The 2019 Garden Season Started Today

And so it begins...

Last year, I started the hot peppers between Christmas and New Year's. That was too late.

The Lemon Drop peppers started fruiting in October, but the Reapers started blossoming in November. It's now December and they are still plugging (slowly) along.

Might have fruit by spring. Or they might start over with blossoms in spring. Who knows. One Lemon Drop that produced a mediocre crop last year survived over the winter and gave me eight or nine crops this year.

I'm getting a little bit more of a running start this year. I started eight batches of peppers today, December 16th. Some of these are not as slow as the "super-hots," and I'm just getting a terribly early start this year. 

 

About half of these are seeds I've saved from the last couple of years; the rest are from growers around the country. Some came as a gift.

I also started some Impatiens this week. They took so terribly long to mature last year. It might have been better to start these in January or February, but it's too late now. I got excited. 

I also started a batch of Schizanthus. I was in a hurry and the package looked like an Impatiens package. Well, this will be interesting.

Also, I picked some lemon drop peppers and a lemon this week.