Leeks, Eggplants, and Peppers 2014

Giant Musselburgh Leeks
Date sown: February 16, 2014
Started indoors 
Date germinated: Started sprouting February 23, 2014 (1 week)
Transplanted outside May 17, 2014
Would grow again?  Yes, though they grew so much larger and were so much healthier last year!  After being transplanted outdoors this summer, more than half were fried by the sun, despite having been hardened off.  We bought about 12 leek transplants from the nursery, though even they did not grow as robustly as my heirloom and started-from-seed Giant Musselburgh Leeks did last summer.


Ping Tung Eggplant (heirloom)
Date sown:  March 13, 2014
Started indoors 
Date germinated:  March 23, 2014  (10 days)
Transplanted outdoors:  6/6/14
Observations:
7/8/14 - Two eggplants spotted!  Woohoo!  One on each plant.  Each about 3 inches long.
Would grow again? yes


Rosa Bianca Eggplant (heirloom)
Date sown:  March 13, 2014
Started indoors
Date germinated: March 23, 2014  (10 days)
Transplanted outdoors:  6/6/14
Would grow again?  Not in this gardening zone.


Black Beauty Eggplant (heirloom)
Date sown:  March 13, 2014
Started indoors
Date germinated:  March 24, 2014  (11 days)
Transplanted outdoors:  6/6/14
Would grow again?  Not in this gardening zone.


Vittoria Eggplant (hybrid)
Date sown:  March 13, 2014
Started indoors 
Date germinated: March 23, 2014  (10 days)
Transplanted outdoors:  6/6/14
Would grow again?  yes


Italian Peppers (heirloom?  Received in a trade)
Date sown:  March 24, 2014
Started indoors
Date germinated:  Forgot to note
Transplanted outdoors:  6/6/14
Observations:
8/8/14 - This variety produced peppers well before the other varieties.  Long, green, pointy peppers that remind me of witches' noses.  They apparently turn red if left on the plant to ripen. 
Sept 2014 - These are definitely not the Sweet Italian/Nardello peppers I thought they were.  These are *hot*!  Similar heat to jalapenos, maybe a bit hotter.  What am I going to do with all these hot peppers?!  Without question, these were the most prolific peppers I grew this summer.  Why can't my bell peppers produce like that?  *L*
Approximate date harvested: early September


Early Sunsation Peppers (yellow hybrid from T&T Seeds)
Date sown:  March 24, 2014
Started indoors 
Date germinated: April 8, 2014  (approx. two weeks - two of the five planted)
Transplanted outdoors:  6/6/14
Observations:  Not that large or productive.  Had to harvest while still green.
Would grow again?  Unsure

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