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Aww.

Erin — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 12:38:33 -0700

That’s too bad. I always thought those little jalepeno plants looked cute. I’ve never tried to grow one. I believe my parents were successful with bell peppers. I think they like SAND, and my parents have clay in their yard, although they’ve brought in a lot of stuff to try to remedy that.

Jalapenos look sick

kirstin — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 11:05:16 -0700

I fear my jalapenos won’t last the week now. My extensive googling tells me that I need to get some sort of phosphorus fertilizer to perk them up and to stop watering them as much as everything else.

good luck

Erin — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 08:05:41 -0700

I grew cilantro in my window box indoors last year. It has a short life, so it’s almost not worth growing. I’m not sure if you can get it to re-seed itself so it will live through the summer. When I grew mine from seed, it took a long time to get big, then almost immediately bloomed, and even if I pinched off the blooms it seemed to just wither after blooming.

Maybe next year I can garden.

Amateur Gardening with Kirstin

kirstin — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 21:30:38 -0700

Last week at the Wednesday Farmers’ Market I bought some plants:
2 different parsley, 1 cilantro, 3 basil, rosemary, mini-gourds, jalapenos, catnip and peppermint. On Thursday a co-worker gave me 3 heirloom tomato plants, 1 cherry tomato and and eggplant. On Thursday I also picked up a free bag of coffee grounds compost from the Starbucks on the Square.

Saturday morning rolled around and I cooked a hearty breakfast before I started gardening. By 11am I was outside starting to plot how I’d plant everything.
Three and a half hours later EVERYTHING had been either planted and (re-planted) in the ground, or planted in pots.