Potatoes Poppin' and More

Boy am I excited about the fact all these potato plants are busting through the soil. These were the potatoes that I had grown from seed potatoes in the first half of the season last year, and stored all winter long in a brown paper bag, to be planted this Spring.

Upon viewing the stored potatoes, they had quite literally ALL sprouted their chits inside the storage bag, so I wasn't confident they would continue to grow if they had already used up all their stored energy during the Winter. But nevertheless, I went ahead and stuffed them in the dirt.. this time inside the fenced in portion of our garden farm to protect them from predators in the night.

Some of the seed potatoes we had left over were only 1cm in diameter, (quite small) had several inch long chit growths and yet they are the ones bursting through the soil first! Bizarre.

Many of my Kiwi vines I had begun to grow last year, survived the mild Winter we had, and are beginning to come out of dormancy, racing to push out their first leaves of the season.

Still won't expect to see any kiwi this year.. perhaps another year of growth before the vines are mature enough to produce fruit.

And it looks like every single onion and shallot I planted has come up through the dirt with their spindly "leaves".. if one would call them leaves I'm not sure.

Certainly excited about home grown onions and shallots.. and the defensive properties the onions and shallots bring to the garden.. their smell wards off certain predators to my garden.. well that is also very valuable and a reason I wanted to plant them.

We also deconstructed the basement grow room this past weekend and transplanted all the Over wintered peppers plants back into the dirt!

Several of the peppers were beginning to look very stressed, although they still were producing peppers, round four. I know after a few days of acclimation to the new sunshine and temperatures swings during night and day, that these pepper trees I had growing all Winter will boom with production.

Jalapeno plant is growing a fourth set of peppers for us to enjoy.

Scorpion Pepper plant looks more like a small tree, how large the stem became over Winter. Here are several miniature scorpion peppers that had stalled growth but still ripened to a brilliant red. Lots of heat packed inside that dinky pepper.

Lettuce, Spinach going to seed soon, and Parsley, respectively. All making the transition from basement grow room to outdoor paradise. I expect to see everything explode in size once the roots take in a week. And then shoot straight to seed because we cease to have a Spring anymore.. just straight from Winter to Summer.

So many sproutlings coming up down in the farm area.. excitement boils over.

My little family is always here with me. And I am blessed by it.

I pray to Heavenly Father. Take care!