Recent content by GreenEnvy22

It was a pricey winter :) But the greenhouse was only part of it, we also have a hybrid camper, and me and some of my kids like to sleep in it in the winter, so we also had that heater running as well. One of the reasons I wanted to build this against the house, was that I can get some heat from...

A few years ago I built a little greenhouse on the back of our house. It was made with scrap 2x4, plywood, and polycarbonate panels. It was like 4x8 feet, only 6 ft tall. I mostly used it for overwintering peppers, and other delicate plants that can't take our Canadian winters. It was heated...

Seedlings are coming along pretty well. I've been moving them into the greenhouse outside as they get bigger. Today I transplanted a few into 5 gallon buckets, and repotted the overwintered plants from last year. I also got the garden beds mostly prepped, just some manure left to pickup on the...

Very cool, but I don't have the patience to cut up 200 cups like that :) I've got somewhere around 80 plants that have sprouted so far, and another 100 or so peppers planted in cups. I just started some tomatoes as well. They are all looking pretty good so far. I've got them on 4 different...

I was shocked too, because I've never seen those as pests before, always friends. But they were quite visible gnawing on the stems of the plants until they tipped over, then they would eat the rest of it. We always refresh the soil in our raised beds with new compost heavy soil each year as...

Good idea, I'll have to try that if these cups don't work out well. We're at least fortunate here that an 18 inch chicken wire fence around the perimeter of the garden is sufficient to keep the rabbits away, which are the main problem we have for larger animals. The cats usually get the...

Yes, the bottom 1.5" of the cup will be cut off. Last year I had done a more traditional grow in small pots, then remove and place direct in the ground. As the pill bugs started decimating my plants I put red cups like this around them, buried about an inch deep in the ground, so sticking up...

I just started my seeds for 2022 today. I typically do like 10 varieties a year, 3 of each plant, for around 39 total. Mostly the superhots like ghost, Reapers, and scorpions. I mostly make hot sauce with them, we also have a large veggie garden, so pretty much everything in the hot sauce comes...

Real Thanksgiving was last month (Canada) :) Maybe Christmas, that might get me booted from Turkey duty though. I personally hate pickles. The rest of my family loves them, but not this spicy.

I've been making cooked/canned hot sauces for years but just finished my first fermented one.  I have about 2 quarts of leftover very spicy/salty brine left over, a yellowish colour.   Anyone use this for anything else? When visiting family in South America they have a clear spicy liquid they...

I got my potted peppers, tomatoes, and figs into the greenhouse to overwinter. This will be the 1st winter for this, I've used my garage in the past. I have two LED grow lights in there that will come on for about 5 hours a day (7:30am-12:30, when the sun gets around the roof), and an oil...

Possible Frost tonight (a few weeks early), so moved my potted peppers and tomatoes into the greenhouse, and tried to cover up the peppers and tomatoes in the garden. the peppers are pretty well covered, they are the bed in the back corner, but the tomatoes are only partially covered. I have...

Stem looks fine. Got it strung back up and rinsed off. Will see how it does.

Getting a severe storm here right now, warnings of 100kph+ winds and even a tornado watch. I went out ahead of time and just make sure all of my peppers and tomatoes were tied up well. Unfortunately, one of my 20 foot tall hops Vines has fallen into the pool, the support bracket broke in the...

Well sadly we're off to a bad start. We left in early march to go visit family in South America. My parents were looking after the pets/house/seedlings, but forgot about the seedlings for a few days and they dried out and most died. Once we got back (and are in self quarantine for 2 weeks after...