@Desertdenial, pineapple guava sounds so yummy, does it taste like pineapple? Do you top your fruit salads with it?
@boopaints, my husband used to say I was always playing musical pots in the backyard.
I started out gardening with a few flowers because it took a year for my late husband to get the backyard soil amended and tilled when we first move into our house.
The first year, we had long rows of veggies and I was in heaven. The husband was a bit bitter that the squirrels ate every last bit of corn. We didn't get one ear!
We only had the big garden for a couple years. With the heat, I tried to garden later and later at night, but it was too dark and too far away from the house. Then I just started doing everything in the front yard because we had a street light across the street. Plus I could chat with my next door neighbor out front while working in the daytime. Her husband grew veggies in the backyard while she took care of the flowers, mostly irises, in the front yard.
At one point I went back to gardening more in the back with more pots than in ground. I mostly just put the vining stuff in the ground, like squash and melon. Everything else started to get put in pots. The biggest pots were the white plastic drum found, I think, in an alley. I washed and sun dried it for over a year before the husband cut it in half for the potatoes and sweet potatoes. I felt that all my plants got much more attention in pots. I found all kinds of benches and tables for my backyard. So, I could easily chat and repot all my goodies at a comfortable height.
I'll have to dig through some old photos of stuff I used to grow.
Not a single pepper plant germinated this year from seed. So I replanted them the other day. I'm growing anaheim and serrano. Will be a bummer not having them sooner. I never had as many fails germinating in pots as I do these little grow cells. But I don't have enough pots to start seeds in. I had planned to get more pots this year, but while I was recovering from surgery, the roommate was busy outside expanding the garden and putting up a fence since we had such a mild winter and the ground stayed workable.
I have been putting the seedlings into empty water bottles with the tops cut off. I'm wondering if I have enough bottles and potting mix to start the seeds in them.
