Annie's 2014 Glog: MoA ferments

Jamison · Apr 27, 2014

Page 11! Been topping em off lately! Them plants are looking fantastic Annie! Lots and lots of garden space you have. Everything is looking awesome. You are a busy girl! I'll be checking in way more frequently from now on!!!!

annie57 · Apr 28, 2014

Devv said:
Um, I know when I mow, it's mowing weeds I no longer water the "yard", can't eat it, no one can see it, and I just don't care...LOL

The front, hoping it knocks the 95+°, almost 7PM and still 95°. Also hoping it doesn't get crazy your way. I agree, weather forecasting nowadays is more a show.

I'm a tired boy, back to work tomorrow to rest up!

You have a great week now!

Damn skippy, Scotty. "You have reached your quota of likes for the day"--and that was yesterday. I sorta favor green cement instead of "grass aka weeds"--or whirls of sand, green, purple, orange, blue in the cement--colored gravel works too.

People so concerned with mowing dang weeds, won't grow anything to eat, are not cows (well, debatable); however, cows need more nourishment than these weeds/grass/lawns could provide. However, I do have some nice clover growing around raised beds. I won't mow it! Bee and rabbit food. Pet rabbit--Harvey--munches down in that clover--got him trained to walk with me through garden, trained himself on not eating anything in there as let him eat a super when he was young--now he runs off other rabbits! Rambo Rabbit. Now if I could just get him to take dumps exclusively in gardens.

And Scotty, with a tornado watch, at least 30 mph winds, dig it: brought plants in :tear:

. I got em on tables, the cukes actually would fit back under lights, but everything else is so tall, no way--got an old "grow bulb" on in back where plants hogging two tables. Looks silly but will hold them until the deluge/winds pass in couple of days. Sad about folks already hit by twisters. You have a good week as well, babe. My grades are about ready to go. Evals this week, discussions, and a few last words: my "speech" to seniors, like, "don't leave what ya learned at cap-toss: live it, or degree doesn't mean squat."

Everybody stay safe.

Jamison said:
Page 11! Been topping em off lately! Them plants are looking fantastic Annie! Lots and lots of garden space you have. Everything is looking awesome. You are a busy girl! I'll be checking in way more frequently from now on!!!!

Hiya Jamison! Got to get you Southern "learnt-up."

TripJ (JJJesse) posted about killing green onions and lettuce in bacon grease as a sign of spring. I went a step further and "kilt" some well washed, boiled 3x in salt water, rinsed, curly dock and "poke" and mixed with green onions and lettuce. But for God'sake get some ole timer to show ya how to pick, how much, of c-dock and poke. Too late to do it now, or I wouldn't. Been too warm. Mawmaw used to say that the doctors hated it when people "et" poke and dock in spring, because they didn't need a doctor until winter (and she went on to say, as she was showing me how to pick it, boil it, "and if ya don't git it early and do what I tell ya, a-body won't need a doctor but a mortician."). She passed away last March 2013 @ 98.

Please do stop by! I love clay soil. My alternatives are . . . not; it takes to amendments well or rather, holds them. And best things one can do to amend it are structural--greensand--I know it's not sodic clay but greensand has worked for me. Course builders sand, gypsum, peat moss with lime, perlite, first year, back in 2009. Azomite is good stuff too for remineralization. Gonna plant a cover crop this fall: TripJ and Scotty got me convinced. Austrian peas, oats, clover. Last fall/winter big garden got lots of nearly composted horse manure w/stall material, sawdust, etc., coffee grounds, leaves, straw, whatever I could round up. Did NOT till in but left it all topped off with lots of leaves, straw. Past Feb. was dry when we were getting the Pecan and Black Walnut rounds--I rolled BW to side of big garden in Feb--but dry, been dry for weeks, ground hard, had to take 4WD truck, pick up rounds to split, through one small part of that big established garden. Andy, an old friend driving truck, was about bogged down before it was loaded, soil was so loose. He was, "Girl, you ain't playin' this garden is good dirt." We had to put in in 4WD to get it out, move it to side out of garden--told him not to drive on it. Small "ditches" where wheels were, but cousin ripped small bit of compaction out pretty easily. I have tons of work to do on new garden (might go peat moss, lime, perlite, and if all I can get is Black Kow, fine as it's sandy stuff, but pretty good soil as is (still clay); lots of nightcrawlers when digging out some grass yesterday. Funny; as I was moving down and shaking off topsoil from rest of clover removed, birds appreciating the digging (from safe distance. :rolleyes:

