Thursday, June 12, 2014

Coriander (Cilantro) and transplants (2 June 2014)

The first flowers are out on the peas! Exciting! Also noticed a few seedlings on the 31st of May on the coriander patch. Couldn't rule them out being weeds. Yesterday, tiny true leaves with the characteristic jagged edges started coming out. Looked like tiny fists unfurling.

Transplanted three peppers and four tomato plants yesterday. The peppers looked sturdy but the tomatoes had wilted from being in a closed car for too long. Happy to report that this morning they all looked to have settled in their new home. Lots of water and sunlight must have helped, and the temperatures were not too harsh either (74 high 46 low). Was a little concerned about the low, but I had been exposing them to the cold for about a week now. Encouraged, I transplanted four more tomatoes today.

Put up a wire fence around the plot yesterday to keep away rabbits and other bigger critters, which I suspect ate up my cauliflower transplants. 20 gauge 2 inch hexagonal mesh wire held in place by wooden stakes and 20 utilitech zip ties.

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