Posted on 01/23/2015 12:30:55 PM PST by greeneyes
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Let me know how they are. I like hot, but not insane :-)
We had snow this morning in the TX Hill Country.
I’ve had a small veggie garden in my backyard for 23 yrs. (No. Cal) And now I am getting raised beds!! I’m so excited!!
Hi greeneyes, and everyone! Just checking in. The weather here today was gorgeous. I went for my walk, and am finally starting to get the kinks out of my back from the recent nosedive to the marble in my fall at the courthouse. Started some yoga classes which I think are truly helping.
Not really feeling up to doing garden chores right now, but do plan to read and study and learn stuff!
Darlin and I just put in another faucet on the other side of the house so I don’t have to haul water by hand! That will help a lot!
Hi Everybody!
(((((HUGS)))))
A beautiful day here too! I tended my little patch at the bottom of the stairs. :-)
Me neither.
It might be known that at least one of our Freeper Gardeners grew sone of the hot peppers for their own use and offered seeds to other Freepers.
These offered seeds (3 varieties) included : 7 pot Douglah, Trinada Scorpion longtail, and Datil.
I intend to use the above varieties to see if they are an effective pesticide for thrips, and other leaf eating pests (including humans) with gloves and safety glasses
as these are potentially harmful doses of capiscum.
Apparently the Carolina Reeper sufferred from a premature frost, and was somewhat of a crop failure.
This brings me to another point : would other Freeper Gardeners consider a possible seed exchange.
Sorry, my service provider went down this afternoon, and we just got the service back.
Eric, Since it was exactly a year ago, it sounds like it’s time to start a new batch.
Hot peppers will put a ' hitch in your get-along', and keep you sparking !
Wow. Is that unusual?
Hooray for you. I love the raised beds. Every year, I talk Hubby into adding another layer of landscape timbers to some of the beds, and another 3 inches of soil. Hoping to get them about 12 inches, so that I can sit on the edge and take the pressure off the old back.LOL
Sorry , I failed to mention that “hotness” of chilies are measured in ‘Scoville units’.
Glad you are on the mend. Yes it helps a lot when you don’t have to tote water. Hubby fixed up a splitter and attached a hose for me to use from the swimming pool rainwater.
It worked great and made watering more fun and less trouble.
Thanks for the update.
Do not use creosote timber for your garden.
Saw the ping late. I’ve got tomato plants about a foot tall in the green house and am starting to plant many of the others like peppers, celery, cabbage, etc. in flats. Planting time is here!!!
I’m going to plant some to turn into powder and spread around the corn stalks and on the corn silks and tips of the husks. I’m thinking of spreading some around the area where the vegetables are
planted to keep away the critters and bugs who think the plants were put there for them. It worked last season when I spread chili powder on and around them. I’m going to shake some chili powder on the fire and hills to see what happens. I’m also spreading dried molasses where fire and hills are appearing.
Think it would work for woodchucks?
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