In the Hoop House

My plantings in the Hoop House have progressed fairly well. My peas, lettuce, spinach, turnips and cabbage transplants are progressing at a fair rate. Being that this is my first full season using it, I'm not sure what is a normal rate of growth in a hoop house. It has also been very cool and wet this spring.

Peas are doing really well

Lettuce

Cabbage

Cabbage Transplants

 Garlic outside the Hoop House is sprouting and doing well 

 I really thought that my spring spinach would do better than this!

I've moved my onion transplants out to the Hoop House, and I plan on starting my tomato seedlings by the end of this week. The soil is still too wet to do any tilling, but this Friday is supposed to nice and warm, and I have the day off! So we shall see...

Pepper Disaster!!

The peppers that I planted on March 16th were doing just great when I took this photo of them under my grow lights along with my onions this evening. Then I went to move the pepper container in the middle of the photo, the container to the right fell off the box and tumbled behind the washer below! Now there is a big, defeated pile of baby peppers and seeding mix behind my washer that I now have to figure out how to clean up! Needless to say, I was not happy, and everybody in the house, including my dog and cats, knew it! In the end however, when the anger and cussing are over, I have no other choice but to plant them again! Luckily it is still early enough in the season to do that without much problem. One thing about peppers that I learned a long time ago is that they do not respond as well to cursing as cilantro and onions do! Tomatoes are kinda hard to tell.

Here is a photo of my surviving peppers, some Super Heavyweight Hybrids from Mountain States Seeds, which is a Bell Pepper type. My plan is after I get a few true leaves on these, I with transplant them into their own individual containers. Hopefully I won't drop the &@#! container before then!

First Flowers of Spring

It has been a cold and wet early spring in Northern Utah, with rain and snow to some degree most days. On March 24th the first daffodils made their appearance in my flower garden.  It’s always a welcome sign of spring!