Recent content by shaggs2riches

I am wondering if anyone has ever tried to warm a greenhouse/coldframe by blowing warmed air through piping ran under the soil and then vented into the greenhouse? My garden is a 8 foot x 32 foot raised bed, that has a pvc coldframe covering it, to make a single layer greenhouse. I have a 6 inch...

The store in town has them for $12 per bottle. I was thinking it could add up. Indoor use I might only be using a small amount at a time, so it might last a while for the price. The only thing I'm not sure about is if there is any added benefit over a one step fertilizer. Sent from my SM-N950W...

Just wondering if anyone has experience with Holland secret 3 step nutrients. I have never used this type of nutrients before always a premixed or granular fertilizer. I try to use natural fertilizers in the garden, but for indoors I find it easier to use a quick water soluble fertilizer. This...

We did our first batch of pickled peppers a couple months ago. Today I finally decided to open a jar and give them a test. Turns out that they taste like nothing but vinegar. It was extremely hard to put down and had zero flavour otherwise. We have used the same recipe for beets and they turned...

I've got a decent amount of sweeter type peppers that I need to use up. I have no idea what these peppers are as they were wrong seeds from what I had ordered. I have been doing a decent amount of eating them whole to knock down the pile, but they are starting to slowly shrivel up. I am just...

  I loved my yellow 7 pots (brainstrains), they have solid flavor and produced well enough for me. The baccatums are a real solid way to go for something that can produce a lot, have fantastic flavour and are mild enough to eat right off the plant. Bishops crown are one of my favorites at the...

Here is a final video of my garden for the season. I am still going to try to do a bit of documenting of the plants before the cold finally kills everything off. A friend suggested pulling warm air from the house into the greenhouse to keep the frost at bay. I have already started harvesting...

Almost forgot that you will want to be prepared to take care of aphids when bringing in the plants though. I collected a few ladybugs that hung around my plant for a couple months when they first came in the house.

They are looking real good for sure. I can tell you that they will have awesome production next year if brought in over the winter I dug up a chocolate habanero plant from last season, because they were just flowering when the cold hit us. I kept the plant under a couple 6 tube t5 fixtures all...

I totally was going to take pictures and post them this weekend. The plant stem was turning black, but up to the top where the branch "wye'd" there were a few stringy pieces that seemed to be roots. I decided to put it in a bucket of soil and see what would happen. To my dismay this morning...

Yeah the recipe is completely uncooked. The only thing I do is remove the seeds and placenta from the peppers and toss them in the blender when crushing up the berries. We used to have a liquid pectin that had a no cook recipe that called for way less sugar, but I can't find it in the stores...

  I have considered the water bath canning lately actually. We are just learning how to do the canning with pickling and a salsa recipe from a canning book. I guess the only other reason that we haven't is just the simplicity of making it this way. I will give the cocoa a try, sounds real good...

So I finally decided to open an imgur account, to replace photobucket. Since I can post pictures again, I thought I would share what I have been up to lately. We like to make simple freezer jams with fresh berries and I've gotten into the habit of throwing in some hot peppers into the mix. These...

The branch was basically still green on the outside and was thicker than a sharpie marker, maybe a tad bit woody on the inside. It has been 10 days now, so not quite two weeks. Nothing looks to be happening to it inside the pail. I figured maybe it would be a while with a larger branch. I just...

Almost two weeks ago I accidentally broke a large branch off a scotch bonnet plant. I was inspired from Peter Stanley's low pressure aeroponics system, so I figured I would give a try at rooting in a similar method. I cut a hole in the center of a 5 gallon pail lid and mounted a small tomato...