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    Finally bit the bullet and bought a starter kit!

    Well... I finally stopped by the only home brew shop in Vancouver that seems to sell something more than "kits". I told the guy I was interested in brewing all grain in a bag and he literally thought I was off my rocker. I get the impression he is a decent guy, but is really set in his ways...
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    preservation Are these peppers good for dehydrating?

    I have an abundance of fresno's this year. 4 plants has given me more then I can eat. Same with my peperoncino's. Do these dry well? They seem to be thicker fleshed but I think they should be good? I'm already drying my habs and aji limon's (neat, the limon's stayed yellow!) but they are...
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    Ate my first half a carribean red today...

    Had my first ripe carribean red today. Picked it and was wondering what to do with it. Sliced up half into a burrito for dinner (well more like a fajita with beef and veggies, no beans or rice in it) and chowed it down. Hot. Very hot. Sweat inducing hot. Hmmmm. I think all the fresno and...
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    Bugs bugs bugs and wasted energy growing veggies.

    So I see some of my cabbages are finally ready so I pull one up. It's infested from the inside out with earwigs, who have eaten 90% of the interior leaves... Pulled up a parsnip cuz it was all wilted looking even though I'd just watered. Some sort of maggot-like infestation. Grabbed a turnip...
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    Next year = no big tomatoes.

    The mice are DEVASTATING my tom's they get a few of the cherries but I don't mind that. But they destroy anything larger. Last year I set out traps and killed 8 mice. This year I don't have the heart for it. What would you grow instead? They seem to leave most everything else alone...
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    What do you consider healthy or normal amount of booze to consume?

    For me, if I have more then 3 in an evening I am obviously trying to get drunk and not just have a good time. Of course, I still occasionally have 6 or 8 beer in an evening. That's down from once a month when I was younger to once or twice a year now. But typically I have a glass of wine or...
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    On another trip!

    Off to Washington DC tomorrow for a conference. Wonder if I can find any decent food (by decent, I mean HOT) this trip. Don't laugh, but I'm staying at the Gaylord National Hotel. Even worse, I'm sharing a room with my head sys admin for my hosting company. When I ordered the room, the...
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    sun sunscald - whole pod done for?

    I noticed a softspot on m bell pepper today... the only part of this particular pod completely exposed to sun is a lighter colour and soft. Should I just cut the pod off and let the plant try and ripen the rest or do I leave it alone? Thanks!
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    Flowering carrots?

    Uhhh. This didn't happen last year. Granted, we didn't have as much hot weather and I didn't let the carrots grow so long... picked em all tiny last year. What do I do? Does the flavour in the carrot change?
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    Cracked green tomatoes....

    All of my bigger tomato varieties are doing this. I had a ton of tomatoes set early this year, due mostly to our pretty awesome weather I think. The fruits came out, looked beautiful. Now, a few weeks later, they are all splitting in half (still growing but you can see the seed and everything...
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    Fruit set

    I know I've read about this a bunch on the forum here but my searches aren't really coming up with much. My plants are flowering a lot but no fruit is growing... Weather here has been awesome. 28-30c (82-86f) during the day, 16-20c (60-70f) at night. This isn't too hot, right? I saw AJ...
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    Kids these days

    So last night we have a crazy lightning storm with torrential, monsoon type rain. Around 2am we hear some kids on the street yelling and goofing off. The wife says I should call the cops, I say let them be cuz they're just goofing off in the rain - heck I did dumb things like that as a kid...
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    A CAJohns jerk chicken!

    Pics to come this evening once it's been cooked. Took a whole organic, free range chicken (I got it on sale for $10 cad!), cut it in half so I can do one side with the "Gentle Jerk" for my wife and the other side with the "Joltin Jerk" for me. Of course, just joltin isn't good enough for me, so...
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    So I'm heading back to Germany...

    Hamburg again, to be specific. And I'm leaving in just a few hours. Sitting here, all packed (that took 10 mins, I'm a guy), thinking I should maybe toss my CaJohn's jolokia spice 10 shaker into a ziploc bag and bring it with me. You know in Hamburg they didn't even have dried red chili's to...
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    misc Pepperoncino, italian sweet varieties - what's their production like?

    I got several of these two plants. They are between 18" and 30" tall, the shorter ones are quite a bit bushier so they seem to have roughly the same amount of flowers right now. They are all COVERED in flowers. 50+ per plant. I never picked a flower on these, thus I have 21 peppers growing...
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    So I'm in Chicago for the first time and see a Chili's

    And I think, HEY! These Americans really got it figured out. Looks like a nice casual restaurant I can take my wife n 9 month old daughter too.. We go, order dinner. Food arrives, it's decent but bland. I ask for hot sauce and all they have is Tabasco?! The server, who was kinda cool but failed...
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    When do you put your peppers out overnight?

    When temps are 50f overnight, is that warm enough or should I continue to cart these babies in and out of my garage? Thanks...
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    Defcon DeathMatch MKII on chipotle slow cooker pork soft tacos

    So I had a rough day and ate these leftovers for lunch already so I figured I owed it to myself to make it really spicy. Perusing the cupboard and fridge turned up nothing that complemented the flavour well or had enough heat to make the flavours not matter much. But then I spied the bottle of...
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    health See anything wrong with this soil mix?

    1/2 cube of hydroponic coco 1 bag local nursery brand potting soil (peat moss, compost, perlite) 1/2 bag vermiculite 1 bag compost (local nursery brand, claims to be for veggies) 1 small bag worm castings It looks and feels like a great combo. Anyone have any concerns with it? It's light...
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    Slow Cooker Chipotle Pork

    Ok so here is a recipe I kinda throw together once in a while. It's pretty smoking good so I thought I'd share. The recipe changes depending on what I have in the fridge/freezer, it's quite flexible. Here is the currently cooking concoction: 2 Pork Tenderloins 4 chipotle peppers in adobo...
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