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that's why I took the pics of the peppers I was taking his pics and thought might as welll get some of the peppers.

looks like he may have been a fight at some time

A little visitor yesterday when I got home.

I did spread them out more this year so that may be why they grew taller I don't know. Petee when the deer used to come and eat the tops of my plants off they did grow a lot also. If they hadn't been greedy and started eating the whole plant I might not have put a fence up. I would pinch them off and thought about it this year but then said what the heck just let them grow. That's what I do too. Other than water them occasionally not as much as they should have been and maybe thats why the plants grew so tall all the heat and not alot of water so the plants grew but the peppers waited for the rain haha either way I have lots . I really need to focus on planting more non hot peppers though. They did well also as you can see. My wife made stuffed peppers the other day and froze a lot for later consumption. I scaled back this year and only planted between 50 and 75 I can't remember the one year I planted 144 pepper plants because I miscounted and was in heaven throwing the flats on the cart

a little bit of celery growing.

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Thought the board could use something besides politics

another bumper crop of peppers including Ghost peppers. seems my most productive plants are always the hot peppers. I had a few plants with over 30 on each plant and lots of buds for more. They were also tall. At least 42" tall for a lot of them and the taller ones broke from the weight and fell over.

making new discoveries frequently, huh. I discovered he doesn't exist at least not in our neck of the woods. Shhhhhhh. I hear something in those bushes.

ok number 3 says "before placing on high heat on the stovetop so the water evaporates" I would not do ths. It can warp your cast iron skillet. I am not saying it will but it can especially if you leave it on high heat after the waer evaporates. Just wipe it out with a paper towel I have cooked on high heat but i always warmed it up and had food in it before cranking to high heat. I have warped a skillet doing the drying method they said.

Because there will be no one around for day two after they are hauled off to jail for indecent exposure LOL

I will get a greenhouse some day

Yea I tried that last year and I just didn't water them enough and dont have anyplace where they can get the sunlight they need. I think I would really like a nice greenhouse where I could see if I could keep them going all year. I will have to look for a really good used one someday or just build one.

My dogs were relegated to the upstairs and kitchen area for about a week and a half. Yesterday they finally were allowed in the living room and they seem to enjoy it. Of course they follow me to whatever room I am in. Oh and yes the outlet covers will be put back on just havent gotten around to it yet. While I hate snow they need to go out and run a bit but I wont let them they would be muddy messes if I did now. They really havent had a chance to enjoy this winter but I have because I dont like the snow. I suppose once I retire and dont have to drive in it I wont mind it as much I really need some green so I can start taking pics of the garden or whatever. You know I am bored when i start taking pics of the dogs LOL come on spring daddy needs a new pepper plant LOL .

wow your corn is done already. we planted late around the second week of June. we got quite a few peppers and my wife picked some beans when she got the potato's

Here are some potato's that we pulled up so far. They started on their own in the garden and we just left them grow. There must have been a few from last years garden still in the ground. Probably about 3 to 5 pound there are a few big ones. Probably should have waited to pull them later but we wanted to see if we had any and wanted some to cook up here this week. If we were going to keep them we would have put them in the basement where the temp is just right to harden the skin. A few are purple potato's also. I am kind of anxious to see how the bin has been doing.

we never have any luck with onions. I may need some pointers for next year. My peppers are the same steelnut very small plants but they are yielding peppers. Nothing like the previous years where I have huge plants and got arywhere from 10 to 15 plants on each plant over the season. Now it is still early so they may perk up. well junk the gate to the garden is unlocked. Anyone else hany pics. Rank63 any pics on your end. especially those potato's. We will have to see if it worked. I am thinking my yield wont be to big condidering I let threm grow to big before sadding dirt. but they spurted up so fast it was hard to keep up with.

well found the post where I said about the potato bin but the pic was gone. I do believe I let mine grow to tall before adding more dirt and this stunts the root growth and they become stems instead so Hopefully I can get 25 pounds of potatos out of it and not the hundred or so I was hoping or maybe there will not be any or only a couple handfuls. Either way it was fun doing it. I did find the instructions again on the web.

well after reading this thread again My apple tree this year still has nothing on it I may have to have cut it back like dogg did and see but no worries because I did find that small farm I was looking for and it just happens to have lots of apple and pear trees on it.

I have never had tomatoes ripe this early. Heck usually it isn't till late August /September before we do. The peppers usually are out way before the tomato's are. I am hoping my tomato's don't all ripen up before I get my peppers. I love my wife's spaghetti sauce especially when she uses the hot peppers in it.

I couldn't find the thread but I did see where a member Bub likes to grow potatos from back in 2009. Maybe he/she I am guessing he can give us some pointers.

I just put newspaper down and cover it with mushroom compost but you could use anything that you want to till back into the soil. I am thinking leaves would be great not the first year but second. I have piles of leaves that have been composting a bit(lol just lying in the woods where my wife threw them.) She has a vac(It is a leaf blower and vac.) that she uses to suck them up into and into a garbage can and then dumps them. They are shredded nice and compost quicker.

I did the same thing we had some heavy duty pallets that were being thrown away so I tore them apart and used them. I did post about this last fall or in the winter I believe about making these bins it may still be on GoDuBois I will have to look. I just filled up with mushroom compost I had left over from last year and also some soil just laying around form old flower pots etc. The plants are around 40" tall right now as big as the corn my wife has planted. I do have to add another board on today as you can see and finish filling it up to the board you see now. I am out of soil so may have to stop here in a bit and get some more compost I think. I could just buy bags of soil but I would need a lot as this bin is 42"x42" square. If you look you can see potato's outside the bin that sprung up long before we planted these and they are only about 24"tall as you can tell I hate weeds also and weeding so the upper garden with the potatoes has newspaper layers with mushroom compost on it and the lower garden the one with the tomato's has weed cloth and mushrrom compost- horse manure on it. It may be the manure or the rain is all I can figure as to why my plants are small. Althoug since I put my pipe in the ground to support them and it has been sunny they sure have perked up quite a bit.

I have red tomato's already. The plants are not as bushy as they have been in the past but I have lots of fruit on them and that is all that counts. I never have had tomato's this early before and I planted about the second week of June. My potato bin is working great as far as bushy and tall potato plants. They are up to the middle of my belly and should grow to between four and five foot tall but not sure if there are any potato's on the plants though. Maybe I will take a pic of the bin I made and in a few weeks pull the bottom board off and see if that layer has any potatoes.