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  Nice plants Ronaldo, when is plant out?   Glad you got that figured out...damn slugs!  I was having a problem where my tallest plant had its upper leaves chewed on.  Turns out the top of the plant touches the cover of my hoop house and the slugs were climbing the cover to reach the plant. ...

Oh hell...If I could choose from 300 varieties, order them in Jan and pick them up in May I would SOOO do that.  I really enjoy the whole process, from germination to harvest, but sometimes it would just be so much easier to skip those first 4 months indoors.   Anyone in Seattle want to start...

  Genius!

  This where most people go about tequila all wrong.  If your shooting it, your doing it wrong.  If its Silver you mix it.  If its Anejo you sip it (NOT in a shot glass) like you would a Scotch or good Bourbon.  If all you want is to get drunk, stick to Fireball  :drunk:   We have a restaurant...

Don't know if that's a white hab.  They are smaller, less round, and more jelly bean shaped.  It'll be interesting to see what they turn out to be. 

  Yup, that's about it.  Instead of re-bar, I went fancy and screwed on some PVC hangers to the side of the bed.  And for plastic just get 0.5 mil painters tarp...WAY cheaper than official hoop house covers.  I found the "large binder clips" of any office supply store fits perfectly over 1/2"...

Seattle's had highs in the mid 60's the past 5 days, but the sun is supposed to come out today and be in the mid 70's for the next few days.  I'm really loving this whole hoop house thing.  If the outside temps are mid 60's, its in the low 90's inside the hoop house.  Really useful for PNW...

Had about 5 days of weather with highs in the min 60's, so I pulled the hoop house cover on.  Temps inside were in the 90's during the middle of the day.  The plants are loving the extra heat and are growing nicely.   Today's high in the mid 70's so I pulled the cover off to give them some...

People often top their indoor pots with perlite, sand, or bark fines to help keep fungus gnats away, but its also usually accompanied with bottom watering.  It kind'a defeats the purpose if you water your plants from the top.   I like to use ultra fine bark to top my pots.  I sift bark mulch...

  Wow, love the color of your sauce!  Looks awesome!   Thanks RocketMan!  You have a papaya tree?  Man, I'm jealous   I've actually started removing seeds before I make the sauce.  Just half the peppers and scrape the seeds.  Makes it WAY easier to make a sauce when I don't have to push it...

  Yea, its always hard to give away extra plants.  I did manage to donate about 10 extras this year though.   Garlic is super easy to grow.  They like it cold, actually taste better if the ground freezes over winter.  Once you harvest them, you just tie them together in bunches of 10 or so and...

I know I said I wasn't going to do pots this year, but I had two extras plants that I just couldn't bring myself to give away: a MOA and my crazy wrinkled white fatalii.  The MOA is from my plant last year (thanks Bill) that only gave me one perfect shaped pod.  I'm hoping this guy will give me...

A lot of my first round pods are pretty small and odd looking

  Lots of folks around here like to use carrots for thickener and sweetness, but I've never been a big fan.  I like to always have a fruit base to my sauces and use them and onion for thickener.  Good luck with your sauce!  Remember, it didn't happen if there are no pictures

  Thanks OCD!  I've got a ferment I need to process soon, and I've got a bunch of last year's Fataliis in the freezer and have been kicking around the idea of a grilled pineapple and Fatalii sauce (no ferment).  That'll probably happen next month I hope.    I've been so focused on the garden...

  I had a white hab last year...pissed that I didn't save any seeds.  I really liked those.  Maybe next year.   I'm so jealous of your Okla summer where you already have baby tomatoes.  When I lived in Okla I hated gardening.  Now when I love gardening I live way up north.

While the wife's away its time to eat carne assada and wine!  

Its been about two weeks since plant out, and everybody seems to really like the hoop house setup.  Most of the plants have doubled in size'ish already.  Last year after plant out it rained for two weeks and all my plants took about 2-3 weeks to even start growing     My Cheiro Roxa have kept...

I like vinegar based sauces, but I never use white distilled vinegar.  My old go-to vinegar was Napoleon white wine vinegar.  Its not as acidic (harsh) in flavor, and has a bit of sweetness to it.  My new go-to vinegar is cane sugar vinegar (found in most Asian grocery stores).  Still has a low...

Here is a question for all y'all.  I've got my plants in dirt, but have a couple left over that didn't make the cut.  I wasn't planning on doing any pots this year, but I've got enough potting soil left over for one 5 gallon pot.  So I figured I'd do one pot just for the heck of it.  Its between...