Sprouted In Thyme

I have had some reach out about a plant sale this year. Due to a less flexible spring and work travel schedule, I was not able to grow for a sale this year. I plan to have a sale next year and will begin the announcement in early 2025. Thank you for your faithful support and look forward to serving you in 2025.

We appreciate your business this 2023 season. It was very successful because of you!!!

Don't let the rain stop you! We are open today 10-5pm and Sunday May 21, 10-5pm. Still lots of plants to pick from. Inventory list includes:

Cherry Tomatoes: Sweet Apertif and Honey Drop

Larger tomatoes:
Sweet Seedless
Kelloggs Breakfast
Parks Whopper
Jersey Devil
Amish Paste
Mortgage Lifter
Sue's Pink Beefsteak

Peppers:
Sweet Banana
Datil
Early Jalapeños
Ajvarski - sold out
Orange Bell
California Wonder Green
Inferno

Misc:
Cozelle Zucchini
Brussel Sprouts
Cauliflower
Egg Plant
Cilantro
Sage

Featured Pepper. The Ajvarski. We have grown this pepper as a personal favorite. The flavor is superior fresh, grilled, sauted, stir fry, or canned for the winter in sauce. On the sweet spectrum and delicious. We harvest when between green and red. We have plenty for your to try this year. Come to our sale for this and more

Featured tomato of the day. The Sweet Seedless. We have plenty available. Not only do they taste great, they are an early producer compared to other varieties. Get you jump on tomato season. This one is also a determinant variety that would work great in containers.

We all get excited as the weather warms up and the itch begins to plant our gardens. BUT, don't be fooled by rising temperatures. May has a lot of fluctuation and the temptation to start earlier than we should is real. If you don't mind covering your plants that can be an option.

Soil temperature for tomatoes should be above 50 degrees and peppers 55-60. You can use a thermometer to test your average soil Temps throughout the day. If the soil is too cold it will just delay growth and could predispose the plant to unessessary stress that could make the susceptible to disease.

Cool crops are fine at 50 or even below. Such as kale, lettuce, spinach, radishes, beets, carrots etc.

Be patience and hang in there. Planting is right around the corner.

Today is a great day to harden off your plants that you may have started from seed.

What is hardening off?

In a nut shell, it is preparing your plants to live life outdoors. Think how every year as humans, we need to sort of harden off before we can handle the sun. Our melanin needs activated in our skin to protect us from the sun. If we spend too much time in the sun in the spring unprotected we get burned. So we are not hardened-off. 🤣

With plants, it's a similar concept in that they need to build up their keratin in thier leaves and learn how to regulate their stoma or pores in thier leaves. Once your young plant growing indoors have put on some leaves and the weather starts getting nice, it is time to start acclimating them to outside, aka, hardening off.

Follow these steps progressing every 2 days!!!!

1. Place young plants outdoor on the porch so they begin to experience indirect light and temperature/humidity fluctuation. Preferably full shade.
2. Place some plants in morning sun for a couple hours then return to shade.
3. Increase time in the sun by 2 hours or so each day until plant is in the sun all day from morning until night, or at least 8 hours.

This should take about a week to do. Our plants at Sprouted In Thyme are hardened off so you can plant as soon as you purchase unless otherwise instructed.

Reminder, our plant sale will be held May 19 - 21, 2023 from 10am to 5pm each day. We will have a variety of plants listed in the image. There are limited quantities available. I do not have any hot Hungarian wax as they did not germinate this year. Feel free to message with questions. Still almost 4 weeks of growing to be had.

Address: 159 Lamberts Hollow Road, Bridgeport

See image below.

Growing, growing, growing. Keep those plants a growing!.

We love our morning routine of getting the grow lights on. The plants looks so healthy and strong. Starting to see some first sets of true leaves.

Come join us for the launch of a new seed saving and sharing community program. Marion County Master Gardeners in collaboration with Marion County Public Library will host the launch event. See details in image below. Share, share, share!