Petree Nursery and Greenhouses

This is a photo post of pics taken at work. I am so lucky to be working at the nursery full time this year.

Air plants. Funky.

Pansies

Greenhouses 6 & 7

Primrose

Already started the tomatoes and peppers.

Aeonium and Crassula

Gearing up for planting season

First seed purchase of the year.

Hoping to distract the kitties from hating each other with this.

Propagating geraniums

Seed Starting

My 2013 garden has officially been started.  I have most of my indoor seeds germinating except for tomatoes because I haven't been able to find any varieties locally that I like.  My wish list includes green zebras, of course, and a few brandywines, and from there I just want something orange and yellow but I want them all to be indeterminate and heirloom.

What I have started indoors are tomatillos, cherry tomatoes, basil, catnip, sweet peppers, hot peppers, cabbage and broccoli. I might start a flat of marigolds inside as well.

The Dirt

Frank tilled the garden! 

Planted peas, lettuce and spinach.

Hornworm Predators

With the help of parasitic wasps and ladybugs, the war on hornworms has begun.  This morning I found a wasp eating the head of a small hornworm right next to a ladybug feasting on the larvae.  I killed four, so hopefully together we can prevail.

Pickling

Made my Grandma's Freezer Pickles several days ago and left them in the fridge in tupperwares.  This morning I put them in jars and into the deep freeze.  I also sliced up pickle spears for dills. They seem a little trickier, because I am probably going to have to sterilize and pasteurize.

Freezer Pickles going into jars.

Freezer Pickles

Dill Pickle spears chilling in salt water.

Cooler Weather

It got down to 65 degrees last night.  Felt so nice to be chilly in a t-shirt this morning.  This coupled with a really good watering yesterday, and the garden has kind of bounced back.

Green zebra tomato that almost got eaten by a hornworm.

Garden peach tomatoes starting to get peachy.

The corn should be pollinating right now.  

Tomatillos

Yellow pear tomatoes.