) I suppose everything gotta eat! But that area has been covered in leaves from trees for ages.

I like TripJ's idea of the "Hugelgrave." I have some rotting hardwood left over from bottom of wood pile, think maybe some KNO3 as nitrogen, grass, blood meal, bone meal, kelp meal, more wood, layer greens to browns water with compost tea. You be safe in the paths of the storms, Jamison. Please.

Devv · Apr 28, 2014

I was saddened by the storm news this morning.

Funny you're working clay one way, and I'm working it the other. Bottom line is there is a perfect mix. I want more amendments in my soil, but am pleased with the watering so far. Going 3 days (72 hours) between watering when temps were 89, 89, and 96 is a miracle here. Especially with young plants that don't have a full blown root system yet. Today was 96° here, going to see if I can go 4 days. Let them babies reach and grow nice deep roots so I can go on vacation in July. I've also started expanding the flood area so it's wider around the plants.

So I plant in ditches, are you using raised rows this year? Your issues last season seemed to be from too much rain. I'll trade in a heartbeat! The cows are NOT smiling 'round here.

Don't work too hard kettle!

GA Growhead · Apr 28, 2014

Gotta love that clay!
I'm tilling two new rows, about 50 feet long. Already added over a foot deep of leaves and pine straw collected last fall. Mixed in some organic fertilizer that has plenty microbes and some other amendments. A few rounds of aact and it will be good to go.
I did that to my main pepper garden and after the first season, the soil went from red clay to beautiful black soil. I am not tilling it this year. Tilled it the past two, so giving it a break. Will plant in with a handful of amendments in each hole and cover/mulch around the plants.
All I can say is organic matter and microbes for your new plot. That and make tall wide rows. Two rows of plants in each row. Wider equals more root space!
Being under trees I'm betting the soil is good there.
Look foward to seeing a full garden!
Hope you weather the storms too! Under a tornado watch right now here. :crazy:

annie57 · Apr 29, 2014

Devv said:
I was saddened by the storm news this morning.

Funny you're working clay one way, and I'm working it the other. Bottom line is there is a perfect mix. I want more amendments in my soil, but am pleased with the watering so far. Going 3 days (72 hours) between watering when temps were 89, 89, and 96 is a miracle here. Especially with young plants that don't have a full blown root system yet. Today was 96° here, going to see if I can go 4 days. Let them babies reach and grow nice deep roots so I can go on vacation in July. I've also started expanding the flood area so it's wider around the plants.

So I plant in ditches, are you using raised rows this year? Your issues last season seemed to be from too much rain. I'll trade in a heartbeat! The cows are NOT smiling 'round here.

Don't work too hard kettle!

I don't think you really want our weather right now, Scotty. But they did cancel classes today, doing emergency Tor-runs with kids in dorms this morning. Trying to convince my parents to come over and spend night in middle bedroom in my basement tonight. Safest place. Stayed up all morning/night when they announced tornadoes touching down near Knoxville, TN and Maggie Valley, NC. (Not knowing how I'd get parents here.) Lowered boom on 'rents this morning to get over here by mid-afternoon. It was freaky hearing the wind and seeing lightening around 5 am from storms 200 miles away, whirling off those cells in Great Smokies. Rain and thunder/lightening eventually here. Just hope temps stay LOW today, no clearing, and to south/east of us, no "buoyant air masses." I've learned more about dang tornado formation than I care to know. I feel for rural Alabama, Mississippi--areas that Weather Channel barely mentioned except to say, "Big debris pattern near b-f." Really? PEOPLE LIVE THERE! Really callous attitude when it comes to rural areas. This morning, they run over to "b-f" and report tragedy. Effers.

