From One Container to Another

Plants need space for roots to thrive

I’m not at our getaway place presently. I hope the plants there are doing well. Both the ones in the ground and the ones still under the new grow lights (on a timer).

This post is going to focus on the plants I have here at our other place. During the past week, the main effort has been to give each plant its own space and so the images below reflect that. Here are the images along with a bit of commentary on each one.

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So, I had some other containers with 12 compartments each and I transferred the peppers by type in a dedicated manner. The three containers you can see here of this type are the “Sweet Chocolate”, “Cayenne”, and “Ghost” pepper containers. Sweet Chocolate peppers are new for me this year, but on the seed package it stated that these are quick growing and well suited for places with a shorter growing season relatively speaking, and that is why I decided to give them a try. Prior to this transfer, several of the chambers the sweet chocolate peppers were previously growing in had two little sprouts and when I could do it without too much harm, I separated them and gave them each their own chamber is indicated in the image.

For the “Basil” and the “Sweet Pepper”, I chose to put them in a 1-gallon felt container where they will share space with each other - hopefully the roots will not get too intermingled before it is time to transplant them either into the ground or into another larger container (assuming they keep growing as I hope they will).

This is just the view from the other side of the stainless steel table I’m using. The Okra plants were starting to get a little annoyed with each other and when I moved them into the felt container they had roots aplenty. Most of the little chambers they had been in previously, had two Okra sprouts in them, so I had to remove one because to try to separate them would likely have been harmful for both. However, if you look close there are two Okra’s nearby each other that I didn’t have the heart to pick one or the other, so I just put them in the new container together still. I did this a few days ago and I set the Okra off to the side away from the direct light and they seem to now have gotten their bearings, so I’m hopeful for these Okra cause I’ve been told they have pretty flowers that the bees are fond of….time will tell.

This is the “non-garden” image of the week. It includes a fine porter my brewer friend shared with me (as well as the bottle it was within), some almonds (I like almonds and pistachios), and some mashed potatoes (Bob Evans is so easy and tasty). It is on our screened in porch - a friend and I about….hells-bells more than 3 years ago…. removed all the screens in this porch along with some rotten wood and made replacements. It was a big project, but it was fun. It took us several days and I came up with a novel way of securing the new wood post using “Epoxy Putty” that is a pretty incredible material. The tiling on the floor of our screened in porch was placed by yours truly with significant assistance from my significant other more than 20 years ago I think. We have had a lot of fun and fellowship in this porch area over the years.

(Edit - in support of my posted response below pinned)

Now, I know this is getting sort of crazy, but I don’t care. Check out this image below and I will tell you first-hand it is NOT raining at my place - so don’t believe everything you read on the internet.

Now, literally just now it is even a bigger lie - here is the image:

I’m sorry to inform you, but it is NOT raining hard where I reside and I reside within the yellow in that image - so like I said - don’t believe everything you sense on your phone or smart device so dumb….trust your own senses, and I’m telling you this is a lie and the time is: 4323 1513 military time or thereabout….truly.

Now if it turns out every time I do an update like this I would appreciate if somebody lets me know because I don’t want to send needless emails for every update, but I’m telling you it is not raining that hard where I reside so this radar is a lie. Take it or leave it, but why would I lie?

Check this out…

that is a lot i’m glad it didn’t get….I didn’t get a one of em…I don’t trust em.

They are all liars….anyhow, 311 likes and 111 comments - captured in the moment of today, 4623 1127

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That is it for this update. Next week we should be in our getaway place and I’ll share some images from there. I’m thinking I will be bringing some of the cucumber there with me to join the tomatoes already there under the grow lights. I’ll have to be careful how I water the plants that remain behind and I think I’ll ask somebody to come tend to them periodically in my absence.

Until next time, I hope all readers are doing well. Together we are better.

Ken