{"id":1708,"date":"2022-01-23T15:40:30","date_gmt":"2022-01-23T20:40:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.briancbecker.com\/blog\/?p=1708"},"modified":"2022-01-23T15:40:56","modified_gmt":"2022-01-23T20:40:56","slug":"2022-01-023-winter-greenhouse-sprouts-micro-tomatoes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.briancbecker.com\/blog\/2022\/2022-01-023-winter-greenhouse-sprouts-micro-tomatoes\/","title":{"rendered":"2022.01.23: Winter Greenhouse Sprouts & Micro Tomatoes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It’s 2022! Pretty crazy, and winter is hitting full force here in Pittsburgh. We’ve had single digit lows and snow on the ground for a week now. I overwatered the greenhouse and with the cold temps and not much light (even with grow lights), most everything is doing a bit poorly – lots of yellowing and leave loss. Hopefully things will turn around in a couple of months when spring starts arriving. I did up the temperature in my greenhouse a few degrees from 65-70 range to 68-73 F because it always felt a little too chilly to me. But to take advantage of those cooler temperatures, I planed a bunch of cool weather crops: romaine lettuce, sugar snap peas, bok choy, mustard, and cilantro. They are just starting to come up! Hopefully I’ll be able to get a harvest before the increased sun in March spikes the greenhouse temperatures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Peas and bok choy just starting to sprout in my greenhouse 4′ x 2′ x 6″ plastic “under the bed” storage bin.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I also was doing some research on new micro tomatoes and discovered a few new varieties to try: Siam, Red Velvet, Cocoa, and Heartbreaker Twiggy. On the pepper side, I’ll also try pot-a-peno and fresh bites, both dwarfs. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s 2022! Pretty crazy, and winter is hitting full force here in Pittsburgh. We’ve had single digit lows and snow…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.briancbecker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.briancbecker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.briancbecker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.briancbecker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.briancbecker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1708"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.briancbecker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1711,"href":"http:\/\/www.briancbecker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1708\/revisions\/1711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.briancbecker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.briancbecker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.briancbecker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}