#i have enough tomato products preserved from last year to last except for maybe pizza sauce

[jensownzoo]

The eggplant seeds are germinating at record speeds (at least for me)! Half of the Black Beauty and Ping Tung are up. Still waiting on Listada, which is most interesting to me since those are the first seed-saved eggplant that I've done. Want to see if I did it right.

Today I started herbs and peppers:

The peppers are in their ziplock-bag-and-wet-paper-towel greenhouses since I found that method worked best for me. They'll go into the standard six packs once they germinate.

My overwintered jalapeños are doing great so will just need potting up when it's time to move them outside. I think they may be three years old at this point.

Also, while avoiding the task I was supposed to do today, I got the trellis situation sorted for one of the raised beds in the rear. I had to remove the woven wire fence panels from the short cross-bed to allow for doors to open on the long bed that I'm encasing in anti-wildlife hardware cloth. And I wanted to make it so one side of the trellis was vertical and one side sloped to accommodate different types of climbing plants, so I put in a few t-posts to support that.

Before:

After:

All held together by the grace of cable ties.

I also got all the wire hoops pulled from the rear beds (and removed the screwed in cable clips that held them in place). I'll get them installed in the front beds tomorrow.