WE'RE BACK!!

We have made it back from beautiful Colorado! Nicolle and I spent the past four days on a vacation to Colorado spending the first day in the car driving, the second day in Breckenridge, the third day in Vail and Silverthorne, and the last day driving home! We didn't do any skiing but did a lot of shopping, and spent a lot of quality time together!

Here we are in Breckenridge!

 

We made it home so late last night that I had to walk around the garden with a flashlight to see if we had any potato or onion sprouts.......and we had 0 sprouts, but I'm hopeful we will have something soon especially with this rain we just had.

 

While we were gone I was a little nervous about my tomato plants and pepper plants that we had in the green house. I left the grow light on them and we left with fingers crossed that they were going to be alright. As it turns out all the plants in plastic containers made it just fine and look really good! The plants in the peat pots......no so much. I'm going to be quite honest, I think I've decided that I'm not a big fan of these peat pots. Nicolle and I have tried to grow flowers from seeds in these pots and they germinate, get about an 1" tall, and then wilt over and die. I think that plastic containers retain the water so much better, where the peat pots pull the moisture from the soil and then the heat dries out the peat pots. I'm going to get some more plastic pots and start some new tomato plants in those, and since my pepper plants never germinated in the peat pots I will re-plant those in plastic containers as well. I am going to try one more time with peat pots though. I want to start some flower seeds in them, but this time I am going to pour about 1/4" of water in the tray that they sit in, to try and keep them moist by pulling water from the tray vs the soil. I'm not sure if it will work, but I figure it's worth a try!

The plants in the plastic containers look really good!

The ones in peat pots.....not so much!