#growing stuff

First full grown strawberry!

I shared it with youngest and it was *so good*!!! I am exceedingly excited for someone who, only a few months ago, had little desire to grow a sunflower with my own kid. That's growing too, although it's leaves still aren't the best.

I'm pretty sure that middle thing is the head of the flower. Aaaaaaah!

Here is what I've got going in the greenhouse until mid-May:

A bunch of shade wildflowers, moon flowers, pansies, snapdragons, sweet peppers, hot peppers, toms, cherry toms, full sun wild flowers, chocolate mint, blueberries, strawberries, and jalapenos.

I am holding on by a thread in today's uncertainty, but these small things are keeping me sane.

Spent a good chunk of Sunday putting in a timed watering system for our dozen or so surviving plants. This way they will live even if I forget to water or go out of town or something. The habanero in the middle pic is doing particularly great and I really want to keep that going.

The hardest part was getting to the plants on the other side of the sidewalk. I got it done through a pvc pipe tunnel. After going through that the water pressure wasn't enough for the little sprayer endings, but luckily just loosening them a bit let some water come out about the same anyway.

And I did it all with just one trip to Home Depot and only this one piece that I wound up not using (aside from portions of things that came in a set).

As anyone who knows me will tell you, I have a terrible track record with plants. I can keep an orchid alive, but anything else drops dead on me.

To that end, please cross your fingers, because I'm growing chillies!

The seeds were saved from chillies used in the kitchen, the fertiliser is from used tea leaves and coffee grounds, the pot is a non-recyclable plastic tub, and the whole lot is insulated with a plastic bag that has been reused about 5 times already before being handed over to me.

There are also a few more sets of seeds germinating around the place, but these chillies are the most hopeful so far.

Wish them luck!