Any Lawn and Garden Folks Out There? (vanity/help)

[Silentgypsy]

You are a bottomless pit of helpfulness as well as imagination and a screwy way of looking at things.

[bigheadfred]

Well, just soes you know, I thought about it. I practiced and thought. I drew diagrams. Then I went in and practiced and thought in front of the mirror.

Then I sat down, giving it my mostest bestest effort, and wrote it all down.

To spell it back to you would violate all the rules of decency of God and man.

Not to mention FR.

[tubebender]

Has the jury deliberated and come back with a verdict on the weed that has us mystified and spellbound???

[Daffynition]

Conceptually, I think you have a good idea and are on to sumptin'.

What I don't know.

[handmade]

Sometimes it depends on the timing. Crab grass in the spring, yes. Waiting t then. Other things are selective. Yellow nutsedge- hit it with Sedgehammer before the summer solstice- yes. After that, no.

I think weeds are there to test our mettle- can we tolerate a few here and there? Can we persist and get rid of those that have to go? Sometimes one just takes the approach they are at least green. and require little water.

Then there are those I rejoice over, when they actually do get dry enough they die.

[painter]

My Big RED HEB Peppers are an unknown variety I purchased in our grocery store. I just picked the biggest, reddest one in the bin and planted the seeds.

We talked about this last spring and I did the same thing. This is the first time I have been able to pick bell peppers. All the nursery plants that I have planted in the past have been duds. The seeds from store bought bell peppers have produced a plant that gives me good peppers.

How did yours do?

[Racehorse]

Up until the temperature started hanging around 100 degrees they did much better than the nursery plants. Large, blocky, with thick walls and very tasty. The nursery plants produced strong plants but small peppers.

I’m nursing them through the drought in hopes they will revive and start producing again with cooler temperatures. That’ll be at least six weeks.

Good to read you’ve enjoyed equally good results. I’ll do it again next spring. I have two varieties I’ve started indoors I want to try for the Fall: Big Early Hybrid and Chinese Giant.