Some more kale is sticking up its head, and a little black eyed pea’s are getting slightly bigger.
Quite a few buds below the break. Just prune below the break and it will grow just fine, might have to intentionally select and train a new central leader once it gets established.
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All my direct sown seeds are still alive and haven’t been demolished by bugs yet, so I’m impressed with myself. Peas sprouted yesterday, so I need to get around to making their trellis.
I’m making another garden bed by removing a single layer of bricks from the edge of the driveway. Then I get to decide what to plant there… Maybe capsicums, since those can be a perennial and this is definitely a warm spot.
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This is totally unfair.
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Cough uh. Sorry for your climate.
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I live in a very warm place. You just live in a very warmer place. I’d say at least we don’t get wildfires, but we do now, so…
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I am definitely okay with killing them. We put some beer traps in today.
Two bell peppers sprouted after a looong time. I didn’t have much hope, but was giving them more time juuust in case.
Corn had not sprouted yet, and neither have the pole beans. I’m hoping the beans will still come through, and it’s just taking longer because of the cooler soil.
I’ve been tying little bits of twine to bridge the gap for the peas, then placing their little tendrils on the twine. Grab on, mfers!
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My peas are slow learners this year too. One is finally climbing a little after I showed it what to do. The other insists on flopping over onto its side.
There are people who treat peppers like dwarf citrus and overwinter them indoors, aggressively pruning them if necessary. I think it’s supposed to work better for chilis than milder varieties but haven’t tried it. Don’t feel like trying to keep the cat out of them.
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Yes, I’ve done some over winter indoors (some truly quality cowhorn peppers), but that’s not the same as really perennial.
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I potted up 40 little basil plants today. It never ceases to amaze me how long potting up takes.
I’m getting a lot of exercise bringing the tomatoes in and out for hardening off. It’s good I’m working from home all the time or I would not be able to do it yet most days – it still gets chilly enough where I’m aiming for the warmest part of the day.
I’m now waiting for the roots of my other plants to have soaked for 4-6 hours. I’ve already done the hard work of hole digging.
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I’m usually pretty happy to score a root. But that’s something totally different.
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Assuming it’s the same as we used to do for our trees, you cut around the root ball an inch or so deep every few inches. I think it was because the root ball for a tree was way bigger and impossible to really break apart like you would with a other plant
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^This. You can even use a serrated kitchen knife if you don’t have a box cutter or straight blade. 
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Tmw reading directions and you’re like “I read these 3 times and I fucked up anyway?”
Fortunately haven’t planted either apple tree yet. Though I did plant my potted peach tree yesterday and didn’t score the roots. Maybe it will be fine???
I’m so tired.
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The main reason to score the roots is to encourage outward growth. If the plant spent too long in the pot, the roots may have started circling around the side of the pot, since they had nowhere else to go. If planted like that, the roots may continue to circle instead of going out into the soil. (Or they could be fine) If you cut the roots in several places, the roots then have to work to regrow, but aren’t bound by their previous shape.
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The roots were very loose. There wasn’t all that much to score.
I hope it will all be fine and I haven’t ruined hundreds of dollars of plants 
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If it wasn’t a compact hard ball, you should end up ok
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It’s just confusing when the directions given by the company don’t seem relevant to the situation.
I lost the thread of the convo and realized you were probably referring to the peach tree. I actually… don’t know what the peach tree root ball was like. It was not super dense but had a lot of stringy stuff that kind of held it together that I assume are little root tendrils? I could probably dig it out, score it, and put it back but don’t know if that would do more harm than good.
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