Posted on 04/14/2025 6:16:54 AM PDT by Red Badger
Ping!.........................
I’m going to start my heirloom tomato seeds today. I’m a little behind for Zone 5.
Clothed or Nekkid? There are TWO ‘Gardening Days,’ ya know! ;)
Kinda chilly today!....................51°!
Just like last year, I will be attempting to grow tomatoes, squash and bell peppers. This year, I’m going to also include a few flowering plants to attract bees. I need the bees to stop by and pollinate the vegetable blossoms.
I’ve tried spreading the pollen on my own in those big yellow flowers of the spaghetti squash, but the results, if any were somewhat underwhelming. This year will be different.
Plant a Garden
by Edgar Guest
“If your purse no longer bulges
and you’ve lost your golden treasure,
If times you think you’re lonely
and have hungry grown for pleasure,
Don’t sit by your hearth and grumble,
don’t let mind and spirit harden.
If it’s thrills of joy you wish for
get to work and plant a garden!
If it’s drama that you sigh for,
plant a garden and you’ll get it
You will know the thrill of battle
fighting foes that will beset it.
If you long for entertainment and
for pageantry most glowing,
Plant a garden and this Summer spend
your time with green things growing.”
I need to get a couple sprouted onions and the mint back outside but that might be all. The possums got to everything the past couple years.
Sooo, I'm still a few weeks away from preppin' the gardens.
I sure do miss global warming....
Just picked up a four pack of habanero pepper plants this morning. Sowed 130 seeds into trays yesterday. I’m a month behind as usual. Need to get the beds ready over the next few days and finish the high tunnel over the next few months.
I grow jalapenos every year............
It's April so everything is in bloom right now in So Cal - including everyone's allergies!
From my garden for gardening day: Rose: Gingersnap:
Honeysuckle: Flamethrower
Wisteria:
I want to keep America beautiful.
So I keep my clothes on. :)
Besides it is still a bit brisk out.
Ingredients: Red Habanero Peppers, Vinegar, Carrots, Onion, Salt, Garlic and Vegetable Gum(or some kind of thickener)
Seems easy enough to come close to and no stores near me carry it so with shipping, it gets a little pricey, especially since my son, with his autistic flavor buds, uses it like ketchup. Carrots, vinegar, onion, salt, garlic are cheap enough and growing my own habanero peppers makes them cheap and more importantly, available. I think I've seen them in the store once. Not much for food selection here in rural flyover country.
Yeah, I’ll be 65 this summer. Nobody needs to see me nekkid anymore, LOL!
This recipes looks pretty darn close to the ‘Yucatan Sunshine’ sauce. Don’t hurt yourself making it!
https://grillgirl.com/2011/12/kick-ass-habanero-hot-sauce-recipe/#recipe
Yeah, a whiff of simmering vinegar is bad enough without hot peppers added.
Habanero Peppers are the prettiest plant. I’ve only grown them once; I just wanted to see how they grew so I could answer questions about them from my Customers. ;)
I planted ONE plant, and ended up with an entire paper grocery sack of pretty orange, flying-saucer-shaped peppers. We took them to a local Mexican Restaurant and they were very happy to use them.
I like Franks Hot Sauce...but just a little. Jalapeno peppers that I grow (Bonnie Brand-Walmart) end up as, ‘Poppers’ or pickled in, ‘Cowboy Candy.’ We love both of those. :)
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