Given that I've have to wet vac basement, if we keep power, all night long tonight but that's no big deal (and if it floods without power, it does).

Whew. Just tired--no sleep and scared for my stubborn parents--on to soil, no; all clay is not created equally and I admire our efforts in tackling it and ~~loving~~ cursing, loving results! :dance:

Still looking for Ram's Horn for ya (and me), Scott. Be good fall crop. I've not forgotten ya on that; just not gone to get them myself with focus on new garden space and now this weather/parents next couple days. I baby my plants? I brought them in yesterday, put some on germ table that's been cleared out, on tables, whatever. :rofl:

GA Growhead said:
Gotta love that clay!
I'm tilling two new rows, about 50 feet long. Already added over a foot deep of leaves and pine straw collected last fall. Mixed in some organic fertilizer that has plenty microbes and some other amendments. A few rounds of aact and it will be good to go.
I did that to my main pepper garden and after the first season, the soil went from red clay to beautiful black soil. I am not tilling it this year. Tilled it the past two, so giving it a break. Will plant in with a handful of amendments in each hole and cover/mulch around the plants.
All I can say is organic matter and microbes for your new plot. That and make tall wide rows. Two rows of plants in each row. Wider equals more root space!
Being under trees I'm betting the soil is good there.
Look foward to seeing a full garden!
Hope you weather the storms too! Under a tornado watch right now here.

2 new rows, Jason? Why does that not surprise me?

What ferts did you use? I wonder about those microbes they say they put in there. But won't argue with your results! :party:

I have about 12 cu. feet horsey doo-doo/stable stuff, sand etc. that's slow composted over winter, but is composted as I hit it with blood and kelp meals end of summer, got it hot for couple weeks. Was gonna amend new garden yesterday w/it but decided to cover the stuff because of rain. AACT is critical.

I just want to get all Maple roots out and axed away, dug in some Azomite, lime, greensand, gypsum yesterday--think have all big roots--the 46" diameter stump is 30 yards away but roots keep surprising me in new pepper plot. Great worm activity in it, however. Digging back in the decaying leaves, taking them deeper. But then again might tell my slack cousin, who could have ripped better, that all the roots are gone and be prepared to buy new tines for that tractor's rototiller in case not :rofl:

.

These storms are no joke, Jason and they aren't over by long shot. After being concerned about parents, I thought about Jamison, Trip J, Alabama Jack, Adam, and you. Please be careful, dear.

Devv · Apr 29, 2014

Hope you're safe with the storms, as well as everyone else, Dad and my brother both live in Myrtle Beach and they seem to be in the mix.

Hang in there!

annie57 · Apr 30, 2014

Devv said:
Hope you're safe with the storms, as well as everyone else, Dad and my brother both live in Myrtle Beach and they seem to be in the mix.

Hang in there!

Hey babe!

Yeah, bit of a mess "down east," worse than here (so far). Hope your kin don't live on the "Neon Strand." Last time I was down there--Cherry Grove--was 2004--family thing in summer couldn't get out of. Astoundingly sad driving down King's Hwy at the sheer amounts of neon, cheap consumer tricks. I think they turned the Pavilion at Myrtle into a meth lab. On way to work, if go Center St. in Hickory, dudes yell, "CRACK!" as go by. Cops know, of course, but afraid. Surely, vis a vis that Pavilion, cops know and are on take. I was shocked for 5 min, then over shock, went back to cottages. :crazy:

Really hope your family members are safe! Rough place to be in storms.

