I did a little research and it seems that purple beauty peppers are very good in salsa.
They really are beautiful peppers:
I've never grown pimentos, but as they mature they should turn red. They should be sweeter at that point, too.
Posted on 07/19/2013 12:45:12 PM PDT by greeneyes
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Heck no. We got some sprinkles, but that's it. Everything seems to avoid the Hill Country.
I did a little research and it seems that purple beauty peppers are very good in salsa.
They really are beautiful peppers:
I've never grown pimentos, but as they mature they should turn red. They should be sweeter at that point, too.
Lol! I was wondering! Canned vegetable items, even those preserved with acids such as vinegar, are not permitted for sale. I can sell jams, jellies, and homemade and home baked goods (i.e. bread, cupcakes, fudge), but not homemade and canned hot pepper butter (ground hot peppers, sugar, vinegar, water, mustard, flour, salt) and hot pepper relish (ground hot peppers, sugar, vinegar). I can sell salsa ingredients, but if I chop them up and mix them together I’m in violation of the health code. Silly isn’t it? They’re from the government and they’re here to help!
My melons are finally taking off. At least half are around 60 DTM, so I am hoping that there is plenty of time for them to mature.
Our local save a lot has had some really great round watermelons available, so we have been buying a couple every week. If I hit a lull in the cukes and beans, I am thinking about making some pickled watermelon rind. The nutritional value of the rind is really good.
All hubby’s melons died - spring was too cold. I planted my seeds indoors and waited till the weather was reliably warm before transplanting - that actually gives me growth that is behind where I would have expected in a normal season, but it is better than if I waited to plant them till the weather got warm enough to plant outdoors.
What a lovely garden! I’m sorry about your squash. :(
Hope you get what you need to get a good harvest and fill up the reservoirs.
NO it’s always the food safety excuse around here. Well, I know who I would trust to can food, and who I wouldn’t, and I don’t need some government dude or dudette telling me buyer beware.
I can beware all on my own.
Butternuts are (mostly) immune to SVB’s. Especially if started early enough to really get a good ‘running start’ prior to the emergence of the SVB’s.
They do take much more room than ordinary yellow squash and zucchinis though. You can trellis them but they lose part of the resistance if you do that because they can’t put down roots at each leaf node along the running vine part.
If you’ve got someplace to let them run (mine run in my yard and I just weedeat ahead of them to give them an easier time of it) and depending on the length of your growing season you might try regular old waltham butternut or seminole pumpkin. My squash and zucchini plants are always SVB magnets. When they get afflicted I pull them up and burn them and replant.
YMMV.
I grow 500-700+lbs of winter squashes every summer. Organically for the last couple years. C. Moschata (the family that butternut is in) is the one that’s ‘resistant’ to SVB’s. If you go to the rareseeds site (baker creek) they will list the variety in the description of the various winter squashes.
If you want a c. moschata type ‘summer/zucchini’ squash try ‘tromboncino’(sp). You can eat those like summer squash or zucchini when they’re young and when allowed to mature they’ll keep long term (several months) just like regular winter squash.
Lovely little garden patch, BTW. Ants took over my geraniums this year and I eventually gave up. There’s something about those particular containers and ants.
Oh gee whiz that is painful to even think about. That’s almost 2 feet. You might be better off with conainer gardening.
I recently read what looks like a good idea in a magazine. Before your strawberries ripen and turn red, paint some strawberry-sized ROCKS “strawberry red”. Birds are supposed to peck on the hard-rock “strawberries” and go away mad and not come back any time soon. Saw this in “Living the Country Life” magazine. Gonna try it. - We put some beer in the red plastic lids that KFC puts out in their chicken meals. Just the right size and height to put around the strawberries. Slugs had a beer party.
You are welcome.
Thanks. We need a good fall harvest.
Leaves that yellow at the bottom are a common issue here. We pull them all off and destroy them, since soil borne problems are not unusual.
Sometimes yellow leaves mean a shortage of nitrogen, or one of the trace elements/minerals.
There’s just so many things it could be, it’s hard to pin down. I usually check for aphids and bugs first. Then I pull off the yellow leaves and give it a good dose of fertilizer, and watch to see if it recovers.
If hubby has to use an insecticide, he uses one that is dispersed by morning, so that it won’t hurt the bees, and he won’t use it on anything once blooms are all around. I just stick to pepper/onion/garlic mix.
We bought some regular trash cans once to use in a pinch, and lots of 5 gallon buckets, which are a nice size to use. When they are full, we can put the lid on and stack them up, and put out others to catch the new rainfall.
Our plan is to set up a swimming pool and collect runoff from the roof. Use mosquito dunks and cover the pool. We should be able to adjust the filter to back hose setting and pump water to the garden with some adjustments.
We’d really like a cistern, but that’s pretty expensive, so the pool is a good step for now. It’ll hold 4000 gallons.
/johnny
Birds are a big help keeping incsects and bugs under control. Werns in particular perfer bugs to plants, and they are territorial, so will chase other birds away from your berries etc.
So sorry to hear it. You may have to garden like the desert southwest.
/johnny
Beer works every time!
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