Posted on 08/09/2013 3:12:55 PM PDT by greeneyes
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“I need some help with my Ghost Peppers. They are not doing well.”
It’s because they are ghosts - all that disappearing and coming back is sapping their strength. You are welcome to this sage advice from me.
Exactly! :)
I’ve had double squash before but never connected together.
That’s cool.
Our first "red/pink" (heirloom) Brandywine (about to be enjoyed by our son) was gathered last week. Our daughter partook (of our second Brandywine yesterday) stating it was the best tomato she had ever eaten, smooth and with a sweet aftertaste. As a tip for those only getting a few fruits off of this variety (as per someone's tip online), I placed mushroom compost under the plants and shook them (to move the pollen around) three to four times a day, and after about 7-10 days, all these baby maters started to appear. :) Life is good! Also, for an added taste sensation, we slice most all our veggies on a Himalayan salt slab leaving them on the block for a couple of minutes before indulging. Very yummy!
LOL. Don King that’s a hoot for a bird’s name. I just got discharged from PT 3xweekly a few weeks ago. Up until the last 2 weeks, I have done pretty well with the follow up home excercise, but not doing so good for a couple of weeks now.
Strength and stamina is still not back to baseline, but so much better, I continually overschedule and repent in exhaustion.LOL
Oh wow. Now that’s pretty.
Is that some sort of fruit tree with the little red thingies on it?
FYI It is August 9. My brain transposed what I was thinking between the brain and fingers.LOL
It is a “Dalgo Flowering Crab” as I have been told.
Tim overdoes it and then pays for it, it’s been a real roller coaster. Glad to hear you are doing better.
I wanted to re-pot, but not wanting to gamble with peppers already growing, wasn’t sure if it would be their demise. I rarely have to deal with plant diseases or problems, so I dont have stuff the check nutrient levels. Normally, we just move on after a plant fails and replace it with something else, but I want some really hot peppers. Under normal condition, it is either too much or too little sun that is our problem. We water everything at the ground, never above on the leaves.
Looks like it’s making little crabapples.
I like the particular colors she’s included in that. The pinks compliment each other nicely.
We haven’t harvested peanuts or potatoes yet. I have a few fall tomatoes started and a bunch of peppers. Hubby has lots of indeterminates, so they should continue, if he continues to pick them as soon as they get a little blush.
My only other suggestion is to go to:
www.tomatoville.com
and see if they have any idea. There’s a whole pepper forum over there IIRC.
My grandaughter only likes the flat beans, so I alway grow Romas. They have all done well for me too. Very trouble free.
I got a peach! One whole peach. But I am happy to have deprived the woodland wildlife of that, let me tell you. It was a wonderful peach, fragrant, juicy, sweet.
The tree had been LOADED this year, second year of producing really. I was unable to save any fruit last year, so this year I experimented with using tulle as netting, and clothespins to hold it in place, protecting select fruit on a handful of branches. Didn’t work.
But one day last week I found one decent sized peach that seemed close to being ripe-so I picked that peach. There were about a dozen smaller ones left still. Next day there was not a single peach on that tree or on the ground beneath. I carefully ripened that one peach, and today .... I ate it.
Bwahahahaha!
Some things only come out after dark. Sometimes I go check on stuff at midnight. My sunflowers looked like the leaves were had some sort of bad spots developing, but I couldn’t see any thing.
The next thing was a few looked like cut worms got to them. After the hot and dryer weather got here, I checked the garden at midnight and found slugs.
The new stuff is doing great, but it’s so late I doubt that I’ll get any flowers or seeds this year. I’ll know next year though.
Johnny’s grown more peppers than I have ever even seen, so maybe he’ll know what’s up.
I bought a package of mixed heirloom seeds. I've been watching these tomatoes, but they didn't seem to be getting ripe. Well, it finally dawned on me that maybe they were meant to be green. Sure enough, they're green sausage tomatoes!!
Can't wait to try one. My Black Russians were spectacular!!
Finally - will used kitty litter - the non clumping kind - keep rabbits out of the garden if I spread it around the edges? I've got one little bunny thoroughly enjoying my bush beans and I;d like Mr BunBun to move on to some one else's yard.
We have gotten more rain in the past two months than we normally get during the entirety of our wet season , almost what we get during an entire year .
I normally start my fall tomatoes and peppers this time of year in sunken beds to catch water . The beds are now flooded with standing water and are full of tadpoles. (wish I had planted rice in them lol )
I have a bunch of 55 gallon barrels that were given to me so I think the tomatoes and peppers are going in them for now .
Seeing all this rain it is just hard to fathom that some areas of the country are still very dry.
You can have some of ours.
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