Posted on 10/18/2013 1:07:54 PM PDT by greeneyes
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As of this morning, they were blooming again.
I have never seen this happen before. I'll be keeping an eye on them to see what they do.
/johnny
“I left my jalapeno and New Mexico chili pepper plants in the garden. They looked mostly dead after the summer heat. As of this morning, they were blooming again. I’ll be keeping an eye on them to see what they do.”
Be sure one of your handguns is loaded - what you have are ZOMBIE plants - they died and came back as ZOMBIES!
Pulled a few beets and carrots yesterday and added them to a beef stew that Mrs. Augie was putting together. Yummy.
Woke up this morning to frost on the ground. The tomatoes have been hanging in there pretty good but I’m afraid that will be it for them.
I didn’t try to grow any kind of pepper seed for this fall garden. I do have seed envelopes of the ones I will grow in the spring. I’ll also buy a live container pepper and I don’t remember what it is, saved it in my favorites, but it isn’t a hot one. The only hot seeds one and it isn’t that hot, is the Pepperoncini seed.
Watch out for those Zombie plants.
It will be interesting to see what happens. I had such a crappy year with jalpenos this year that even a few would be appreciated.
/johnny
I have read the envelopes that came with all this pepper seed and it seems to take forever to get the seed to sprout and the plant ready to go outside. All the envelopes say it takes 8-10 weeks before they can be outside.
Is that the way it is for the ones you plant?
I am not suprised. Last year, during the extreme drought and heat, we decided to let the garden burn up, and hauled water for the fruit trees.
I went out dug up 2 almost dead pepper plants and put them in pots. Those darn things bloomed and produced all summer, fall, winter, and this year spring and summer.
So just to see how they do, I dug them up again last week, and have been bringing them in and out depending on the weather. They are blooming and forming little pepper plants right now.
Since my pots are pretty small, I expect that they’ll have smaller peppers than they did outdoors, and that it will take longer to grow them inside this winter, but they did so great last winter, that I decided to dig up several of the other pepper plants too.
Yep, they don’t do well with frost. I chopped off all the branches that had flowers, and stuck them in water to form roots. Dug up two smaller plants and stuck them in pots.
Picked all the remaining green tomatoes to let ripen. There weren’t many. I covered up a few things with plastic, will try to finish the job by tomorrow night. It’s supposed to get to 27 degrees here.
I hate the cold, but the good news is that if we get that cold weather, I can plant the winter wheat.LOL
I just ordered something that saves my body outside and I don't know why I didn't think of it before. I accidentally found it - a folding device that makes a “padded kneeler” so I don't kill my knees when I have to bend, just use the bars on both sides of this thing to lower myself and use the bars to help me stand up again. Darn, so simple. And, one can quickly fold it to be a seat if I need to sit down.
I also can't get on my knees in the house, but this folding thingy will allow me to work at that level without killing my knees and allow me to stand up with the help of those bars. Walmart, $28.53. This thing is worth many times that for me to be able to get down and up. My knees are small and the right one has already had surgery to clean it out as I was on a cane with bad pain from that knee before the surgery.
I actually found this thing by putting knee pads in search to try to find something to help my knees when I had to be close to the floor - I had a problem with that with the grow lamp and seeds. I put a small stool in front of them and getting down on the stool and getting back up wasn't easy as there was nothing to hold on to. Wouldn't have been a problem with this new thingy.
/johnny
I have a couple of foam kneel boards, but I never kneel for anything. Knees protest and groan and gripe for hours afterwards.LOL
My main garden patches next to the patio are behind a retaining wall. So I just stand and tend to the garden from that side, or sit on the retaining wall. The other beds, I have a light weight 4 gallon pot that I use. A couple of the beds have a bunch big round logs that are just the right height for sitting.
Tell me that again when you are 25 years older like I am.
We have freeze warnings all around us tonight. For some reason, it doesn’t show that way on the 5day forecast till tomorrow night though.
How about you? Are you in the freeze zone tonight?
Since my lower back is the pits, if I need to do something low outside, it’s much better that I sit or kneel. Inside is the worst for kneeling since I have a wood floor and my knees can’t take that at all, not even once. I’ll be keeping this thing inside to use and taking it outside when I go out there. Dealing with the grow lamp on the floor will be much easier with this seat/kneeler.
/johnny
Don’t go down stairs after having too much beer.
Yep, sounds good for you. I’m just glad that both my grow lights are on a table, so I don’t have to kneel or bend. Likewise most of the patio garden, I can just stand and reach over the waist high part of the retaining wall.
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