Yesterday afternoon I planted some more seeds to replace some stuff that
didn't make it, and a few others that I just wanted to try. I planted a bunch more spinach, since only one came up before, one more lettuce, four more sweet peppers (2 green, 2 red), and three different types of hot
chilies, two of each kind. The spinach, lettuce, and peppers were all of the same
varieties as I planted before. The chilies are some older seeds I had but never planted. They are Tepin, Jalapeno, and New Mexican (Anaheim) Chilies. They all came from a "grow your own salsa" packet that I picked up probably a few years ago. There are also Tomatillo and Cilantro seeds that I think I might plant as well. They're old so they may not germinate, but we'll see. I figured it didn't hurt to try. I'm mostly out of space in the garden now, but I think if a lot of them come up, I'm going to put whatever I don't have room for in the garden, in the planter. A little manure and nitrogen, and it would be ready to go very easily.
Almost all of my transplanted stuff seems to really be taking root now, and is showing a fair bit of new growth. So far I haven't had to do any weeding. I would summarize it as, water, monitor, and wait (for food) :-). The only pests I've had are microscopic white flies that seem to be chewing on my tomatoe leaves. It doesn't seem to have affected the plant too adversley yet, but I need to find something to keep them off. Other than occassional big chunks of work, such as the initial digging and prepping of the ground, and then sowing over 150 plants at once, it has been less time consuming than I anticipated, which is nice. That definitely increases the probability of me continuing to garden.
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