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I've thought about starting my own worm farm, but I don't have a good place to do it indoors, and so I'd be restarting it every year. It's not terribly expensive, so I probably could go that route anyway.   I've also thought about buying a bucket of red wrigglers and just dumping them into my...

Looking at probably mixing a 50/50 perlite/coco coir for the soil in the potted plants, and tossing in some mykos and azomite in there as well. I have some cal-mag+ and fish fertilizers, and some epsom salts. That should give me most of what the plants need, so we'll see what happens. I can...

44 pages and not even in the dirt, yet? That's crazy!   Glad to see you survived the winter, we really got slammed here. The last of the snow cleared out of of my place a couple weeks ago, other than the dusting we got earlier this week.    Love the idea with the flue tile, I've been thinking of...

Thanks, McGuiver     I just ordered some more perlite for the garden, and some coco coir. I'm going to try a pepper or two in the coco coir, I've got some 10 gallon pots that should do nicely. Any pointers on nutrients to add to this, or if I should mix in some perlite, or what? I've got some...

What the heck, weather? 70 degrees one day, snow the next?    Anyway, this year is going to be way stepped back from last year. We now have a 7 week old baby in the house, and between preparing for his arrival and actually having him here, I didn't get a chance to get any seeds started. They'll...

I'll have to check out the solar mulch stuff. I saw that you had good luck with the red ones on your tomatoes, and that you're using black on your peppers.   We don't have a dog, ours passed away at the ripe ol' age of 18 last October. She was probably the sweetest dog you'd ever meet, but she...

I moved a bunch of the potted guys out front where they will get more sun, and wrapped all of my plants in a clear plastic drop cloth. I'm hoping I'll get a mini greenhouse effect.   I actually managed to name most of the plants while sorting, and found a couple of the missing tags. I've got...

If I had realized how terribly out of focus the shots I took of my dried peppers were, I would have tried again. Ugh. I dried my jamaican hot chocolates, a couple cayennes, my thais, cheiro recife and almapaprika. I still have some fresh pods left, I'll put them into a quick pico de gallo type...

Rick - been a while since I've had a chance to read your glog, so I'm trying to catch up. Looking good! The cool temps you've been having worry me - if what happened in the spring holds true, I should be that far behind you, and I still need a lot of growing left in the season. Sounds like I'm...

  What does the plastic mulch do the soil quality? I've heard that landscaping fabric can really keep nutrients from the soil, but I'm assuming the solar mulch is okay because you remove it and add amendments every year.  I was thinking of putting the solar mulch (or...black trashbags :) ) down...

We've hit the low 40s a few times, but nothing below that. I'm hoping that'll hold for a couple more weeks. I've got a fair number of green pods out there, so...come on weather. I might be able to move a couple of the bagged plants inside at night, but that'll be limited to a select few plants...

Awesome! Did you isolate any seeds from the urfa biber? I ffigured out which plants were mine. Tons of green pods on them, but no buds that were closed, so I couldn't cover them. Hopefully they ripen soon, I may not need your seeds (but will trade other stuff, if you are interested). Small...

  The urfa biber was one of the plants that I lost the tags on, I think an animal was stealing them, though that would be weird. I THINK I know where they are, we'll see if I get anything from them. My plants are running really late. I'm hoping to get some aleppo before the cold hits, we'll see...

I've been slacking...harvest pictures!   My first harvest, mini yellow bells:   a week or so later...some almapaprika   Then some real harvests:   from top left, unknown (fresno? the tags rotted on a lot of my plants...), datil, orange hab, cheiro recife, san marzano tomato, prik kee noo suan...

Man, I forgot when the due date was for this :)   I have like...3 or 4 ripe peppers on my plants. A billion green guys, though. No challenge, there, heh.

You're a little ahead of me on pods, my cheiros are exploding, but no pods, yet.   Here's the in ground peppers and my tomato "patch." My two cheiros are the big guys in the center, there. Numex suave orange, mini yellow bell and almapaprika surround them.   My potted peppers, with some beans...

So, went away on vacation for a week, and my sprinklers failed to turn on when we had no rain and triple digit temps. My lawn is dead,  a bunch of my herbs bit it, my zucchini and cukes are alive, but hurting...and my pepper plants EXPLODED. Apparently they like the heat. I need to snap pics...

The cheiro recife are from pepper mania: http://www.peppermania.com/chinense_7.html Interesting that the coloring is different, I wonder if it's a slightly different strain or something.     The bonnets are from Pepper Joe, and are just listed as "Scotch Bonnet Hot Pepper." The picture has them...

Well, the rabbits ate the broccoli, fennel, dill, lettuce, chives, marigolds, onions...probably a few others, and the chipmunks ate all the strawberries.   I have some pictures...but I apparently fail at getting them up. I'll work on that. I found a baby zucchini, yesterday, which is cool. I...

Heh, rifled. Kinda hard to hide that from the neighbors, particularly with the smoke cloud it'll leave...