Lots of Lunar Planting Tonight

Tonight I took advantage of the last lunar date for sowing above ground crops for the next few weeks. I sowed almost a full flat of stuff and I am starting to wonder if I will run out of grow light space this year. I had to move the propagator on top of the fridge for this sowing because of lack of space under the light. I think I need some more lights... Here is a list of what was sown:

• Red Celery - eight plants
• Big Chile II Peppers - six plants
• Ancho Pepper - two plants
• Early Jalapeno - two plants
• Elefantenrussel Pepper (yellow cyan) - two plants
• Pustagold Pepper (sweet whitish pepper that turns red) - eight plants
• Golden California Wonder Pepper (from Granny!) - two plants
• Quadrato Rosso D'Asti Pepper (from Granny!) - two plants
• Tatsoi - eight plants
• Pac Choi - eight plants
• Vates Kale - four plants
• Tuscano Kale - four plants
  
• 'Little Gem' Romaine - eight plants

In doing all this sowing I realized I am going to have a lot of peppers! To fit them all in some will be planted by the square foot in a raised bed, some will be grown in a hanging basket and others will be planted on top of upside down tomatoes. Last year I started some of my peppers really early and they grew much better then the later sown one. This year I decided to start all the peppers early.

The greens I started will hopefully start going out in the coldframe in a couple weeks. They should provide some early salad greens which I have been craving lately. The red celery is the same ones I grew this past fall. I am hoping they turn much redder when grown in stronger sun.

I have some Pasilla Pepper seed coming in the mail that I was not able to sow today. I will start them as soon as they arrive, it will provide a good comparison to lunar and non-lunar planting. The next thing coming up will be sowing all the Brassica's on March 15-16. The growing season is coming!