Weather is greeting warmer so I decided to plant my peppers. This year I’m growing Cayenne, reaper, ghost and Red Devils tongue. This year I used 2 100watt led grow lights and it made a huge difference. Plants are 2x bigger than past years. Looking forward to a big harvest this year 🌶👍🏻
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt
At the behest of the bride, when the deck was built, she had them put flower boxes in one end and the part near the house she had them put in a box for a herb garden.
She's doing Roma tomatoes, basil, celery, banana peppers, green peppers and jalapeno peppers. I'm hoping they do well.
Maybe next year ghost or reapers. You have to work into these things.
70 a couple of days ago and it's snowing now. We have a hard freeze coming tonight and tomorrow night. Covered our peas, turnips, radishes, and mustard with straw and wrapped up a couple of Japanese maples with row cover. All our chard, raddicho, lettuce, basil, peppers and tomatoes are started in flats and are inside.
Was going to pick up some plants last weekend, glad I waited now. Cold snap has them all looking sickly here. May wait one more week to see what survives at the stores.
Hollyhocks are going crazy this year
Ruby Red Grapefruit harvest today. Picked up the tree back in 2015 from a nursery that was going out of business. No tag on the tree but I knew it was a citrus tee. Paid $35 for a 15 gallon and when I was planted it I found the tag at the bottom of the container. Score!
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt
Question, we had an herb box built when we had out deck built. It's about 4 feet long and a foot wide. It's only about 10 inches deep.
My wife planted one Roma tomato plant, parsley, basil and three different pepper plants, Everything is going gang busters but the tomato plant is dying. Is it possible it needs deeper soil than the others? They are all being cared foe the same way. Help!
@YankeeMan I've not had any luck growing tomatoes in small containers. I planted a few in my grow beds that are 4' wide x 8' long x 12" deep and they did well. Article I found online which might help Link
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt
A couple of our raised beds. Peas, turnips, radishes , mustard in the first one and lettuce, onions, chard, raddicho, and endive in the bed with the frame. It's finally getting warm.
It's getting pretty around here. The dogwoods, poplar, honey locust and azaleas are blooming and in the deep woods the wild flowers are showing. We have a dozen or more wild azaleas that I dug in the woods and transplanted thirty years ago. Here are some.
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Have a critter digging up tomatoes plants in our garden. Getting past the fence. I set my trail cam and here is the critter.
Ill set up my live trap tonight and hopefully have a **** to take at least four miles away to release.
Rodger, have the armadillos made it that far yet? We've had them for a few years here in West TN, at first just a rare sighting, but I know of at least 3 dens on my property. At first I thought "I'm going to rub them out!", but I've reconsidered. It just is what it is, and I'm pretty sure they eat a lot of Japanese Beetle grubs, so, there's that.
One of the first armadillos I saw in this area was while driving to a friend of mines house. Interesting guy, he was a Navy medic stationed with a Marine unit in Vietnam, later became part of an Army SF unit. I told him "I saw an armadillo dead on the side of the road a couple miles from here", his reply? "I thought they were born that way." Had to laugh at that.
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@First_Warrior said:
Have a critter digging up tomatoes plants in our garden. Getting past the fence. I set my trail cam and here is the critter.
Ill set up my live trap tonight and hopefully have a **** to take at least four miles away to release.
Rodger, have the armadillos made it that far yet? We've had them for a few years here in West TN, at first just a rare sighting, but I know of at least 3 dens on my property. At first I thought "I'm going to rub them out!", but I've reconsidered. It just is what it is, and I'm pretty sure they eat a lot of Japanese Beetle grubs, so, there's that.
One of the first armadillos I saw in this area was while driving to a friend of mines house. Interesting guy, he was a Navy medic stationed with a Marine unit in Vietnam, later became part of an Army SF unit. I told him "I saw an armadillo dead on the side of the road a couple miles from here", his reply? "I thought they were born that way." Had to laugh at that.
No armadillos yet but I've seen hog sign 1/2 mile down the road.
Our garden is sure coming in. Green beans, cakes, squash, lettuce, carrots and the tomatoes are getting ripe. my other went over the top with tomatoes this year and we ended up with 30 plants.
@First_Warrior said:
Have a critter digging up tomatoes plants in our garden. Getting past the fence. I set my trail cam and here is the critter.
Ill set up my live trap tonight and hopefully have a **** to take at least four miles away to release.
Rodger, have the armadillos made it that far yet? We've had them for a few years here in West TN, at first just a rare sighting, but I know of at least 3 dens on my property. At first I thought "I'm going to rub them out!", but I've reconsidered. It just is what it is, and I'm pretty sure they eat a lot of Japanese Beetle grubs, so, there's that.
One of the first armadillos I saw in this area was while driving to a friend of mines house. Interesting guy, he was a Navy medic stationed with a Marine unit in Vietnam, later became part of an Army SF unit. I told him "I saw an armadillo dead on the side of the road a couple miles from here", his reply? "I thought they were born that way." Had to laugh at that.
Kill E'm!!! They tear up everything, same with wild hogs, possum, c o o n s. Also armadillos are one of the only mammals left that carry and spread lepersy! Nasty nasty varmints!