My oldest bro turned 16, had car, got him a job bussing tables (and peeling shrimp in 110 F :lol:

) while I played covers for a*hole tourists when I was 18. Poor kid. We got stoned, drunk one night, storming like hell and hail, HE decided to "ride around." (I couldn't let him go alone as Mama would've killed me.) Got into Conway and saw this funnel cloud approaching . . . run, sh*t, go blind, so he went up toward Florence (at my insistence). Water up to doors, bro was already mechanikin,' got to higher ground near a FDept; he dried off/out distributor; first time I ever felt the warmth of a lightening strike. Straight down lightening. They let us sleep it off in FD. Made coffee, they'd gone to clear rubble next morning, do what they could, flattened Conway, with a note: "IDIOT YOUNGINS!" He was thrilled he got to be "in that." Got back to cottage and he was calling all his friends, excited. :rolleyes:

Until Mama called. I went down to beach. Figured since he thought he was grown, he could lie to her.

Again, hope they stay safe; this weather is for "idiot youngins." Trip J and I have declared it: we're having a dry summer. Can put water in, but cannot take it out. Again, everybody stay safe! Thank you, Scott.

Barley-pop57 · May 1, 2014

Hi Annie,

I do feel for you guys down south, as you get both hurricanes and tornadoes. Here in Iowa we get alot of tornadoes unless we are in drought mode. Also we get winters from hell up here---temps & snow amounts. I guess no matter where one lives we have to put up with mother nature as I don't think there is anywhere safe. Enough of heavy heart stuff.....

So what is the newest going on in your neighborhood ??? Need pics of your garden too, as it has been awhile. Stay safe and have fun, my friend.

annie57 · May 2, 2014

Barley-pop57 said:
Hi Annie,

I do feel for you guys down south, as you get both hurricanes and tornadoes. Here in Iowa we get alot of tornadoes unless we are in drought mode. Also we get winters from hell up here---temps & snow amounts. I guess no matter where one lives we have to put up with mother nature as I don't think there is anywhere safe. Enough of heavy heart stuff.....

So what is the newest going on in your neighborhood ??? Need pics of your garden too, as it has been awhile. Stay safe and have fun, my friend.

Thanks, Mikey-JerkyMon! We didn't get as much wet or mess as "they said." Others, man, are recovering from storms in parts of EasternNC. Just working a** off on new garden plot and prepping for tillage of both gardens with gypsum and compost/amendments. :dance:

Pics to come soon. Thanks sweetie and hope you have fun! :party:

Jamison · May 2, 2014

Hey Annie! Got lucky with the storms fortunately. Tupelo MS however which is only 45 minutes from me got absolutely hammered with a tornado. Along with AL. It was def a bit scary for sure. My kid was absolutely freaking out with the loud ass thunder and lightning bolts flying everywhere. I even brought all the pepper plants in. Loving all your advice and sense of humor. I'd absolutely love to hang out with you one day and throw a few back and listen to some of your stories. I guarantee that would be an awesome time! Hope you have an awesome weekend!

Jamison

stickman · May 3, 2014

Hi miz Annie, hope things have leveled out for you by now. Extreme weather is "interesting" to talk about, but mostly nobody wants to live through it if they can help it... with the possible exception of your little bro'...

Are you about done with soil prep yet? Best of luck with this year's garden!

HillBilly Jeff · May 3, 2014

Garden plots are looking nice and the peppers are really looking nice.

JJJessee · May 3, 2014

Right, "dry" summer, agreed.

Won't have to tip-toe into the garden to avoid getting hit by exploding tomatoes either.

Our clay should be ready to work again by Monday.

annie57 · May 3, 2014

Jamison said:
Hey Annie! Got lucky with the storms fortunately. Tupelo MS however which is only 45 minutes from me got absolutely hammered with a tornado. Along with AL. It was def a bit scary for sure. My kid was absolutely freaking out with the loud ass thunder and lightning bolts flying everywhere. I even brought all the pepper plants in. Loving all your advice and sense of humor. I'd absolutely love to hang out with you one day and throw a few back and listen to some of your stories. I guarantee that would be an awesome time! Hope you have an awesome weekend!

