{"id":10350,"date":"2024-04-03T13:19:22","date_gmt":"2024-04-03T17:19:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=10350"},"modified":"2024-04-03T13:19:22","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T17:19:22","slug":"were-starting-up-the-heat-in-the-greenhouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2024\/04\/03\/were-starting-up-the-heat-in-the-greenhouse\/","title":{"rendered":"We’re starting up the heat in the greenhouse"},"content":{"rendered":"

I guess spring must be here. I’ve started transplanting peppers, first with the habaneros I planted early, but there are a whole lot more seedlings that need to be transplanted soon. With not enough room in the house this year, due to a couple of big Angel’s Trumpets I’m overwintering in the sunny south-facing windows in the living room, we’ve got to put the transplants in the greenhouse. Fortunately, the weather is warming up, with nighttime temperatures only in the high twenties and daytime temps over 45 degrees F. Luckily, that means the propane heater in the greenhouse will keep it nice and toasty at night. During the day, the sun usually keeps it warm enough to keep plants happy \u2014 me too!<\/p>\n

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The transplanted peppers are quickly growing taller every day!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This year, I’m using some 4-inch square plastic pots to hold my pepper transplants to enable them to grow nice big roots before going into the garden. As last year was such a poor pepper year, I want to make sure we have lots <\/em>of peppers this year, both in the hoop houses and out in the fields. Everyone loves my new Gaucho relish, made from Cowboy Candy syrup and chopped, seeded Sugar Rush Peach hot peppers, I’ve got to can up lots and lots. We’re now on our last jar and feeling very sad.<\/p>\n

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To transplant the peppers, I pour my Sunshine #4 or ProMix into this lidded garbage can, dampen it with hot water, then fill my 4-inch pots inside to contain the mess.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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After the pepper plants are transplanted into the 4-inch pots, they go into flats in our little greenhouses until the big greenhouse gets fired up.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We had a lovely Easter dinner with the family on Sunday. But, darn, we all forgot to take pictures! Oh well, that’s how it goes. Now I’ve got the leftover ham to can up in various recipes. And, as my knees are feeling better, I’ll enjoy that a lot. Such a lot of meals we get from one big ham! Amazing! — Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I guess spring must be here. I’ve started transplanting peppers, first with the habaneros I planted early, but there are a whole lot more seedlings that need to be transplanted soon. With not enough room in the house this year, due to a couple of big Angel’s Trumpets I’m overwintering in the sunny south-facing windows […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10353,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,8,9,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10350"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10350"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10354,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10350\/revisions\/10354"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}