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I'm terrible at keeping track of my grows.   This year the peppers are:   Farmer's Jalapeno - 7 Aleppo - 6 Cumra Cherry - 6 Aji Amarillo - 6 Devil's Brain - 6   In the past I have done one or two plants of a dozen varieties. I always had the problem of not enough jalapenos for a batch of...

Nice plants guys.   A few weeks ago I found a packet of Dill's Atlantic Giants from the Livingston Seed Company at the local garden store. I got my first sprout on Friday.   Here it is on April 3rd:   And on April 5th:   Here is a Jumbo Pink Banana Squash sprout. They are supposed to get...

Looks like it could be something  in the Muscari genus.

  Paw Paw (Asimina triloba)   I planted a couple grafted trees last year. It will probably be a few years before I get fruit. Until then, I'll gather them from the nearby woods.

I picked up this sundew at my local garden store today. Let's see if this starts an addiction.   IMG_3942 by rwturk85, on Flickr

Some people like Doritos, and some of them hate chewing. Now everybody is happy.

Here's a Flickr album of my Euphorbia lactea.   https://secure.flickr.com/photos/robertturk/sets/72157645366989646/   I don't have any photos of the lemon tree, I mostly hear about it over the phone.

I have a 16+ year old Euphorbia lactea. I don't know its exact age, all I know is my dad found it in the garbage at his office 16 years ago. My grandparents have a 55 year old lemon tree that still puts out a couple dozen lemon each year.

I'm guessing it might be Trifoliate Orange. I would let it grow, they are beautiful but thorny plants.

I need a Baltimore to Detroit dictionary. http://nyti.ms/1gcFaCl

In 2012 I grew "Pineapple Tomatillo" (Physalis ixocarpa). I bought the seeds on impulse at the local nursery. Last summer I grew Goldie Ground Cherry (Physalis pubescens). My seeds sprouted in about 10 days using a paper towel in a small plastic cup. Once transplanted they grew really fast. By...

There will probably be room to spare. You could grow a couple herbs in there with the tomato.

Bathing Bunny. Might be a little disturbing.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_J0AMPPD34

  Here's a variation I read on another forum.   "Don't sweat the petty stuff, and don't pet the sweaty stuff"

So who has a ripe pods in time for Christmas?   Here is my Zimbabwe Bird Pepper bonchi. Just two ripe pods for now, maybe another dozen in the next few weeks.     Show off your Christmas Trees!

This event is probably canceled, unless the shutdown ends in the next couple of days.

While visiting the arboretum today, I learned about a pepper tasting event on October 12th from 1 pm to 4 pm.   Here is the link: http://www.usna.usda.gov/Education/events.html#October   From what I saw they are mostly growing common varieties of annuums plus some ornamentals. The website says...

Here is my dense Morovas plant.     Time for a break from the chinense. This is a Zimbabwe Bird Pepper. I'm have four of these plants. The other three have 5mm pods that grow upright, but this plant the pods are 4 times bigger and just as hot.  

I am trying to grow Passiflora incarnata, which is very similar to edulis. Here is a picture of what my leaves look like.     I started the seeds in January and they didn't sprout until March. I put them outside in early May, when they were about 8 cm high. Now they are about 1 meter.

I picked up a few pods at Bowers last year. They were sweet but not as pungent as most other chinenses. The heat was almost up to a habanero.   I ate a couple fresh and dried/powdered the rest.