I took a hoe, and went out and cut furrows in the ground I already had broken up this evening. It's not a huge patch, hardly bigger than a grave, about 10' x 4'. so I only cut 3 10 foot furrows. checked the 10 day forecast, no frost predicted, so tomorrow I'll plant some stuff in it and break up another 10 x 4 patch for the tobacco. I'm figuring on 60 tobacco plants, 3 furrows, so 20 plants a furrow, one every 6 inches or so. That ought to work. they're tiny tobacco plants - not more than 2 1/2 or 3 feet tall at the most.
Sadly, the cat jumped into the middle of my start tray, and scattered the plant starts all over the kitchen floor. So, I don't know which pepper plants are cayenne, and which are bell peppers, so I'll just have to mix and match them.
i didn't start any of the jalapenos, because they are the weakest jalapenos I've ever tried to eat. I call them "sweet jjalapenos", because I couldn't detect any capiscum in them at all. Still, just so I know what something is, I'll probably start a few of them, too.
I've got a crap-ton of catnip, which will probably all go into about 8 pots, 4 of which will eventually get popped into the perimeter of the yard for the cats. The rest are for me, and my bad nerves.
If the cats don't destroy them, that is.
There is a bunch of peppermint, which also will likely go into 8 pots, 4 of which will migrate into the yard, eventually.
Also a bunch of basil, but Grace says 4 pots ought to be enough, so I dunno what I'll do wit the rest. Plant it down at the creek, I reckon, to get some started wild.
A bunch of thyme, too, which neither of us can reckon how much we can use, so, i dunno. I'm guessing 4 pots for the kitchen, and the rest into the wild.
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Sadly, the cat jumped into the middle of my start tray, and scattered the plant starts all over the kitchen floor. So, I don't know which pepper plants are cayenne, and which are bell peppers, so I'll just have to mix and match them.
i didn't start any of the jalapenos, because they are the weakest jalapenos I've ever tried to eat. I call them "sweet jjalapenos", because I couldn't detect any capiscum in them at all. Still, just so I know what something is, I'll probably start a few of them, too.
I've got a crap-ton of catnip, which will probably all go into about 8 pots, 4 of which will eventually get popped into the perimeter of the yard for the cats. The rest are for me, and my bad nerves.
If the cats don't destroy them, that is.
There is a bunch of peppermint, which also will likely go into 8 pots, 4 of which will migrate into the yard, eventually.
Also a bunch of basil, but Grace says 4 pots ought to be enough, so I dunno what I'll do wit the rest. Plant it down at the creek, I reckon, to get some started wild.
A bunch of thyme, too, which neither of us can reckon how much we can use, so, i dunno. I'm guessing 4 pots for the kitchen, and the rest into the wild.
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