My very first attempt towards edible gardening was sometime in mid May 2013. Ouh yeah, I’ve planted fruit trees and flower plants before, but never seriously into edible plants.
On that momentous day, I bought myself with a full set of gardening tools, several bags full of topsoil, decorative landscaping tools and plenty of seeds. Chili seeds.
Then, it happpened…
When I took out the soil and my gardening set, my elder sister who lives next door came out with her huge rectangular container plus more seeds. Chili seeds. Since we were, at that time, both blind as a bat (only when it comes to gardening), we decided to combine effort. We placed to place HER chilli seeds, on top of MY topsoil, inside HER plastic, rectangular container.
Then we waited…
A week passed by. Nothing, A month, still nothing.
While waiting, I read and read everything there is to know about planting chili. Ceh, we learned our first three lessons the hard way:
LESSON 1: Any purchased seeds need to soaked into warm water for at least a day or so, to assist them to germinate faster. And,
LESSON 2: That topsoils are not the correct medium to germinate seeds. A planting soil or peatmoss would have been a better choice. Alternatively, there’s also non-soil medium, called cocopeats.
LESSON 3: Chilies, unlike fruit plants, demand lots of TLC and pampering. Something which really aren’t suitable for a Gemini Gardener. No, am not pulling your legs!
Till next time.
– GG
GG's CHILIES & HERBS GARDEN 