[JustaDumbBlonde]

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[afraidfortherepublic]

Keywords! Brilliant! Proving again that Justadumbblonde is not only an accomplished gardener, she is one of the smartest people on FreeRepublic!

[Eric in the Ozarks]

This will be the first time we've grown paprika peppers. The seeds were not commonly available and the first supplier cashed my check and then reneged.

My plan is to dry the peppers and grind them into powder. I have a pint jar of jalapeno pepper powder I made about three years ago. A little goes a long way.

[Darth Reardon]

To make the search process more efficient, folks adding keywords should also remember to include alternative names. For example, black-eyed peas are also referred to as cowpeas, and there are probably a few ways to spell blackeyed. Or when discussing squirrels, you should also add keywords tree rat and #^&*%#^$@^&!.

[KosmicKitty]

Any suggestions to keep raccoons out of corn. I put in about 18 corn plants a few weeks ago and just as they were really starting to take off, something has been going in there at night, pulling them up and shredding the root end.

For now, I’ve got them covered with some light plant cover fabric that I used with my early crops. Plan on keeping hem covered just long enough to discourage what ever is going after them. I have a low fence around the garden (raised bed made of cinderblocks), but it isn’t stopping this critter.

I’m pretty sure it’s a raccoon cause we’re caught pictures of a raccoon other years with my husband’s game camera. I’m in the ‘burbs of southern Connecticut, FWIW

[Sarajevo]

Plants in the hoophouse are growing like crazy. I "thought" that I had planted with adequate distance between the plants this spring - boy, was I wrong!

We've been harvesting betwwen a peck and a bushel of cucumber, zuchhini, beans, yellow squash, acorn squash, tabasco, thai pepper, corn, and green peppers every other day. Mrs.S has canned around 20 quarts worth so far, and the tomato's are still green.

Mrs S and the Black Krim tomato plant. It was 6 inches tall 4 weeks ago. Now, it's trying to grow through the top of the hoophouse. That is a single plant!