Our ghost pepper babies. Thanks again to Oshkalaboomboom.
A hot banana pepper.
Posted on 09/28/2012 10:17:11 AM PDT by greeneyes
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I do intend to plant that winter garden, but other issues keep intruding on my best intentions.LOL
Our ghost pepper babies. Thanks again to Oshkalaboomboom.
A hot banana pepper.
I just had to try out my “new” pawn shop camera.
Love the pictures, but I am jealous. The few peppers I have are about the size of a pewee marble.
This is the first time that we have had any luck with peppers. A soil test and the resulting amendments really made a difference in the peppers this year. We even had some green and red bell peppers, but not many.
Got the garden dug up and tilled this week. I planted turnips, broccoli, cauliflower, onions, garlic, shallots and two types of leaf lettuce. May get heavy rains here later tonight and tomorrow.
I actually tilled the garden after I dug it with a fork and noticed a lack of earthworms. I have my compost piles from mowing the yard getting ready to bring back to the garden in nearby vacant lots.
Pretty much all, like six or seven, of my bananas decided to bear at the same time. That was certainly not the plan. 
Some of my winter tomatoes, which should hang down and cover the dock rail in a couple weeks, are just starting to produce. 
Last year I tried a lot of stuff over the winter. This year, I'm going to stick to the stuff I like best, like broccoli 
and cauliflower 
and lettuce 
and spinach. Maybe I should plant some.
Yeh, that dry weather we had this summer resulted in the same thing here. Not an earth worm to be found so far guess they are really really deep down.
Gosh, those pics all look beautiful. You do have a great climate as long as you have the water.
I lived in western FResno county from 1933 to 1954 and wells were shallow enough to bring up water with old pitcher pump. I like your photo very much...
Thanks for posting your photos. Please excuse my ignorance re: container gardening. Do the tomato plants remain at a size commensurate w/the containers? How many heads of cabbage can you get from one container (e.g., do you have multiple cabbage plant containers?). Same way for lettuce?
We planted a flat of tomatoes from the FFA plant sale in late May, and they’re huge now. How long are your winter tomato plants viable?
JADB’s last post was a while ago. Does she usually tell anyone when she’ll be gone for a while? I PM’d her a note of appreciation re: her information on the Excalibur dehydrator (we got one about a week and a half ago and have used it constantly—we made watermelon leather and canteloupe chips as well as lots of other garden experiments.) I hope she’s OK, too.
Beautiful photo! How do you plan to preserve the citrus? What’s the plant at the 12 o’clock position? I’m lusting after your eggplants.
I’ve sliced up some of the banana peppers, seeds and all; put them in the dehydrator and dried them to go in soups and stews this winter. Froze some of them whole; also fixed a few in vinegar. I have to use as many shortcuts as possible, because I’m not really able to do a lot of canning and pickling now.
Now we remove the 2 year old plants and renovate the area for the new Garlic crop going in soon…
This bed is 12' X 12' and produced almost 15 gallons of berries this year alone.
These tomatoes, in the main "stacker" hydroponic system, are about two weeks older. 
Each of those square pots sits at a 45 degree offset from the pots above and below, so each level has four exposed corners you can grow stuff in. Nutrient rich water is pumped into the top pot three times per day, and filters down through the growing medium and then through the holes in the bottom of each pot.
Cabbage is one of the things I tried last winter and didn't have much luck with.
My winter tomatoes will go until the cold gets them, or more likely until it is time to plant new ones in the spring (Feb). Last "winter" was really mild and I brought them inside a couple times, though I probably didn't really need to.
Wow! I’d love to try hydroponics.
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