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8 年樓齡，但殘舊。車位少。

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Pepper retried

I sowed some pepper seeds in the pot on the left today. This time no overwatering. And, I mixed the soil with some bone meal. Not on the top though. The bone meal stinks.

The radishes in the photo are two weeks old?

Autopsy

Just went to a nearby garden to get some bone meal fertilizer. When i asked the shop keeper what might have caused my pepper to drop its leaves, he said quite firmly - overwatering.

That should be it.

If it were the fertility of the soil, only the old pots would suffer and the new one should have survived.

anyway I will use some bone meal with the next generation.

The photos are four new radishes. The one at the center is a vegetable.

Lesson learned: Why Overwatering May Kill Plants

Read some articles on the internet and learned probably why my pepper plant's leaves have turned yellow and been falling off.


Why Overwatering May Kill Plants

http://www.ehow.com/info_8573062_overwatering-may-kill-plants.html

Too much is a no no

I think I have been over-watering the leftmost pepper. Its leaves have turned yellow and some of them even fell off.

From now on, I will cut back on the lavish supply of water.

Day 25 for the second batch of radishes

The leaves of the radishes didn't grow much since the baby leaves had emerged. The stems didn't get any longer either.

Why was that?

Last weekend, I suspected that it was due to the low level of fertility in the soil. I sowed the seeds of the second batch as soon as I removed their predecessors. The soil didn't have a chance to recuperate. I didn't add a lot of extra nutrients to it as well.

But then I observed that the rightmost radishes grew better than their peers in the other pots. Why? They are exposed to more or less the same amount of sunlight. Their soil are more or less the same infertile. What made them grow better?

I suspected that it was the way I watered them.

In the rightmost pot, my favorite plant is the pepper. I don't really care about the radishes there. So, when I watered the pot, I would just pour as much water as to the pot. As I did that, I would inevitably make the radish leaves wet. Whereas I took extra care not to wet the leaves of radishes in the other containers. That could be the reason for the difference in their growth rate.

So, since last weekend, I would purposely wet the leaves of the plants whenever I watered them. That seems to do the trick!!! The growth of all peppers and radishes has improved a lot!

Second batchers matching into the second week

The radishes are growing okay. Not surprisingly fast. But they are healthy. Their stems are now much shorter than their predecessors, who prolonged their stem to compete with their neighbors for sunlight.

There's one thing that has been puzzling me. In the leftmost pot, the seed that I sowed in the center of the pot never germinated. It failed for the first time. And it also failed for the second tim. Perhaps something wrong with the depth at which I sowed the seed? Or, the surrounding seedlings are releasing toxin to harm their neighboring competitors?

The compost tea didn't work well - at least not for the rightmost pepper plant. It's still thin and not too tall. Its leaves are small also.

The pepper plant in the middle performs the worst. Shortest, thinnest and growing the slowest. So, I am going to use something else with the weaker plants -- chicken soup. I mean, chicken poop soup.

The leftmost pepper plant is growing wonderfully. The leaves are big. Its stem is thick. And it's shooting up straight and tall. Looking forward to its pepper wonder fruits.

1 week after sowing the second batchers

Most seeds have germinated as expected.

Day 42: Radish Cherry Belle - Failure Review

It's been 42 days. The rightmost pot is a total failure. I hope I can learn the lesson. Otherwise, the time, energy, money -- all that would be wasted.

Here is my review.

The radishes in the rightmost pot are the thinnest and smallest compared with the other pots. Why? I think it might have to do with:

1. the shape of the pot: The bowl-shaped pot does hold water as well as the others do. I found that the soil was pretty dry after I dug up all the radishes.
2. the way the seeds were sowed: When I sowed the seeds 42 days ago, I just kind of sprinkled them on top of the soil and then covered them up by sweeping the soil surface with my hands. As a result, the root system of the plants did not get to develop as healthily as they would have if the seeds had been sowed deeper into the soil.
3. overcrowding:  I sowed too many seeds in that small pot. So, the radishes competed against one another for sunlight. So, most of them developed unusually long red stem in order to position themselves for the best spot for the sun. The thing is, the red stem part is the part that would have developed into the "meat" if it were in the soil.

Take a look at their roots. They were very shallow:

After killing them all in the rightmost post, I have sowed another round of radish seeds - but this time in a different way than before:

1. I made holes in the soil with a pencil. Each hole is about an inch deep. I placed one seed in each hole. That should allow the root systems to develop more healthily.
2. I held back my greed and sowed 7 seeds only. They are at least 2 inches apart from one another. Hopefully, they won't be overcrowded.
3. I gave it 2 bottles of water after seeding. The soil was soaked and wet.

That makes today the first day of my second batch of radishes - the 7 disciples. 

On a side note, the rectangular container has one radish setting fruit. How did it make it? I will save the review for next time. At least, it gives me some comfort.

Bushy radishes haven't set fruit

Some of the radishes have grown really tall; some even have their leaves turn yellow. Yet, none has any sign of setting fruit. It's quite disappointing.

The peppers are starting to get taller and stronger. But the rightmost one is still the weakest. I will use compose tea with it this weekend.

It's been a month

It's the 36th day since the first pepper seed was sowed; 28th day since the second batch.

The rightmost pepper is still growing slowly. The compost tea didn't work as well as I had expected. I think I have to do something about it.

Radishes outgrow Pepper Wonders

It's been 29 days since I sowed the first round of pepper seeds.

But the 21-day-old radishes are much bigger than the senior peppers.

The young peppers are starting to catch up with eldest brother too.

I have been trying out compost tea with the rightmost pepper. Let's see if the tea can boost its growth.

Peppers in the wild

I have more pepper seedlings than I can handle. So today I am putting all of them in the wild.

Be good. Be prosperous. My strong five.