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Springtime!
It's getting warmer and spring-time-ier outside. The cat is venturing into the garden a bit more now, or snoozing in the sun in the wintergarden, where it's now getting more pleasant again. Well, apart from the not-so-beautiful-looking dead plants in their pots.
Every year, I try to get some of the tomatoes and some of the chili plants over the winter - with mixed success, sometimes a bit more, sometimes no success at all. Usually some of the chili plants survive, and if I'm lucky, one or two tomatoes make it through.
This was the case this year (unless it now dies a sudden death because I wrote about it) - one tomato made it. The really nice thing about that?
aThis picture was taken yesterday. There's hope to have early tomatoes!
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I've never tried that with tomatoes but I have a "Madamme Jeanette"- pepper that is 4 or 5 years old by now. (Very hot, like a scotch bonnet.)
How do you avoid pests, like wool lice and such? My greenhouse is too cold, but plants on the windowsill get white flies and all kins of lice. I've been told that it is related to draft, but it doesn't matter whether the windowsill is from a opening window or one that doesn't open at all.
I get lice and white flies as well - though there are, theoretically, white-fly-predators (tiny wasps) to keep those in check. We also have a sundew plant standing around there, which catches quite a few of the white and/or black flies. Otherwise... well, they either survive the bugs, or they don't.