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Last Friday a friend brought me a dozen pepper seedlings. She had been driving behind a plant- nursery truck headed for a commercial farm, when one of the flats of seedlings fell off the truck as it whooshed down the highway. She stopped and picked up the flat. Amazingly, the three inch tall fragile plants were mostly undamaged.
All she knows is that they are pepper plants, whether hot or bell pepper is unknown. She has planted some, given lots away, and when she found out I love pepper of all kinds, brought me a dozen seedlings. A dozen! A couple was all I wanted. The orphan plants sat on a table outside drying up in a foam bowl. I couldn't stand to see them die from neglect after all they'd been through.
I bought a sack of potting soil mixture and used it to fill up some plastic milk jugs I had cut the tops off of. Then I put the little pepper's feet in the dirt and watered them. Now it's wait and see what they do. My tabletop garden is running out of room..yesterday I pulled up some of the flourishing but crowded lettuce and radish plants which are hand high, and made a salad of the young tender greens.
I still have cucumber seeds I have to plant somewhere.If I have to buy another table and other supplies, these few veggies are gonna be mighty expensive--but that salad I grew myself was very satisfying! Susil
