franzb69

hey guys, just saw this vid and you guys might wanna check it out. =D

no construction required raised bed:



fabric!!! =D

So anyway, we just adopted a cat. It ran away from their house (the house across the street) because it wasn't being treated right. So it started showing up in my garden and as usual, the animal lover in me got soft on him and fed it. Now it won't leave! lol. So I talked to the owner and told us that we could have it. Good news right? to keep them birds away and all that.

It's fairly young, still a bit in it's kitty stage. Very sweet. So it's still pretty curious about stuff and wants to explore it's new territory. Problem is, we have TEN dogs at the moment and the garden is it's only place that dogs don't really get to wander around. And the fact that it (i keep calling it "it" coz he doesn't have a name yet, lol. I just call it the cat that we adopted.) has been starting to poop in my garden!!!! and we all know cat poop is not good for the vegetable garden. Like just today, when we clean our fish, I keep the dirty water from the cleaning process and use it as fertilizer/soil conditioner for my plants and water them with it. So now since the garden smells like dead fish, it just goes around and walks all over my pots and my plants looking for the fish it's smelling. I guess that was my fault, but i've been doing that all the time.

anyway......how to keep it away from my garden??????

it's a cat, so fences aren't exactly a way to keep it out.

today i kept it in a cage for a couple hours til the smell of fish went away. so it just hung around the gazebo with the help, where it used to hang around and sleep and eat.

sorry rambling for on and on.....

a super caterpillar just ate through one of my bhuts



darn thing bore a hole, ate up  the seeds and everything else from the inside out. hardcore stuff.


anyone else here have a similar experience?

first thing i've ever seen this ever.

i have one plant that i labelled as a fresno but in its place actually grew a naga type pepper plant.

can anyone help me identify what it is? these are the first few pods so i have yet to see one ripen.







thanks all.

the reason why i think these aren't bhuts is because the plant doesn't have the same leaf shape as the bhuts that i do have. will try to post pictures of the foliage soon.

differences of pod shapes from two different towns that came from india

gwahati





jorhat





one is stubbier, both are around the same length, the other is thinner.

i have yet to test one or crack one open. soon.


btw, the jorhat ones actually ripen from light green to dark green to shades of brown then orange then a bright red.

the gwahati, i have yet to get one to ripen. lol.

i just thought these two strains be interesting.