Gardening and Landscaping

[sumisu]

janice,

Thanks for the reply on the containers. I will investigate further.

Last summer I decided to add about six containers but I ended up ordering 15 containers, the pictures are shown in the following link:

http://www.growersupply.com/15gallonbxl.html

Since I live outside of Boston, where it gets a little cold in the spring, I opted for black containers to warm up the soil earlier. In the spring, I put two wall of waters in two containers with cucumber seeds inside. One container did fabulously well. The other ended up with three pepper plants.

Here is the story on the peppers. I went on my daily walk and saw a neighbor's garden. He had a lot of extra peppers. I ended up with 24 plants and he will have to return to identify the varieties later in the summer. I put three each into three 15 gallon containers. They are doing fine now. Little peppers have emerged on nine plants.

The remaining peppers were put into the ground. They were extremely healthy looking and in a week they had yellow leaves. I returned to my neighbor and told him my problem. He told me I should get my soil tested. Since I don't drive, that was going to be a problem.

While food shopping, I went to the garden center, and found Coast of Maine compost with composted crab, lobster, and aspen bark. See following link.

http://www.coastofmaine.com/soils-quoddy.shtml

Within four days and a lot of rain most of the leaves were green. Then I put the compost around all of my tomato plants.
All of the leaves turned greener.

I figured out the problem. Last autumn I buried maple leaves in every inch of the garden. I forgot to put the limestone into the soil afterwards. I think a lot of nitrogen was leached out by the rotting, buried leaves. This is just a theory.

Anyway, all is well in the garden and I expect a big pepper bonanza.

Thanks for that link for chile plants. It carries my new favorite tomato plant, Sweet Million. I will buy from them next year. Link container specifics on this tomato.

http://tinyurl.com/29zk9x

On another walk, I met a lady working in her garden. I asked her what she had started in her cold frame. She had a lot of tomatoes and gave me a mystery collection of tomatoes sprouting in the bottom four inches of a large coke bottle.

I figured they would not do anything but I transplanted them into a larger container and then into individual containers over the subsequent three weeks. Problem is I was out of gardening room. I carved out a new garden in my neighbor's lawn over the course of a week for a new garden. The blossoms just began to appear yesterday on some of these tomato plants.

This morning I went out to take pictures of all of my efforts. I was going to conquer that Photobucket site that another poster uses. I took 25 pictures with my Olympus camera, which I replaced the batteries last week, and damn, the new batteries died.

I hope to replace the batteries soon and post some pictures.

Again, thanks for the reply. The 40 pound bag size of soil that you filled up your containers are a good lead to buy my next set of pepper containers.

sumisu