Posted on 06/01/2012 8:06:36 AM PDT by JustaDumbBlonde
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Keywords! Brilliant! Proving again that Justadumbblonde is not only an accomplished gardener, she is one of the smartest people on FreeRepublic!
My plan is to dry the peppers and grind them into powder. I have a pint jar of jalapeno pepper powder I made about three years ago. A little goes a long way.
I have plenty of extra Ghost Chile pepper seeds if anyone needs some. My project for this year is Datil peppers. So far I’ve managed to get 3 seedlings going and my largest plant is a little over an inch tall. But that’s how I started with my Ghost Chiles and this year I will be harvesting them by the dozens and expect to easily have over a hundred by the end of the summer.
Good morning!
We got a good, all day rain on Wednesday, no downpour, just steady.
What’s in store for tonight is an entirely different story. Looks like torrential downpours overnight into early morning which does not bode well for having to get small person over to school by 4:30 tomorrow morning. The middle school Chorus is in a competition tomorrow - but they face a 4 hour drive to get there.
I planted cabbage this year. Never did before. Something is eating at them, and I see a lot of white moths hanging around. Any suggestions?
I have some shrubs in front of my house that if they were cut back to a sane size would just result in a bunch of bare wooden sticks waiting to impale the ups guy so I cut it down to a nub. At least I don’t have to look at the overgrowth, but this isn’t good either. I have 4 of these. I don’t think I can dig out 25 years of roots so how do I kill off the top so I can plant something else? These bushes are near other plants and I don’t want to kill them. Any help would be appreciated. I’m not good at this...you folks are, (Imagine a heart here)
To make the search process more efficient, folks adding keywords should also remember to include alternative names. For example, black-eyed peas are also referred to as cowpeas, and there are probably a few ways to spell blackeyed. Or when discussing squirrels, you should also add keywords tree rat and #^&*%#^$@^&!.
One more question if I may... I’m expecting a good crop of Roma tomatoes... can I slice them and put them in the dehydrator and end up with something similar to sun-dried? I love sun-dried tomatoes but they are so expensive.
Those white moths are laying eggs on your cabbage and the worms from the eggs are eating your cabbage.
Thanks much.
I like the keyword idea. Excellent!
The past two days we have received .75 inches of rain. It was needed. My tomatoes are doing fine. This afternoon I will be posting my first Monthly Homebrewing Thread. Wish me luck.
Here in Michigan weather is in play again. Low temps in the 40s over the next several days... Poor tomatos..just sit there! At least we are getting some rain!
Mike
I’ve been picking tomatoes, peppers and cucumbers this week. My neighbor pulled his onion crop and dug his potatoes this past week. He gave us some of the smaller red ones and my wife loved them cooked with butter.
Something is killing off our yellow squash. The leaves are dying and the squash are shrivleing up. I can't find any bugs on them.
Peppers are growing like gangbusters.
Tomatos are nearly ripe, the grape tomatos are ripening.
If the stumps are big, it may require a stump grinder. Do you have any friends in the landscaping business?
i wouldn’t say the stumps were big enough for a stump grinder. maybe after all this rain the next few days I could dig them out. Thanks for your help.
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