Week 2: Progress

Things have really started to take off this week. We had a couple of days of rain and that helped out a ton. Everything has sprouted, except the jalapenos and the rosemary. Unfortunately, the marigolds are growing slower than the vegetables.

Note to self: Plant marigolds about 4 weeks before planting everything else.

The green beans seem to be aggressive growers, but the dang jalapeno seeds still haven't sprouted yet. I did some research online and it can (supposedly) take anywhere from 14-21 days for jalapenos to germinate. The jalapeno seeds I planted are from store bought peppers I ate about four weeks ago. I am going to give them until next week to sprout and then I am going to the gardening store to buying a jalapeno plant.

Interesting Tip: I learned an interesting thing about jalapeno plants this week. Apparently, if you snip off the first flowers that the plant creates, it makes the plant grow even bigger before producing more flowers. That means more jalapenos!

This upcoming week, I am going to have to make some organic pesticide. I took a close look at the plants and I do see little critters crawling all over my plants. Not bad ones (I think?), but critters none the less.