Jamison

Yeah, Jamison; I watched that Tupelo sadness. I'm sorry your kid was scared and thought of you, Bama Jack, TripJ, Adam, Jason, SSurf/Allen . . . and Jamie's area got my attention later. I was going through my THP addresses (need yours, btw; PM me, please), thinking good thoughts, praying for everybody. Interesting, how after family, old friends, think about people on here who we've never met, concerned with y'all, your families, and peppers. Need to remedy that (so we worry more?) but it's still better to love and to lose than not to love at all. Strange bonds we have, since most people can't pronounce Pimenta de Neyde and add "x Bhut; "Bhut Orange Copenhagen" (wish wish one seedling had lived, a remiss watering event) . . . but we're not weird; just have effective, natural pain killers at our disposal @ end or sometime in season, great stuff to make powder blends, salt infusions, and sauces. Gee. What's wrong with rest of population?

A meet-up sounds great to me! Let's make it hurricane season :rofl:

.

stickman said:
Hi miz Annie, hope things have leveled out for you by now. Extreme weather is "interesting" to talk about, but mostly nobody wants to live through it if they can help it... with the possible exception of your little bro'...

Are you about done with soil prep yet? Best of luck with this year's garden!

Hey, Rick. Am creating new pepper plot slowly as in "God created the world slowly." Nope: rumor has it, 6 days and been much more than that :rolleyes:

.Thanks sweetie; thanks for ~~turning me on~~ addicting me to Gochus.

My really young nephews, bro's sons, like 11/12 yrs. old asked me once if it was "normal" for people to watch Se7en, The Shining, Body Double, Speed (and others) to make them sleepy. (I was concerned they even knew what BDouble was.) Bro used to sit up at night after everybody went to bed and watch that stuff to calm him in order to sleep: I told them that I loaned him my copy of The Exorcist when he was 13 and he woke everybody up, claiming that his bed was shaking. I told them it was like some people become immune to snake bites if they survive venom. :rofl:

Garden's about prepped, hon. Just have to level--found more "horizontal trees" (easier to whack up when vertical) past couple evenings, like 30' across width which is entire bed, 3.5 diameter roots off that Maple--I don't think there are more now/hope not--but also (and so glad he missed this when ripped it), a concreted fence post that "conpny" sunk in wrong place--outta line with rest of fence post/concrete; popped that out last night. Angle grinder to t-post will make "version" of "Texas toothpick," use another t-post to leverage up, and sledge to concrete; smdh.

HillBilly Jeff said:
Garden plots are looking nice and the peppers are really looking nice.

Thanks, Jeff! You have some monster plants!

JJJessee said:
Right, "dry" summer, agreed.

Won't have to tip-toe into the garden to avoid getting hit by exploding tomatoes either.

Our clay should be ready to work again by Monday.

Good to hear can work it by Monday, TripJ! Yeah, the exploding (fallen, swimming, mater). Imagine had they been watermelons. :shocked:

"Dry it is; dry it shall be." :pray:

Jamison · May 3, 2014

It's funny how we worry about people on THP. I always refer to people on here as my buddy from wherever i.e. my buddy Jason in ATL and stuff like that. We're def a tight knit family of growers on here and I wouldn't want it any other way at all! Even tho I've never met anyone from THP I feel like I know them really well. I think it's def cool! Glad everyone made it through that round of storms, and am not looking forward to the next round at all. Have a great and productive weekend Annie!!!

Devv · May 3, 2014

I too was worried and wondering how everybody would do in the storms.

Some scarey weather every spring, I hate hearing and reading about the losses.

