Starting Stuff In The Greenhouse
![Getting things started](https://i0.wp.com/darkskywv.net/waynes_impossible/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/IMAG0087-300x169.jpg?resize=399%2C225)
As mentioned in the previous entry, I am getting caught up – or attempting to anyway. So this is from early to late spring. I’m not going to bother “faking” the date although after it’s said and done, I might decide to.
I didn’t buy any transplants this year as I successfully grew everything in the greenhouse. I am going to buy a couple things that were either less successful or were since eaten by the AH animals.
Like last year, I used seeds from “Red Fresno” peppers that I saved from the grocery store.
![Grew "Farmstand" and "Best Boy". Both hybrids.](https://i0.wp.com/darkskywv.net/waynes_impossible/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/2016-05-22-16.55.01-300x169.jpg?resize=403%2C227)
The plants were very prolific last year…I mean almost Gilligan’s Island radioactive prolific (if you ever saw that episode). Last year I didn’t get many Jalapenos so I used these for the pickled sliced peppers. They’re nice in my salads, hot but not as hot as Jalapeno. I also have Jalapeno’s of course.
![I bought a small electric heater which helped keep the seedlings alive, but you need heat to get them to sprout in the first place. Anyway, using the greenhouse growing definitely has a learning curve. So I got the seeds started indoors, then moved them to the greenhouse and when they were big and strong enough I transplanted them into individual pots.](https://i0.wp.com/darkskywv.net/waynes_impossible/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/2016-06-07-08.08.11-300x169.jpg?resize=401%2C226)
seedlings alive, but you need heat to get them to sprout in the first place. Anyway, using the greenhouse growing definitely has a learning curve. So I got the seeds started indoors, then moved them to the greenhouse and when they were big and strong enough I transplanted them into individual pots.
![In the foreground, some Egyptian Onions. Been harvesting them and the lettuce for my salads (as well as store-bought Romaine lettuce).](https://i0.wp.com/darkskywv.net/waynes_impossible/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/2016-05-12-11.48.23-169x300.jpg?resize=225%2C399)
as store-bought Romaine lettuce).
![I had saved seeds from an unidentified lettuce. The seeds are black and most lettuce seeds I've seen are white so I am guessing that these are Black Seeded Simpson. :)](https://i0.wp.com/darkskywv.net/waynes_impossible/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/2016-05-22-16.54.49-300x169.jpg?resize=401%2C226)