Had a 30 degree night but had a new mosquito hatch the last 2 days... horrible out there at sunset!
Had a 30 degree night but had a new mosquito hatch the last 2 days... horrible out there at sunset!
I just planted a case and a half of onion plants (3,000) plus transplanted 500 from my starter bed. 500 more to go. 7 hours bent over to plant . Legs and back in lots of pain. Pictures to follow.
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thanks for the post as its winter here but spring is coming. ordered some seed and will order more soon.
Garlic in the ground since the end of Oct . Covered with 2 feet of leaves and a foot of snow. That'll keep them snug and warm over winter
Being human is not for sissies.
It's warm here today lol About 75 degrees atm. I have purple hull peas, cayenne, bhut joloka (ghost pepper), thai peppers, and jalapenos (M) that are all three feet or higher.
ordering most of my seed now, garden is going to be bigger this year and going to do a lot of brine pickleing.
I got a bag full of gypsy peppers off my plants before a killing frost got them the other day. I was wondering how long they were going to keep producing peppers , looks like December is it.
At the end of summer I left them , during the fall they bounced back and did pretty good.
I got at least 20 jars of pickled gypsy peppers between August and December.
When they get big I stuff them like you would do a bell pepper...talk about good.
Tuesday night I we had some for supper, they freeze extremely well and heat up in microwave for a quick supper.
Gary
Gary,
Do you pick your gypsy peppers green (yellow green) or do you wait till they turn red? I grow about 200 of them and let them turn red before picking. I will get 90% of them to turn red without rotting, where I only get about 10% of the bell peppers to turn red. For us, my wife will slice up 2 large boxes of them and put them in the freezer. we still have lots of them. I have problems keeping the plants producing past July because the deer love them. They jump my 8 1/2 foot fence and eat all the leaves off the pepper plants. They also eat the bell and gypsy peppers. Normally they only eat the leaves off the hot peppers, but this year they ate all my jalapenos. They did not eat the Habanero peppers or the leaves on the plants.
There is no difference between communism and socialism, except in the means of achieving the same ultimate end: communism proposes to enslave men by force, socialism—by vote. It is merely the difference between murder and suicide. Ayn Rand
do you guys grow sweet banana peppers or hungarian hot wax peppers? if you dont, you should, as they out produce every other pepper known. they make great pickled peppers also. the hungarian hot wax is the hot banana type and is too hot for me. i bet they would sell well for you at the market. they turn red also.
Some seed catalogs call the gypsy variety pepper a sweet pepper others call it a banana pepper.
It is shaped like a bell pepper, only somewhat pointed. I grow it for sale as a sweet red pepper. It is hard to get a pepper to ripen down here because of the high humidity. They are wet with dew from 9 pm to 10 am every day. Bacteria and fungi love it. I do grow some hot peppers, but they are less than 0.1% of my sales. I don't like extra hot peppers myself, but I have a couple of customers that do. I might try a couple of the plants for them.
There is no difference between communism and socialism, except in the means of achieving the same ultimate end: communism proposes to enslave men by force, socialism—by vote. It is merely the difference between murder and suicide. Ayn Rand
one year i grew hungarian hot wax peppers as i didnt realize how hot they were. had a bushel of them picked and couldnt use them. a dr. at work found this out and came and got the whole harvest. ate them like candy and canned the rest into pickles. i believe your right as the gypsy pepper is related to the banana pepper. the german farmers in n.dak raise sweet banana peppers, pickle them with lots of garlic and one small hot pepper in the quart jar just to warm them up a little. they make their dill pickles that way also , lots of garlic and one small hot pepper to warm up the dill pickle.
Yellow-green with just a blush of red . In my low lying garden about 50% will rot before turning completely red. I'm only growing 6 bushes and the squirrels and possum leave them alone, not many insect pest seem to fool with them either. I got an old tree with bees and I don't like to spray a lot of insecticides , I don't want to kill them. They pollinate the few tomatoes I plant and the 4 citrus trees I have.
A 30-30 will solve the deer problem...aren't farmers allowed to eliminate crop destroying critters ?
Gary
"A 30-30 will solve the deer problem...aren't farmers allowed to eliminate crop destroying critters ?"
Too many of them. I shoot the ones that come in from the back when I see them, but I have houses and a double wide across the street with woods behind them. The deer that come over from the front are nocturnal. There have been a few illegally shot at night, but I don't know anything about that. The neighbor to the back side of me has quit leasing to hunters and the place is filling with the rats with antlers. I need to go kill a few more in the back, but I don't have any more room in the freezer.
There is no difference between communism and socialism, except in the means of achieving the same ultimate end: communism proposes to enslave men by force, socialism—by vote. It is merely the difference between murder and suicide. Ayn Rand
get one of those big white sheep dogs and put him in with the garden at night. he will keep the deer out of the garden, i did that in n.dak. years ago and it worked. when i gave him to a sheep rancher who wanted him the deer took over the garden again. it was the big white french dog. deer never came near the garden when he slept in it.
Deep winter, in planning stages to see what we want to put in this year(I share the garden space with my neighbor, it is on both lots). Going to triple the size of the garden to accommodate her and her daughter plus her aunt. She is a master gardener so I will have a lot more help this year! Her aunt moved into a small apartment and she is taking over the house next month.
nothing like looking foreward to spring. going to add a little fungus fertilizer dust to each pot i plant a seed in next march in the house. any body else try this to help make a stronger root system?
Anybody ever heard of soaking the seeds in warm water to start?
wrap them in a damp paper towel and put in a sealed container in the window. check them every couple of days and when they get a tail with hairs on it plant them.
That's what I've been doing,, but with the amount of seeds I plan on is sorta hard to.
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