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For some reasons this makes me so nervous! I think I'm going to use lime juice - no one in the house likes vinegar, and the consensus is that a pepper lime sauce sounds tasty! Can I just sub lime juice for vinegar 1-1?

I planted Tabasco peppers this year and now I'm dying to make a hot sauce. Problem is, I can't stand vinegar. The taste, the smell - I can't be around it. I tried making pickles and gagged until I tied a shirt around my face. The point, I suppose, is that I would love to make a vinegar free hot...

The one plant was snipped. The other was too wilted for me to be able to tell - it sat out in the hot sun all day before I found it. But it's definitely cutworms - my dad dug one up and killed it.

I'd never heard of these, but two of my peppers (of course, the only two I had of that variety...if I remember correctly, they were the FilFIl Baladis I was so excited about) were cut down at the base of the stem. One might survive (there are a couple leaves left as well as about an inch of...

It looks perkier today! Can't decide if I'm happy it's alive or a little disappointed that I don't have space for a ghost pepper... How do those do in pots, anyway?    The pathetic little jalapeño sprout I rescued got for free from Lowe's because it was pathetic is doing pretty well!   I...

Thanks! I soaked it yesterday (and then it poured last night, so now it can't possibly be thirsty). Hopefully that'll help. If not, I know a nursery in town that had ghost pepper plants last time I was there... Pull up the sweet pepper, plant a pepper I could never possibly eat... Seems like a...

My seedlings are in the ground! I feel like a parent sending a child off into the big bad world :lol: They're not as big as I hoped they'd be, but for the most part they seem pretty healthy. Had to plant them a little close together - underestimated the number of plants who would survive!  ...

She certainly is persistent! We thought about it, but I can't remember why we decided against it. Either because of the cost of electricity or the likelihood that one of us would forget it was on and touch it :lol:

I went pepper shopping today to fill in some gaps in my grow. I also got a purple basil plant that is growing purple AND green/purple splotched in the same pot. Picked up a Carmen sweet pepper (it sounded cool) and a tabasco pepper plant. Well, kind of "a" tabasco pepper. It has 3 stems, but...

Thanks! We get a lot of deer, but it's one deer in particular. We call her Clara :lol: Just the other day we were eating dinner on the deck and watched the whole herd walk by in the woods. Except one. Clara. She split off from the herd, came up to the fence, and looked from us to the garden...

The anti-deer fence is up!   8-ish feet tall (with the board on top so they can SEE it's that tall) with wire strung up around it. The rabbit fence at the bottom is for the pesky little bunnies who think eating the leaves off stuff is fun. We're going to add more wire or rope between the...

Rattie has pneumonia and I'm not sure he's going to make it. Bad day is bad.

With all the nice, helpful people on this forum, it's hard to forget that not every forum is like this. I've been reminded.

I planted a few last year. One survived and surprised maybe coming to life this spring. Full of leaves and flowers! Until the rabbits found it... I moved it somewhere safe and it has new leaves but I think it might be too late to hope for fruit...

What's coco coir?

Hoping for last weekend in April or first weekend in May, as long as the weather plays along!

I potted up to 4" pots yesterday. They really needed it - I hadn't done a very good job the first time around! Some were starting to wilt and just look really pathetic because the soil was all packed down and it didn't hold any water. This time, I used a new soil that I baked first, then mixed...

I repotted everyone yesterday after deciding NOT to repot everyone the day before :lol:   It's a good thing I did, too, because I didn't do a very good job of potting the first time around. The soil had all been packed down and there wasn't really a place for any roots to grow. Some were on the...