Everyone stay safe!

meatfreak · May 3, 2014

Bit late reply but your plants look really great, Annie! Love those thick stems, how did you get them so thick already?

stc3248 · May 3, 2014

Whole lotta room...and a whole lotta work! That variegated Fatalii has me stumped as well??? Did you have any Fish Peppers growing last season?

PaulG · May 4, 2014

A Fatali x Fish sounds like a winner :rofl:

Always something unusual going on at Annie's farm!
As well as lots of hard work!

annie57 · May 9, 2014

"Hello, stranger; what's a nice guy (gal) doing in a place like this?" Some fool said that to me once in a bar and I said, "Getting ready to get you drunk and take your credit cards. I might even let ya live. Too." (I didn't feel like being messed with.)

Updates: after, ripping (twice), discing (twice), and rototilling, the new garden plot, 50 x 50 or thereabouts, has peppers in it: mostly supers and habs/MoAs upfront. There was once a large sandbox in this area where chain-L fence was. I now about have Scott's sandy, dry soil there. Ordering a t-tape system today. Still clay "based" but . . . getting this thing remotely ready . . . has nearly killed me. My cousin knows how to sit on a tractor seat. I know how to pull roots I had not already axed up (easier when they're vertical) out of ripper tines. And that I did. (Twice.) Then, after all that ripping, I found deep underground, not a root, but some idiot putting in that fence had poured concrete out of the fencing line. So, hells bells: got the "Texas toothpick," sledges, etc., got it up and thanked got his/my ripper tines missed or sprung back. Literally, I have nearly killed my ass but I will bet anybody any amount of money ain't no roots coming from any tree in this area. I'll post a pic later of just what I dug out and combined pile of what ripper tines got--not the big-boy roots. Abe Lincoln got nothing on me in a chopping contest. On to happier, less painful, indeed JOYOUS pics/realities.

Shot of overall new Hell Garden (literally both in work and types of peppers in it with cukes on north end); Aji Chuncho, Chocolate Bhuts, Nagas, Black Nagas, King Nagas, Tabascos, Peach Bhuts, Yellow Bhuts, White Bhuts, Jay's Peach B-Ghosts, PDN x Bhuts, White 7s, Yellow 7s, YMorugas, YBrains, CARDIs, 7 PBrown x Naga, Douglahs, Choc Scorps, Bubblegums, Yellow Jonahs, Red Jonahs, Butch T, Yellow Primos, Orange Primos, Scott's Funky Reapers (with some pod setting, weird but love it), Burgundy 7 (from Hillbilly Jeff), Madballz, Choc Barrackpores, Fatalii Yellows, Bonda Ma Jacques, Bahamian Goat, Brazilian Starfish, Harold St. Barts x West Indies, Ramon's JA Reds, JA Hot Choc, Choc Habs, Elongated Choc Habs, White Habs, Choc Hand-Grenades, JA Red Mushrooms, Bonnets: Foodarama, TFM, Market, Brown, MoA yellows, couple MoA reds:

Some closer-uppers; MoA/Bonnet/Hab (parial) shot row:

Partial of the last (east) row of bhuts/some Trinis etc:

I just know these are supers in the following because didn't label pics:

That's 6 rows 50' long, "log-free."

Onto some nons: 55 maters, 3 eggplant, more maters (I HATE to plant tomatoes and I don't trench, because maybe I'm an idiot). Viva Italia, San Marzano, Lemon Boy, Kelloggs's Breakfast, Black Krim, Sungold cherry, Big Boy, lots of Brandy Boy, lots of varieties of Beefs, Champion II, Mountain Pride, etc, etc. The white stuff is chunky perlite, because neighbor has a drain that fills and and I know where it comes into garden with torrential downpours. Experience from last summer. This soil amended is clay but is holding moisture big time from OM put in for years. After no rain, cuz couldn't till it until Tues:

More peppers, after the bells, poblano, pasilla, Goat's Weed, Orange Thai, Gochu, Aleppo, Urfa Biber, Big Jim Numex:

