“In a Heart Beet!” Cute. I love it.
I’ve read that the Beet Greens will grow back, depending on how they are cut (removed).
My chilis last year were surprising hot. Something had made me believe that Hungarian hot peppers were mild. Nearly choked on the heat when I used them for the first time in a recipe. Was tempted this year to buy scorpion or ghost pepper seeds. I wised up and decided not the take the risk of blowing my head off.
Jalapeno is a great pepper for me to grow as well as mild banana peppers. Very versatile and if you seed the jalapeno, not much heat at all, just flavor. Love picking them right off the plant to use in recipes!
Had my hands on a HOT hungarian pepper plant the other day. But I was kind to my not-heat-loving family and put it down in favor of a mild variety!
Jalapeno is a great pepper for me to grow as well as mild banana peppers. Very versatile and if you seed the jalapeno, not much heat at all, just flavor. Love picking them right off the plant to use in recipes!
Had my hands on a HOT hungarian pepper plant the other day. But I was kind to my not-heat-loving family and put it down in favor of a mild variety!
I haven’t bought a habanero pepper yet but my sister has one plant and she gave some peppers to her landscaper and he is Mexican, used to eat hot peppers, came back and told her the peppers were too much for him. No kidding. Where is this pepper originally came from, I mean what country of origin.
She told me she might give me some, I was thinking of using them as pesticide. I should be able to kill some grass hoppers.
I’ve heard they’re from Jamaica. The word Habenero is the Spanish way of saying someone is from Havana, Cuba. The pepper looks like a hat that men from Havana used to wear.
I mean, I love hot things. These were not hot, they were KILLER HOT!!!
If you order pepper seeds, the catalog lists a number indicating the hotness of the pepper variety. Habanero is in the 10,000 range while other pepper, like Thai chili is only 1000, IIRC.
I like Pasilla, Poblano and Anaheim peppers.
MUCH milder.
http://missvickie.com/howto/spices/peppers/peppersdict.html
Looking at that link, I do have Anaheim Chili, but it tastes like Banana.
Bunnies got an entire row of beans, but they paid. The cat got 'em.
I just pulled out all the ugly tomatoes and ugly yellow squash leaves today. I have found I’ve two nice cherry tomato plants, so nice and green. I moved the tomato cages. I’m getting smarter on how to do this type of cage.
My husband finished two more trellis this weekend, I can’t wait to put them in my garden. Perhaps I can use one for the kiwi and one for passion fruit vines.
@DrGoggle, how big is your garden - sounds HUGE!!! And do you live in California? You are able to grow a lot of things we midwesterners cannot!!!
Yes, bunnies also ate my beans and peas - ugh. Pre-chicken wire that is.
It’s small, my lot is less than 6000 square feet. It’s condoish as I often joke about. But I’m determined to let that not bother me. Haha. I’m now the designated vegetable grower for family, one of my kid and her business partner, who happens to love fresh vegetable and is a foodie.
I bought books on how to make your small garden bigger. Go vertical is the advice from all the books.
Dr. Google, why is your husband doing all the work? LOL
He is good with his hands, but isn’t that what husbands are for? LOL! I do the planting and harvesting. But seriously it’s easy, not hard job. I helped painted and he just used the power tool to install couple screws. I’m the architect with ideas on how the trellis should look like, we buy precut wood from home depot. So he is not doing all the work. It’s equal participation.
editing. Thought you meant 6000 sq feet for the veggie garden.
No for the whole house. Subtract 3000 sq ft house and I have even less. All the new houses in my city have postage stamp size lot.
Our lot is 5000sq ft, plus about another 600 on the planting strip.( our house has a 1000 sq ft foot print, the detached garage about 200ft)
I am trying to balance ornamentals for screening, while taking into consideration where I get sun, and what vegetables & fruits are most time & space efficent to grow, thinking of what I like, what is a pain to grow, and what is cheap at the grocery store or farmers market.
Squash for example hasnt been worth it, but tomatoes definitely!
I grow mostly herbs & berries, and tomatoes & peppers in rotating locations.
Blueberries are part of the landscaping, as are huckleberries & strawberries.
Strawberries are also growing in strawberry pots & hanging baskets.
Raspberries are growing up trellises and arbors.
My house is 3 stories which, along with a big old maple, shades the yard too much for veggies. This stifles my inner Martha Stewart. My planting area (where the sun reliably shines long enough, all season,) is probably about 150sf at the far end of the driveway. I’ve planted only a teeny fraction of that, in my elevated square foot style planter, on wheels (top of the dirt is 30" off the ground.) Plus some containers, also on wheels.
Everything I have in is growing slowly (except the potatoes, in grow bags; that greenery is the size I think it should be, for the number of weeks.) I also think Dr G’s early results are throwing off my sense of timing and I shouldn’t expect any harvest, even onesie-twosies, for at least a month.
Blooms! Blooms! The Cherry Tomato plants and the Gretel Eggplants are blooming already!!! Did I do something right this year? If these flowers don’t transition into fruit, well then I’ll crawl back into the house with a pail over my head.