I also grew a Habanero Pepper plant and did not know what to do with them.
Posted on 07/06/2012 10:51:22 AM PDT by Ellendra
It's Friday once again, and our regular gardening threadmasters still seem to be MIA. If anyone has the gardening ping list, or if anyone can get hold of JADB and have her send it to me, it would be much appreciated. In the mean time, I'm going to try and rebuild the list. That's going take a while.
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My garden is surviving (barely) because I am still ‘fit’ enough to afford to water. Which I have spent an inordinate amount of time doing as I am smack dab in the middle of the ‘ring of fire’ over the vast fly over ‘midwest’. I have notice a clear vacancy of US in the flyover midwest whining and moaning about our drought!!!!!!
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My husband passed away two years ago this past week, he was our gardener and I hardly know what I'm doing but my snap peas, cucumbers and tomatoes all seem to be doing pretty well, but my green beans are sparse and still really small. Maybe I bought expired seeds?? Giving it some good effort and trying to do my hubby proud, it feels really good and I know he's smiling down on me!
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No help on positives for the heat.
Thanks for the zucchini info, I will have to try it next year or can I plant it this year still I am in Indiana near Indy.
My pepper plants are in hot chile heaven! I’m growing Ghost peppers, Tabascos, Habaneros, Datils and Jalapenos. They are exploding with fruits. Even our tomatoes, which we grow in pots (we grow everything in pots since our space is limited) are giving us the best harvest we’ve ever had. I did manage to kill off a mortgage lifter but an autopsy showed that death was due to drowning. We put the pot in a tray that was too small so it blocked the drain holes and didn’t allow water to escape. We looked at the withering leaves and assumed it was from the 104 degree temps, adding more water to an already overwatered plant. When I pulled out the plant to reuse the pot I saw nothing but mud. Now we are using that pot for a transplanted Ghost Pepper plant. We will have a record harvest and the combination of blistering heat and good soakings will turn the fruits into little fireballs.
I read a post in last week’s gardening thread about starving Jalapenos to make them hotter. While I agree that overwatering them will make them milder they are still, after all, Jalapenos and their DNA will only make them so hot. Even if they wer 10x hotter than normal you still wouldn’t begin to come close to the power of even a Tabasco. For those of you who don’t eat a lot of hot stuff a strong Jalapeno may seem like a firestarter but the burst of heat is brief. Chew on a Ghost Pepper and you get an immediate burst of heat like a Jalapeno. The difference is that 15 minutes later it’s not only just as hot, it’s getting hotter, and it could be 45 minutes before the heat wears off.
Our one big failure so far is Missouri Wild Peas, which were sent to us by a generous FReeper. I’ve tried to germinate them in hot weather, in the shade, indoors, in soil and on moistened cotton balls. So far not one has germinated. Still have a few pods left to try.
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Got some much needed precipitation yesterday afternoon. It was a huge hail storm. The hail was so deep in places it has not all melted yet.
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I grow a small survival garden in Las Vegas. It is productive with tomatoes, zuchini, peppers, melons. Cucumbers grow like crazy. But a lot of things can’t handle te heat and getting the watering right is a bear (easy to over water with poor drainage).
I put together a prepper gardening book called Going Galt: Survival Gardening, that is my own reference. It covers everything I could think of, I used to work for the Cooperative Extension and have a lot of sources. http://www.futurnamics.com/garden.php
Thanks for the ping Ellendra.
The bunnies demolished most of our sugar snap peas and our green beans. After trying again, and losing those as well, we finally put up a rabbit fence. I think we’ve thwarted the bunnies - for now - since our most recent plantings are doing well. Our tomatoes are all doing really well this year, so far. We haven’t harvested any yet, but hope to soon. I have garlic drying on the porch and we’ve got new potatoes and will be harvesting zucchini. I decided to try brussels sprouts again. We had a good rain several days ago. Temps are upper 90’s right now though. We’ll be hauling water again.
Added you back in. I’m sorry to hear about your husband :(
Green beans usually start out sparse, it’s the picking that triggers them to produce more. Glad to hear the rest of your garden is going well.
It is too hot here also so have to do much more watering than normal. My flowers and herbs are hanging in there, however.
I guess that's what's up with my tomatoes here in central Illinois, multiple days with temps in the triple digits. I haven't seen ripe tomato #1 yet except for a few ripe cherry tomatoes. I saw one lone butter fly in my garden yesterday and he had a canteen strapped to his little waist.
Lots and lots of blooms though.
Thank you to both of you....
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Afraidfortherepublic has a list on home page iirc.
Well, this area is in a drought, and this week we are in a record setting string of triple digit temps with NO rain. I have hand watered my raised beds with about 1" of water once a week and the veggies are doing great. No signs of wilting or brownouts. These darn things really do hold the water in the soil where the plants can access it.
I also grew a Habanero Pepper plant and did not know what to do with them.
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