepper bed, which was completely weed-free less than 48 hours ago. I know that because I pulled every single weed by hand in the >100F weather we've been having. It's been drought-y for a few weeks now, so I haven't had as many weed issues as usual since I only water actual plants (mostly via soaker hose) and not entire beds (like with a sprinkler). Well, last night it finally rained, and this is what the weed situation looks like less than 12 hours later in my only un-mulched bed. Thousands of them, mostly baby morning glories. Guess I know what I'm doing during daylight tomorrow.

At least it rained, though, and I was finally able to give my soaker hoses a bit of a break.

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Odd Ones On The End

Habanero at the top, Thai Hot Pepper at the bottom

Most peppers look exactly the same until they actually have peppers on them, but these two are the odd ones out - different leaves than all the rest. Of course, if you're not familiar with what the rest look like, it'd probably help if it had occurred to me to take a closeup of those too.

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Transplanting

Tools of the trade.

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There Will Be Peppers

28 California Wonder, 4 Jalepeno, 4 Hot Banana, 2 Red Hot Cherry, 1 Cayenne, 1 Sweet Banana, 1 Habanero, and 1 Thai Hot.

I have a confession to make: I somehow managed to lose an entire flat of seedlings. I know I planted 72 hot peppers, of various types. Of course I wouldn't have transplanted them all into my garden - I would have given away or sold the extras. But somehow it came up missing (not dead, missing) and by the time I realized it, it was too late to start over from seed. So today, I went to Lowe's and spent more on each of those plants at the far end of the bed than I would have for each packet of seeds.

Next year? More organization, less wasted money.

Aha! A good use for my blog! Now I'll remember which is which after the tags disappear.

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Pathetically Small Tomato

3x as big as it was when I transplanted it a few days ago.
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Yum

Oh yes I did eat them straight off the vine, after rinsing them off in the garden hose. I wouldn't offer them to a guest without a real cleansing, but I don't mind eating them that way myself.

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Bell Peppers

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Tomatoes

Four Early Girls, five Baby Romas, five Romas, and four Crimson Cushions. The bed is actually double planted - there's a row of berry canes down the middle, just planted this spring, so they won't do much for another year or two. May as well keep it planted with other stuff in the meantime. And that's a rogue iris down on the far right.

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