Gardening Update

About a month ago I posted about my favorite exotic fruit, sweetie, or oroblanco. If you have missed the post, long story short, I bought a sweetie, that had a big seed, which is pretty rare as these are hybrids. The seed looked pretty healthy and because I had nothing to lose, I thought why not sow it, let's see what is going to come out of it.

I knew it from the start that I'm not going to get fruits out of it, but it's nice to have an exotic plant that is not grown in my country, as the climate is not suitable for that.

In one month, this is that it has become. You can see it in the first couple of photos. It is in the window, to get as much light as possible as I don't want to grow fast and get a weak seedling. I need to get a strong and healthy one. So far so good, I can't complain as the leaves are shiny, which means the seedling is healthy.

Next, I'd like to show you the red pepper, which is more than gorgeous. In my opinion it is too soon as the weather is still not suitable for gardening and by the time the weather can warm up, these seedlings will grow too tall and maybe they will not be strong enough. My dad is restless and always trying to get ahead with a few seedlings.

The problem is these are grown inside, there's no direct sunlight and there's a chance they get burnt in case we don't plant them outside in time, or get them used to direct sunlight.

Usually in March the farmers market starts to be filled with seedlings. It is the time to sell them, even though sometimes it's too early. If the seedlings are kept in a place where there's not enough light, you see 30cm, 40cm tall seedlings, that are already too tall and there's a chance to not survive outside. Sometimes I'm checking them out and smiling for myself as I would never tell them what I know.

This is another type of pepper, a little bit smaller, but still nicely growing. Actually in my opinion this should be the size of the seedlings, but I'm not the head gardener, I'm just a helper. I put a match next to it so you can have an idea how tall these are. In this phase they need a lot of care as the seedlings are growing in the direction of sunlight and need to be turned bask and forth to grow straight.

Also at this point the seedlings need regular watering. The soil is not too much as repotting is coming soon, so the quantity of water needs to be refilled daily or every two days.

Last, but not least, there's the cauliflower. This time we got plenty, I don't know if we need this much, but if we get more than we need, there's always someone, a neighbor, a friend who doesn't have seedlings and we can swap or just give them the excess. That is how things work around here.

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