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The zucchini are done producing, but we got about 8 really large delicious ones out of them. Everything else is coming in great now. My bell peppers are just starting to turn colors too. There about 15 habaneros that haven’t started to change yet, but definitely looking forward to those.
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Weather is greeting warmer so I decided to plant my peppers. This year I’m growing Cayenne, reaper, ghost and Red Devils tongue. This year I used 2 100watt led grow lights and it made a huge difference. Plants are 2x bigger than past years. Looking forward to a big harvest this year 🌶👍🏻
It's too bad you won't get any really hot ones.
At the behest of the bride, when the deck was built, she had them put flower boxes in one end and the part near the house she had them put in a box for a herb garden.
She's doing Roma tomatoes, basil, celery, banana peppers, green peppers and jalapeno peppers. I'm hoping they do well.
Maybe next year ghost or reapers. You have to work into these things.
70 a couple of days ago and it's snowing now. We have a hard freeze coming tonight and tomorrow night. Covered our peas, turnips, radishes, and mustard with straw and wrapped up a couple of Japanese maples with row cover. All our chard, raddicho, lettuce, basil, peppers and tomatoes are started in flats and are inside.
Mountain gardening sounds tough. When is your last frost date?
Edward, it can be the middle of May. We have moveable pvc cold frames for our spring and for the fall.
It isn't a garden but I managed to get the fountain working and a few tomato plants in pots.
Roses for the front.
Was going to pick up some plants last weekend, glad I waited now. Cold snap has them all looking sickly here. May wait one more week to see what survives at the stores.
Hollyhocks are going crazy this year
Ruby Red Grapefruit harvest today. Picked up the tree back in 2015 from a nursery that was going out of business. No tag on the tree but I knew it was a citrus tee. Paid $35 for a 15 gallon and when I was planted it I found the tag at the bottom of the container. Score!
Question, we had an herb box built when we had out deck built. It's about 4 feet long and a foot wide. It's only about 10 inches deep.
My wife planted one Roma tomato plant, parsley, basil and three different pepper plants, Everything is going gang busters but the tomato plant is dying. Is it possible it needs deeper soil than the others? They are all being cared foe the same way. Help!
We are rookies at this.
@YankeeMan I've not had any luck growing tomatoes in small containers. I planted a few in my grow beds that are 4' wide x 8' long x 12" deep and they did well. Article I found online which might help Link
planted seeds for some of this:
https://klamathsiskiyouseeds.com/product/nicotiana-quadrivalvis-indian-tobacco/
A couple of our raised beds. Peas, turnips, radishes , mustard in the first one and lettuce, onions, chard, raddicho, and endive in the bed with the frame. It's finally getting warm.
It's getting pretty around here. The dogwoods, poplar, honey locust and azaleas are blooming and in the deep woods the wild flowers are showing. We have a dozen or more wild azaleas that I dug in the woods and transplanted thirty years ago. Here are some.
Harvested the last of the spinach.
Another azalea.
Have a critter digging up tomatoes plants in our garden. Getting past the fence. I set my trail cam and here is the critter.
Ill set up my live trap tonight and hopefully have a **** to take at least four miles away to release.
Rodger, have the armadillos made it that far yet? We've had them for a few years here in West TN, at first just a rare sighting, but I know of at least 3 dens on my property. At first I thought "I'm going to rub them out!", but I've reconsidered. It just is what it is, and I'm pretty sure they eat a lot of Japanese Beetle grubs, so, there's that.
One of the first armadillos I saw in this area was while driving to a friend of mines house. Interesting guy, he was a Navy medic stationed with a Marine unit in Vietnam, later became part of an Army SF unit. I told him "I saw an armadillo dead on the side of the road a couple miles from here", his reply? "I thought they were born that way." Had to laugh at that.
"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain
I am getting a new roof next week after a pregnant raccoon decided to try to tear its way into the attic. They probably have their good points but I can't think of any at the moment.
No armadillos yet but I've seen hog sign 1/2 mile down the road.
Sprayed the peach trees one last time with garden Sulphur to keep fungus at bay. Last year we lost the entire crop to grey mold.
Oh and smoking a Curivari.
Our garden is sure coming in. Green beans, cakes, squash, lettuce, carrots and the tomatoes are getting ripe. my other went over the top with tomatoes this year and we ended up with 30 plants.
Swiss chard.
Italian basil and Thia basil and lettuce
Nice garden Rodger though you have made me jealous, I want a cake bush too.
Kill E'm!!! They tear up everything, same with wild hogs, possum, c o o n s. Also armadillos are one of the only mammals left that carry and spread lepersy! Nasty nasty varmints!
Every morning I go pick.
The zucchini are done producing, but we got about 8 really large delicious ones out of them. Everything else is coming in great now. My bell peppers are just starting to turn colors too. There about 15 habaneros that haven’t started to change yet, but definitely looking forward to those.
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Japelenos will turn red if you leave them on the plant... and they taste better red.
Interesting, there are more on there yet, I will let those turn.
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Hoping the storm doesn't trash my eggplants and peppers. It does look like it is landing south of us, batten down the hatches. @cbuck .
More from our garden. We will be making tomato sauce soon. I crafted the two larger baskets while learning how to weave fiber.