New Growth on Old Plants

I'm surprised this winter by how much new growth is popping out on the peppers and fuchsias from last year. 

 

I was expecting them to die. These are reportedly annuals. They're clearly not dead. 

Mid February Update

My to do list says that February 15th is time to plant some of last month's brassica starts into the garden. I put one out there (under a dome) a couple of days ago. We'll see if it survives.

I don't think I'll be able to plant things into the garden this weekend. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The other thing on the list for this weekend was to start tomatoes and sweet peppers.This is a little early, but I want really strong starts come early May, when it's time for them to go into the garden. And I'll probably give a few away, too.

 

These are on a heating pad, under a dome, inside the greenhouse. I'm looking forward to these, too.  

Choices this year: 

Slicing Tomatoes:
• Brandywine for flavor, even though they're low producers. Indeterminate.
• Cherokee Purple, also for flavor. We'll see how they produce. Also indeterminate. 

• Delicious. I hope they live up to their name. Indeterminate heavy producers.
• Legend: Determinate. For in the greenhouse, where indeterminate gets out of control pretty quickly.

Cooking Tomatoes: 

• San Marzano. Is there any reason to try anything else? Indeterminate, heavy producers. 

Cherry Tomatoes: 

• Chocolate Cherry, because it's yummy. 

• Unlabeled red cherry tomatoes from previous years. 

(I'm planning to restrict cherry tomatoes to pots this year, particularly hanging pots.)

Sweet Peppers: 

• Poblano. I've never grown these before. Looking forward to it. 

• Big Jim. For roasting on the grille. 

• California Wonder: just your basic bell pepper. 

• Big Ol' Bell. Not sure what this is; seeds from online somewhere.

February Tomatoes

I'm still getting cherry tomatoes from a 2020 plant. They're pretty good especially for fresh tomatoes in February. 

My goal is to have tomatoes from a 2021 plant before the 2020 plant is done. 

 

This is my leading candidate. I don't know what variety this is, since it's a weed; I suspect that it's a cherry tomato of some sort.