I started some new pepper plants from seed for the fall garden, but they are going slow, too.
/johnny
I gave my neighbor a two year old Century plant. I have a nice one on the porch (Hungarian princess vintage) as well as a Blue Agave plant, they do surprising well in Ohio.
I have one Gypsy Pepper plant, and it is my favorite variety. It is still blooming and setting peppers, and they are very great tasting peppers, large, sweet, and thick skinned, and very prolific. I highly recommend it for Central TX. I will have more when and if I can find them.
Also have a couple of “Yummy” plants, peppers are good, but don’t compare to Gypsy.
We were in Montana this past week. Wow those people that grow cherries are serious about their crops. Gun drown for a poacher stealing their crop.
Wonderful State to see, we enjoyed every minute of it.
I have mucho nachos, and Gypsy. The Gypsy Pepper plants have done pretty well. In fact, I skipped picking some this morning as I was being lazy.
Not enjoying the Texas heat. We did get some rain about a week and a half ago. I thought my rain barrel was going to overflow, so flipped a plastic kiddie pool over to catch the excess..I thought moths were flying out from it..so I was shooshing them away, then realized they were yellowjackets. Oops, so lucky, they don't sting me, even when they should for chasing them from their nest.
Tomatoes seem to be getting their second wind, Cucuzzi, and trombettas don't seem phased by the heat. Armenian Cukes have tons of blossoms, but no cukes. I put tomato tone on everything yesterday, and have been injecting the tromboncino vines with BTK. I also planted some tycoons, and lemon boys for fall. I also finished digging up my potatoes. The last ones were the red, white, and blue ones..althoygh the blue looks more purple to me.
Peppers were the only thing we harvested this year. Critters got every single mater. But they didn’t like hot peppers. Had some cayennes, chilitepins, jalapenos, banana,and some unknown pepper. It was labeled Jalapeno, but was not. It grew longer and had 0 heat, and no flavor, so I threw some in a jar that I was making Pepper sauce just to bulk up the jar a little for looks. I am cutting these off tomorrow, and transplanting the rest of the peppers into containers and going to clear the garden of all these useless plants, leaving a patch of nothing but mater stakes.
I have a lot of peppers; jalapeno, habanero, tabasco, Thai, Orange Thai, Trinidad Scorpion, and a Bhut Johlokia (Thanks rightly_dividing!)
I pulled all of my tomato plants early this month and have planted new ones, primarily Black Krim and Beefsteak, for the second crop. They all seem to have grown real fast, had a flush of fruit, then dried up.
Cukes and melons are coming along fine, but not as well as last year.
Severe lower back pains have been keeping me out of the garden more than I like. I have an MRI scheduled for tomorrow. Hopefully, I'll have a diagnosis and definitive treatment soon.