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  Those look nice and healthy... just a few more weeks to go!  

  Yeah Baby! Is that colored Chinense a BBM?   It's kinda hard to say if they're pepper maggots that made the holes unless you open up the pod and find they ate the placenta and left frass behind. I hope not!    

Yup, the yellow flowers are daffodils. Pink Naked Ladies? Which ones are they? I got my onions and kale planted this morning. Next job is mulching them and setting up the rain barrel. Sent from my SM-S327VL using Tapatalk

Smart woman... don't let her go! [emoji106] Sent from my SM-S327VL using Tapatalk

Cool! How are your tomatoes faring? Did you end up trimming them back? Pics? I think mine are a little behind yours... [emoji14] Sent from my SM-S327VL using Tapatalk

A quick question Liz... are you a reader of Lois McMaster Bujold? I came across the term "violent glitter" in her book Barrayar. Sent from my SM-S327VL using Tapatalk

It looks like Spring is finally here! Things are quickly greening up and my "indicator" plants are beginning to make an appearance... like the old-fashioned Bleeding Heart. The over-wintered alliums are all growing out... Evergreen scallions, garlic chives and garlic. I'll be transplanting my...

I can see you've been busy... good on ya! Not much longer 'til dirt-day! [emoji106] Sent from my SM-S327VL using Tapatalk

The tank is full now? Woot! Glad to hear the squall didn't do any real damage, hopefully it didn't strip off any of those Bell peppers! Sent from my SM-S327VL using Tapatalk

Looking really good Gary! Good luck in 2018, as long as the weather co-operates I'm sure you'll do well. Cheers! Sent from my SM-S327VL using Tapatalk

My growdown plant has grown another inch since up-potting to a 4 liter Air-pot, and the root tips are already pushing out the bottom. Looks like there's gonna be another growth spurt soon.     The pic is a little blurry, but the axillary growth is over an inch long and beginning to push out.  ...

  Hey, Jacques' in the house... thanks for dropping by buddy! It's still early to be putting chiles in the ground here. I want overnight low temperatures to be consistently in the 40s before I set them outside to harden off under the cloche, and the low 50s before I transplant. D(irt)-day will...

  Not a problem Adam. :)   Looking further into it, it seems that the PDN is a Chinense x Annuum cross, with the provenance confirmed by Jukka at Fatalii.net   https://www.fatalii.net/Articles/Pimenta-da-Neyde   So it's no wonder some of the plants have a more Annuum-type growing habit. The...

Yeah, it's those coke bottle glasses he wears... he could probably see them from space. [emoji28] Sent from my SM-S327VL using Tapatalk

  I hadn't heard anything about using nematodes to control Pepper Maggots until you mentioned it just now Ben... thanks for the heads-up! This is what I found in my first search of the 'net...   http://www.ct.gov/CAES/cwp/view.asp?A=2815&Q=376708   Interesting... I hadn't heard before that the...

Cheers Adam! So far I've had the best success with Orange Manzanos. Pubes in general seem to grow slower here, but also don't seem to need partial shade. I guess the climate in the Andean highlands where they come from is pretty similar. The growdown plant has pushed its root tips out of the...

  Finest kind! Is it well-composted or still full of ammonia? When I do apply it, I get the green horse manure and spread it on the garden in fall so it can mellow over the course of the winter. Did you know that in the days before industrial production of Ammonia they used to seal Limburger...

So here is the larger of the two Peruvian Rocotos... apparently I didn't remember its growing habit as well as I thought I did. It did fork 3 times after the first one, but it's more upright than I thought. The smaller Rocoto forked for the first time yesterday. Sent from my SM-S327VL using...

S'right brother! I went to college before the Internet, and hardcopy in those days was books and microfilm or microfiche. I just added Google to my list of resources is all... And +1 on cross-checking data from multiple confirmed sources. Sent from my SM-S327VL using Tapatalk

Eventually, you'll hit the wall when you max out your CEC. Then all you have to do is replace what you remove from the soil with your harvests, and keep your organic matter content above 5% (though up to 15% is possible.) Sent from my SM-S327VL using Tapatalk