So gardeners, whatcha got? Especially in the pepper department?

[Ralphie ★]

I have a few cayenne types that I recently planted, and some jalapenos I think.  Not a great year so far.

My best ones ever were poinsettia peppers - just loaded, beautiful plants.  I planted them out front and they did make excellent ornamental plants but were delicious also.  Same rampant growth happened with habaneros one year - way more than I could have ever eaten!

[Longjohn ★]

Well asking the question after the sun went down you won’t get any pictures until tomorrow. I’ve been giving away cucumbers and zucchini. The yellow cherry tomatoes are ripe. I need to pick the yellow wax beans again. Owl have to take pictures of the peppers. I bought plants off the Amish and they had a popsicle stick marked hot with them. Some look like cayennes, some look like banana peppers. I have purple bell peppers and the other bell peppers are taking their time. The corn is not ready yet but almost, it’s in tassel and little ears are formed.My Brussels sprouts plants are huge but no Brussels sprouts yet.

[Ralphie ★]

Mmm, purple bells sound good.  Yellow cherry tomatoes are awesome, they were very productive for me last year.

[Further]

I have 4 cayenne plants, they are tiny, maybe a foot tall, but 2 have peppers on them, and 2 of the peppers are red.

Have 8 jalapeno plants, again tiny plants, 2 have peppers, maybe 10 peppers

2 poblano plants, they are the biggest plants, about 3 feet tall, no peppers  

12 bell pepper plants, 2 variety's, plants look good but only 1 pepper   

Gardening is a lot more complicated than I realized.  

[Ralphie ★]

3 minutes ago, Further said:

Gardening is a lot more complicated than I realized.  

It really gives me respect for farmers, to be as consistently successful as they seem to be.

[Kirby]

WE can't do a garden here (except if you reserve a patch in the community garden and that's a whole separate world), so the only thing I can ever grow is currants for jelly.  But for some reason the currants just didn't grow well this year at all, after a bonanza year last year.  So store bought jelly it is for me this year. 

[Ralphie ★]

9 minutes ago, Kirby said:

WE can't do a garden here (except if you reserve a patch in the community garden and that's a whole separate world), so the only thing I can ever grow is currants for jelly.  But for some reason the currants just didn't grow well this year at all, after a bonanza year last year.  So store bought jelly it is for me this year. 

Well thank you anyway for the currant events report, even if it is a sad one.

 

[Zephyr]

I have not tried growing peppers.  Maybe next year, I am not sure I am in the right climate zone to grow them well.

I was just happy with growing tomatillos last year

[Prophet Zacharia]

I have mint and basil growing, well, but that is all.

[Ralphie ★]

15 minutes ago, Zephyr said:

I have not tried growing peppers.  Maybe next year, I am not sure I am in the right climate zone to grow them well.

I was just happy with growing tomatillos last year

I grew them one year.  They were fun.

A similar sort of paper-covered thing was Cape Gooseberries. They really grew well but I had absolutely no idea what to do with them.

 

[Longjohn ★]

21 minutes ago, Philander Seabury said:

I grew them one year.  They were fun.

A similar sort of paper-covered thing was Cape Gooseberries. They really grew well but I had absolutely no idea what to do with them.

 

eat them and see what happens.

[Ralphie ★]

Just now, Longjohn said:

eat them and see what happens.

Nothing spectacular happened.  They were pretty good.

[Square Wheels]

We don't eat peppers.  Greenhouse has squash, zucchini, and tomatoes.  Plus herbs and flowers.

[Further]

6 minutes ago, Square Wheels said:

We don't eat peppers.  Greenhouse has squash, zucchini, and tomatoes.  Plus herbs and flowers.

Squash is taking over my garden, how do you control it in a greenhouse ?

[Ralphie ★]

50 minutes ago, Further said:

Squash is taking over my garden, how do you control it in a greenhouse ?

The squash vine borers always bring it under control for me, but sometimes it took all summer. I don’t grow it any more. I used to get a lot of volunteers from the compost. 

[Square Wheels]

1 hour ago, Further said:

Squash is taking over my garden, how do you control it in a greenhouse ?

 

You can't.  It takes over.  She planted less this year.

[Longjohn ★]

[shootingstar]

Like LJ, Hungarian sweet peppers and purple peppers grown in British Columbia.

[Johnny Come Lately Name]

Thai birdseye. Just found the first two peppers. They were hiding.

[Parsnip Totin Jack ★]

Farmers market. No sun in the yard, deer, squirrels and chipmunks all prevent a garden here. 

[Johnny Come Lately Name]

2 minutes ago, Old No. 7 said:

Farmers market. No sun in the yard, deer, squirrels and chipmunks all prevent a garden here. 

IThere’s a farm stand right on the corner, so I usually hit him up. 

I have no garden anymore, only have a couple of potted plants. When I did have a garden, I grew stuff I couldn’t buy, like San Marzano tomatoes.

[team scooter]

This morning's loot. Tomatoes are still green and a few weeks out. I think I'll hop on the groovy lil motorbike and check out their tomatoes at the corner farm stand. Mmm homemade salsa.  

[Longjohn ★]

Owl bet I’m going to have zucchini and cucumber as big as a watermelon when I get home. I was picking a half dozen of each every day and they were already starting to get away from me.

[Ralphie ★]

2 minutes ago, Longjohn said:

Owl bet I’m going to have zucchini and cucumber as big as a watermelon when I get home. I was picking a half dozen of each every day and they were already starting to get away from me.

Why oh why do people plant zucchini?  

 

[Longjohn ★]

Just now, Philander Seabury said:

Why oh why do people plant zucchini?  

 

I like them. My wife’s care givers like them. So far before my heart attack we were eating or giving them away as fast as we were harvesting them.

[team scooter]

Yum Salsa Time!

Yowsa my nose is running and my mouth is on fire. These Serranos are sneaky hot, but yummy. 

[Johnny Come Lately Name]

On 7/17/2020 at 9:19 PM, Longjohn said:

I’ve been giving away cucumbers and zucchini

You and everyone else. I used to plant it, but stopped. Around here you need to start locking your car this time of year or you’ll find zucchini in it.

[Johnny Come Lately Name]

On 7/25/2020 at 12:05 PM, Longjohn said:

we were eating or giving them away as fast as we were harvesting them.

You must have been working like hell. As soon as you see a blossom, you have to stand over the plant and watch. If you get distracted and look away for more than a minute, you’ll wind up with something you need a forklift to get out of the garden.

I had some that I didn’t see get away from me and get huge and seedy, so I was cutting them off and chucking them off into the weeds....a few minutes later, Gus started bringing them back. For a long time after that, when anyone asked me what kind of dog he was, I’d say, with a straight face “Zucchini Retriever”.

[Johnny Come Lately Name]

On 7/17/2020 at 10:13 PM, Prophet Zacharia said:

I have mint and basil growing,

I have Thai Basil and “regular” basil, in pots. Goddamn aphids were in the Thai basil and snails on the other basil. The aphids were really tough to see, but I finally figured out who the culprits were and they got dish soaped. The snails were hanging out on the underside of the leaves so it took me a bit to find them. When I did, I pulled them off and chucked them across the yard. I’m imagining a couple of snails going “Whoa! Where am I and how did I get here? It all happened so fast....”