Seasoning; GA Blacks, Trin Scorp Sweets, Tobago, Yellow Bouquet, Trin Perfume, Peruvian Serlano, Fish, Aji Limon, Hawaiian Sweet Hot, and some Padron (because I miss the harvests in Spain). Have left space to create summer/winter squash mounds, Bush Blue Lake Beans, maybe some corn, and okra, (since I've not axed up enough root :rofl:

):

And if wondering (sure, ya are! :liar

: ), where all the purple jals, jals (including Biker Billy), cayennes, serranos, they in two raised beds, I missed those pics this morning, because I got all this in since Tues. Fairly, since Monday afternoon, since I dug and amended 72 pepper holes in new "Scott's-alike sand garden" and 30 some holes in raised beds. It was sort of a supersoil event with compost--love the biochar from banking fires overnight last winter in compost bins (ash dust went on established garden), Azomite, a little blood meal, lots of bone meal, greensand (?), kelp meal, soft rock phosphate, plant-tone, "mater magic" (see organic H-Depot event with calcium).

AND Monday evening neighbor's SIL was on deck and said, "I bet you won't plant them gardens in that nothin' bikini." Well, with work-boots on, I did. Neighbor took pics for proof, and no, you will not see my thong bikini as* bent over (and getting BURNED) 100 buck bet and yesterday afternoon, I collected. Now, I've been out there, chopping roots but in camo pants/shorts, t-shirt or sports bra, but not been in lots of sun--as I collected bet--100 bucks buy me vast majority that drip for "Scott's-alike sand garden," I'd killed 3 aloe plants for the burn. I mean BURN. Sunscreen? I never wear that stuff (because maybe I'm an idiot). Hope it rains as is called for. Thanks for looking; please post your most STUPID garden moments, because that bikini had to be my most utterly dingbat . . . Slept on pads coated with aloe last night, but the Cherokee in me makes it just copper-dark today. :cool:

Jamison said:
It's funny how we worry about people on THP. I always refer to people on here as my buddy from wherever i.e. my buddy Jason in ATL and stuff like that. We're def a tight knit family of growers on here and I wouldn't want it any other way at all! Even tho I've never met anyone from THP I feel like I know them really well. I think it's def cool! Glad everyone made it through that round of storms, and am not looking forward to the next round at all. Have a great and productive weekend Annie!!!

Yeah, my ex was jealous (temporarily) of the men on here. Very stupid; but it is like we know one another (but not in biblical sense nor do I desire that knowledge). Projection: he was cheating with a female golfing buddy. Besides, he had super-soft hands. I don't trust a man or woman who doesn't (from time to time) have dirt or grease on their hands. I trust callouses: means one might be doing something! I don't think we're going to, in this part of country, have another round of storms like that. :pray:

Devv said:
I too was worried and wondering how everybody would do in the storms.

Some scarey weather every spring, I hate hearing and reading about the losses.

Everyone stay safe!

Me too, Scotty--sad--and not much more can say about it.

Safe? I planted everything except summer/winter squash and beans since Monday. :crazy:

meatfreak said:
Bit late reply but your plants look really great, Annie! Love those thick stems, how did you get them so thick already?

Fans, Stefan! Lots of fan action. Take care, sweetie!

stc3248 said:
Whole lotta room...and a whole lotta work! That variegated Fatalii has me stumped as well??? Did you have any Fish Peppers growing last season?

Shane, m'love! Whole lotta work. Yeah, I grew Fish but, they look like Fish since been in ground and Fatalii is going normal. Just a thing that's passing fast since roots found some soil. Thanks, sugar.

PaulG said:
A Fatali x Fish sounds like a winner

Always something unusual going on at Annie's farm!
As well as lots of hard work!

That would be a kicker, huh, Paul? Serious shellfish seasoning pepper! But as told Shane, it's going normal since in ground, while Fish are staying variegated foliage. Take care, dear. Will visit glogs more when butt cheeks are less tender (see above updated post).