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Thought I had replied to this a while back! Anyway, thanks to everyone for their suggestions. Honestly, I would rather deal with the ants than use something that might make my produce unsafe to eat, so I went with the spinosad. It works. The nests disappear and I will be ant-free for at least a...

Hello all, Looking for ways to get rid of fire ants in my raised bed. I've used diatomaceous earth and all it does is move the little buggers to a different section. I've also got mulch down, which hides where they move to until I pull up a weed in their area and suddenly all hell breaks loose...

This year, I grew datils both from a lineage I got while on a trip back to St. Augustine and the Baker Creek free datils. My experience was that the Baker Creek datils were better than I had feared, definitely worth using in hot sauces, but I'm going to stick with my true datils. The Baker Creek...

I have two types of datils growing this year. The first comes from a lineage of 3 datil plants I brought back from St. Augustine on my last visit a few years ago. They are not growing well this year - even the overwintered plant. My datils have always been 4-5 feet tall in 5 gal pots, but now...

Yeah, that's my best guess, too, just weird that that's the only pepper (and only plant period) that it happened to, and in a raised bed that should have better drainage. Trying to get some more seedlings started in hopes that I can get a little bit of a late harvest with it and then overwinter...

Hello all! Looking for spicy recipes for veggies and legumes (beans, lentils, etc). I'm always looking for new ideas and these categories tend to be the hardest to find. While I don't need vegetarian or vegan recipes, I am looking for meatless recipes (tasty meat recipes are always easy to...

I wonder if that could have been my issue. It was growing fine until we got a lot of rain. I wouldn't think it would have been enough to cause issues, especially in a raised bed, but who knows?!

Thank you for your thoughts. Did you think you were overwatering or underwatering them?

Hello all, Anyone have any experience with buena mulata peppers? Do they tend to be unthrifty? Sensitive to sunlight or excess water? I'm trying to figure out why my other pepper plants (volante peach cross, datil, Baker Creek "datil", Thai, sugar rush peach) are thriving but both of my buena...

I guess I need a better picture of the "lovely purple stripes" for my profile 😁 Seriously, tho, I probably took a hundred pictures of the purple forming on the peppers the first year I grew them. I'd heard about it but never seen it before.

Thanks for this thread! I got free datil seeds from Baker Creek. I decided to plant some of those as well as some of the seeds I've been saving from a lineage of datil peppers I bought last visit to St. Aug (used to live there many moons ago - my profile pic is from a datil pepper in that first...

Weirdly, the very first time I ate cilantro, it tasted overwhelmingly of soap! And yet, I've never tasted soap in cilantro again. I have never heard of anyone else who has both tasted and not tasted the soap in cilantro. I feel for those who taste the soap, because that's AWFUL.

Thanks for the warning! My source for oregano has been a friend's garden, so I've seen how it can move around (though not as bad as mint, I think!) Alas, I just moved about 40 min away from her, so close enough to snag a starter but not do a regular harvest.

Good to hear! I'll just be prepared for constant whittling.

Oooh, that is tempting! My original plan was to rip a bit of oregano out of my friend's garden (I've been able to successfully reroot it before), but I am always curious to try new and interesting things.

Hello all, I've been absent from the forum but still plodding along with a few peppers. This year I am getting a raised bed in a community garden and am very excited to be growing 4-5 types of peppers. I wanted to add a few herbs to the garden as a barrier between my peppers and legumes (I've...

If you have a 2nd box, I'd like it.

Hey Chris! Just wanted to say thanks again for your offer! I planted 6 each of the volante peach, black Thai, and dark Thai that you sent. 4 of each of the Thais came up (though 2 of the black Thai seem "trapped" in their seed capsule - they don't seem to be growing or pulling their leaves out...

Well, she's pretty small now. I pruned her down to about 12-18" that day, and now she's about 8-9". Went back to my friend's place today. Turns out the ants were living in the 5 gal bucket, so I ripped her out of there and just committed to the bonchi. Frost is nowhere in sight, so I have some...

Hello all,   So I know I'm being sentimental here, but I have to ask. I have 3 pepper plants, all datils. The plan was to try to "hibernate" one over the winter to regrow next spring, and turn 2 into bonchi.  I had cut back on visiting my plants, going over every 2-3 days, with the cooler...