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Its 56F and rainy today but my hoop houses are keeping the plants warm and dry.  Why did I not do this last year?!?!     How do you like my little herb garden right in front of the new raised bed?     Its 56F outside, but its 93 inside.  The peppers love it!  I'm usually seeing a 30F delta...

Today was a high of 56F and rainy in Seattle, but inside my hoop house it was 93F!  Nice and warm  

Anything above 40F is fine.  It wont hurt your plants.  But it wont help them grow faster either.

  Do you have a hoop house setup on your raised beds?  I've found they REALLY help isolate the plants from the weather extremes we get in April.  On a 50F day, its 70F in the hoop house, and they help protect the plants from the wind and rain.  I expect I'll keep them on the beds until June.

Thanks for the encouraging words OCD!  I'm really excited about the mix of peppers I've got going this year.  Already planning the jellies and sauces to make in the fall.  At 27 pepper plants, I think I'm at the hard ceiling of my wife's acceptance.  If I add another raised bed to the yard I...

  You know, I never thought of that.  But I made a calypso sauce from frozen fatalii peppers this year and it had an awesome thick smooth consistency.  I'm going to have to try and experiment with that this year.  Maybe my next sauce, split the peppers in two, freeze half over night and make the...

Hey Organic Pepper, how are your plants going?  Been a while since you updated.  I was really interested in those raised air beds you were thinking about building

  Tuesday was a close call for me.  I had my plants out hardening and was out at lunch when hail hit about 10 miles north of where I live.  But down at my house the weather was just beautiful thank goodness

All plants in the ground...and the grow light goes dark for the year

  Oh man...I'm glad your peppers made it through the hail ok.  Hopefully your tomatoes will recover.  From a garden perspective, hail scares the crap out of me.  Nothing can ruin an entire garden as fast and as efficiently as hail

Plant Out Day!!!   24 plants in total in 2 raised beds    

Plant Out Day!!!   My top 24 plants are going into my two raised beds.  No pots this year.     So these two are my white fataliis that have been severely wrinkled since birth, but the one on the left has seemed to come out of it in the past few weeks.  The one on the right never did.  I'm only...

For me, it really depends on what flavors you want in your sauce.  Asking fresh vs dry peppers for a sauce, is like asking should I use grapes vs raisins, or fresh tomatoes vs sun dried tomatoes in a recipe.  Drying a fruit / veggie out will change its flavor profile.  So figure out what flavors...

Plants looks awesome Bill!  That greenhouse of yours seems to do the trick for you.  That Cheiro Roxa is bigger than the ones I've had under a light.

This is from a few days ago.  Everyone outside for a few hours getting used to the sun.     My Aji Verde's pepper getting bigger.  The Verde are definitely early podders.  My two Verde now have 4 pepper between them, and none of the other plants have pods yet.  I'm kind'a excited about the...

  That looks like a really interesting pepper.  I think I want to grow one next year.  Where did you score your seeds?

The Aji Lemon (or Lemon Drop) are good.  I found the Aji Pineapple last year and loved it.  Not as hot as the Aji Lemon, but it really does have a pineapple flavor to it.  Totally fun!

I used to use this wine aerator.  Its great when you just want a glass or two, or your drinking from box wine (there are actually a few good wines in a box).  But these days I think I'm more patient and relaxed when it comes to wine.  I love to use a decanter and just let the wine sit out and aerate

Got my first little baby pod from an Aji Verde  

  HA!  Thats funny.  I didn't have any problems with it last year.  The fist compost doesn't smell like rotted fish, it smells more just like really rich soil.   I did mix some compost into my veggie garden this year that had steer and chicken manure and my dog was all about that stuff.  I had...