Posted on 07/06/2012 10:51:22 AM PDT by Ellendra
It's Friday once again, and our regular gardening threadmasters still seem to be MIA. If anyone has the gardening ping list, or if anyone can get hold of JADB and have her send it to me, it would be much appreciated. In the mean time, I'm going to try and rebuild the list. That's going take a while.
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Just some great Inspiring pictures of your garden. I may just add a few more raised beds and stick with raised beds next year,
Banana squash starting to flower; tomatoes & peppers have set fruit. Beans, both bush & pole, are coming along on schedule.
“Serendipity” corn made “knee high by 4th of July”...just barely.
Potatoes & onions seem to be doing okay.
Peas & carrots are providing dinner veggies despite the heat.
Finally got 0.6” of rain last night. With highs of 95-104, and no rain worth mentioning for a month, I’ve been putting about 200-gallons of water/day on the garden, not counting the potatoes & the rhubarb patch. Potatoes, thanks to the heavy mulching, got 800-1,200 gallons for the month, and the rhubarb 100+/week. $1.50/400 gallons + 1 gallon of diesel to haul it from the water station in town. Usually we get enough rain to cut that by half to 2/3.
Used to work that way, but after the big FR crash & major fix a year or so ago, that's no longer the case. You can now use all lowercase and even leave out spaces.
I’m on the list.
Excerpt from a Freepmail JADB sent me in April.
sorry was checking which state you were in from the other thread and misread.
Here’s a little HOT HOT HOT calipso music to cool everyone off
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYITD8TMvcM
Great Garden... Great Photos... Good Job!!!
I use fresh Tabascos when I make sauce. Don't know how dried would work. We froze a bunch of peppers last year and I really didn't like the way they came out when they thawed. Still, they are useable just a bit different from a crisp, freshly picked pepper.
Whenever people ask me for Ghost pepper seeds I always include a bit of powder so they can get an idea of what the heat and taste will be like. Haven't had any sent back yet, hehe.
You just got to love the Hot Hot Hot song!
The frozen peppers are for cooking. They are softened by the freezing when they thaw but the heat and taste are still there.
Added you back in, thank you!
That’s a relief, thank you for posting that! I was getting worried about her.
You are growing apple trees in S Fl? I thought they were colder climate trees. What variety grows there? Maybe Texas apples are not out of the question after all.
Did Sevin, an insecticial soap and a 3 in 1 spray but nothing slowed them down. Yes, put it out in the early morning during their breakfast time and late in the day. Gave up on pinching them to death because they were too quick. Had to pull up all the squashes. The bugs then ran to the lettuces, greens, broccoli and kohlrabi and started on the jalapenos but thankfully it got too hot for them so they disappeared. Evil nasty things. Had them last year but not this bad.
I have an Anna and a Dorsett apple, which AFAICT are the only ones that will produce fruit with our limited number of chill hours (somewhere around 300 hours per year between 32 and 45 degrees). Both are supposed to be similar to a Golden Delicious, which is my favorite eating apple.
I have a tabasco plant that is over 6ft tall and it’s about 4 years old. That thing just won’t stop producing! I haven’t had much luck with habanero’s though.
I got them last year. It sounds like you are going through what I did. By the time I found them it was too late. It was widespread. I did get fruit off the plants though, they hit late. I knew they would be back and hit them early. I’m still vigilant though.
I’ve heard covering the plants with a very light fabric can help but I’m not entirely convinced.
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