I bought a half pound of baby Lima bean seeds today. Cost me half a dollar. My purple hull peas are done and I am cleaning out the corn patch. Still got time for baby limas...pretty sure. If not the vines will make nutritious goat fodder.
You should have time. I plant Christmas beans which are just red speckled lima beans and it really doesn't matter when you plant them, they do their best producing in the fall. I have some pods on now but they are mostly just growing all over the place waiting for then.
I have Christmas limas planted too. The baby limas say 75 days. I should have plenty of time. Frost isn't predicted till the middle of November.
You will get an extra month of production out of them so they will be okie dokie unless a critter gets to them.
My pepper plant is getting really big. No peppers yet though. It has some little sprouts on it, but those could be just more leaves. I don't have any idea how long it will be before it produces a pepper or if it will at all. I've never had a pepper plant before.
May be too much nitrogen. But not to worry...just be patient. I usually let my peppers grow on the plant till the blooming slows down. Then I pick the peppers. This gives me good sized peppers and the plant keeps producing. But I only grow green bell peppers.
Well, I have my plants in pots and I used Miracle Grow soil. I'm just hoping those little tiny sprouts (which are barely visible right now) will be turning into peppers!
I am pretty sure they will. Growing peppers in pots is big business in Florida during the cold months. They grow them in greenhouses.
Does anyone know about petunias? I have petunias, and they are growing seeds already. Does this mean that particular flower has grown back as many times as it can and is like burned out? Am I pulling of the dying flowers too soon? Sometimes a flower grows in it's place, sometimes a seed. I don't want to get too many of those seeds. Is there any way to stop that from happening? Should I wait longer before pulling off the dying ones?
Well, never mind my last question. I went to a website and read a little. It says I should pick off the dead ones as soon as they appear. It also says that I should cut them back if they start growing "leggy" which I am assuming means long with only a flower or two. I am so afraid of cutting them though! I'm going to have to look more and find out how to cut them, I guess, because I do have one that is doing that. I've also lost two of them already, but I did get them at Walmart. Probably should have gone to Home Depot or Lowe's instead, but I was there getting something, so I figured I would go to the garden section. I won't buy flowers from there anymore though.
Is your real name Peter Piper by any chance? And did you pick a peck of them? And having picked them, did you then pickle them too? I mean we need to know these things?
They mostly do that all season. It just gets more pronounced as the season nears an end as they have stopped putting so much energy into roots/foilage. Just keep deadheading it. As for your peppers, you should have plenty of time. No idea where you live but we are still months from frost. I have covered them and had them producing all the way well into November.
I just noticed that my pepper plant has a little tiny baby pepper on it! It's just starting to take the form of a pepper. I tried to take a picture of it, but my camera is kind of crappy and it isn't clear enough to really see it yet. When it gets a little bit bigger, I will take a picture and post it here.
Thanks for the advice. I've already lost three petunias this year, but that could be because I got them from Walmart.
Then you should be good to go. Depends on what kind they are really. the larger sweet peppers take awhile but once the hot peppers get going they really get going. My sweet peppers didn't do well this year as happens when deer bite your heads off, but the hot ones have been churning out more than I need by far. I am about to turn my biggest garden under for the most part to let it sit til fall. I will mow it, spray it, and then til it over. Those peppers are just everywhere in nooks and crannies so I will mostly be pickling/begging people to take them them and the lemon cucumbers for the rest of the season, or at least until I can get some fall lettuce/onions in.
Where you got them doesn't matter so much really. In my experience, the ones in the black packs where you get 6 or so are always stunted underperformers; the ones in the pre-made baskets tend to root bound and go into shock when you get them home. I go with the more pricey but better performing Proven Winner quart sized pots when it comes to petunias to plant in my large pots out front. I put water on them every day it doesn't rain, usually in the evening, and they do well, and change the dirt in the big pots every spring and fall. I have no problem with those cell packs for most things, but the petunias specifically never seem to thrive out of them the way other flowers will for whatever reason. I haven't really had that better luck with those wave petunias in the pink pots and they tend to be pricey too. Proven Winners is the only brand of them I will buy now.
The ones I got came in the 6 pack of little plastic containers. I did pull on the root balls a little to loosen them up before I planted them, but I've lost three. They were the hybrid candy striped kind. Maybe those are a little weaker anyways. The other petunias that are not hybrids are doing fine though. My other plants came in the kind of pots that are recyclable. You just pull the bottom part off and plant them, and those are doing great.
Maybe recyclable isn't the right word. I don't know what to call them. They are supposed to dissolve in the soil though.
The pepper that is growing is smaller than a pea right now. It's probably about a quarter of the size of a pea. I hope it does okay and grows into an adult pepper!
I usually plant them with other things. I think they do better with a little competition. Usually I do it with complementary tones in other plants, but this year, for reasons known but to God, I wasn't thinking and now my pots are rather garish. I have lavender tone petunias, lipstick pink vinca, and dark red coleus in the same pots. I was doing it all in a hurry one day with what I had and just wasn't thinking. The plants are doing great, but they are fugly pots as far as the scheme. Having taller plants in with them will shade the crowns from the sun as the petunias take off which helps protect them from heat/drought better IMO.
Mine look cute in their pots because I have this thing that is almost like a privacy screen, and it has 7 holders in it, and the petunias look really pretty. I'll take a picture of it this week sometime (if I remember), but it is on the idea of something like this . . . but mine is fancier and better.
