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Could I sub perlite for the pumice? Not sure where I could find that..

I have (12) 3 gallon fabric pots and (10) 5 gallon fabric pots. This is really all new to me as I have used a raised bed for the last 5 years at my current house. I know that I will have to water daily in the heat of the summer, but I don’t really mind that. I was going back and forth between...

This year I will be doing all container plants after letting my garden fall under to the Bermuda grass. Maybe I will get in there and go all scorched earth but for now I will do what I can on my patio. Seed sowed Feb 11, as of yesterday all except one had germinated. Those were some 5 year old...

Went away for one long weekend and came back to mass destruction from horn worms. Bastards got my entire chili pequin, half my bell pepper, and my ghostly jalapeño. Luckily the scotch bonnets and brains were spared. Got a good harvest from the remaining.

  Going to make some roasted salsa, and eat all of it this holiday weekend!

First harvest of the year, got a good amount of the chili de agua and jalapeños. Got some habaneros should be getting ready soon.

Plants are exploding with growth. Got dozens of peppers on the jalapeños, Italian, and chili de agua. The scotch bonnet and scotch brain have a few flowers starting to bloom. Hopefully be harvesting a few jalapeños soon.

Bought the seeds labeled as chili pequin, but these look longer and skinnier than any I've seen. Did i get duped?

  Yeah, and i also topped a few a week after i transplanted them, so probably delayed growth. 

Update: most plants producing pods, but not getting super large. Not sure if I will continue to pinch or just let them go.

Week 10, cold front came through last night, got down to 47, will check in the garden tomorrow see if there was any damage. Got the first pepper of the season forming, a chili piquing. Will update next week.

Question, how much if any do you pinch flowers once outside? Should I continue to snip flowers off? I topped two plants since they moved outside due to some insect damage.

All done, remaining peppers in the ground, started cucumbers and herbs....everything went just as I planned it lol....

Three more in the ground, two more to go.

These all look good.

The jalabanero leaves looks curled and deformed, has been this way since it was young, will see if being in the soil evens it out.

The chili de agua is getting eaten by something, but only that one plant. Found this grub cutworm at the base, removed it added compost around base and watered well.

Ca Wonder doesnt look that great, loosing bottom leaves and yellowing. I applied tomato-tone and watered in good, see if it improves.

  It really just depends if i can keep the pest at bay. I bought thuricide to see if i can keep the horn worms down, and neem oil to keep the grasshoppers of my plants. If i can do that successfully, i will let them ride to the fall, or maybe make new starts new first of July and set out in August. 

It really just depends, my garden gets full sun all day no shade. I pretty much have to keep it mulched and water it daily just to keep them alive and they drop flowers like crazy. So last year I started as early as I could so that come July I could just let them die off. It really just depends...