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btw giant belgiums and making wine from them ... now you got me teased... how hard would it be for a belgian guy to find belgian seeds (for next season) or maybe even some plants for this season ;-)

bentalphanerd, my bags are packed and ready to go - can I stay at your place until I find a home of my own ;-) of what I see on some aussy border patrol television shows (they are starting to import more than neighbours, home and away and flying doctors these days ;-) ) it might be hard to get...

funny how you are talking about this very common (to you) insect that we have to watch national geographic channel to see a glimpse of it. We have to rely on our (two dotted) ladybugs to keep the bugs down - and now our ladybugs are being killed by bigger foreign species (asian and northern...

yes indeed now that you guys are bringing it up, let's get a Duvel out of the fridge ;-)

I think I go with the teabag - method for peppers this year. I try to do mostly organic so the glue method is against the religion ;-) (maybe I'll experiment with this technique though just on a few pods). Tomatoes should be fine with the mesh I use now - most experienced tomatoe growers I show...

I've got mixed feelings with this forum - lots of interesting stuff but all those messages of dudes picking pods and tomatoes already... not really influencing the motivation of this Belgian chilehead in the good way ;-)

hi hector - it's nice to meet many people from around the globe indeed sharing the same interest... I'm quite jealous though that you all seem to have local varieties of the pepper : Argentinian, Brazilian, Chinese, American ... all we belgians have is chocolat without the habanero ;-)

hi there chibi - sounds like we are playing in the same pepper-growing league this year - without making a competition let's push ourselves to the best results ;-)

Hi Pam, I did consider the airborn pollens but than again they are sheltered from strong currents in the greenhouse (most of the time ;-) ) so I'm hoping on a fair isolation. The pollen that gets airborn and does happen to hit a non-related (pepper) flower and starts of a new cross pollinated...

greg, aren't they hard to move around ? I guess that the soil is very unstable when you move it... The first part of my growing season is in newspaperpots, fairly stable but than again I don't move them a lot since they fit perfectly with 40 or so in containers - I can move the container (like...

are these overwintered plants are do you guys have that good weather that early started seeds already are fruiting ? Damn I thought I started early this year (end of feb I think) indoors in a heated propagator followed by the lamps, but my biggest plants are maybe 10 inches high...

shooty : as in 'Member of the European Parliament' ?

about the similar lesson for the boys : you could say all boys grow a purple peter pepper in their pants, based on the experience she has with peppers she will not even come close to boys and their thingies....

Belgium greetz the UK, 12 points

What are the black bags you are using as potting material ?

I wouldn't panic yet - I have seen plant recover from worse states than this one (hard to see any problem actually but than again I'm a bit of a newbie myself but still I wouldn't panic if this were one of my plants).

Hi Pam, the system I used this season was with newspaperrolls. I saw this item in a gardening magazine (looks like this : http://www.peppermintfarm.com/images/PotMaker.jpg). I made one myself size 8cm, but I made smaller ones just by rolling the newspaper strips over a tube (approx 2,5cm / 1...

oh you are right, and this is a nice summary of the technique : http://www.pimentas.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=614 this is how my tomatoflowers are isolated right now in the greenhouse :

This year I would like to experiment in saving (pure) seed. Because I like to have many different varieties of tomatoes, melons and peppers, and they have to be all in the greenhouse and they all cross-pollinate, I should take some other precautions to prevent this from happening (I cannot space...

the varieties growing so far are some aji's (red, yellow), purple tiger, banana, rocoto (red,..), habanero, cayenne, jalapeno, tabasco, thai bangkok .. it's a hot pepper collection I got from ebay. This year I swapped some seeds with other enthusiast (a sideeffect of this amusing hobby) so my...