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Bodeen's 2013 Grow _-_ Love at First Sting

Not actually starting this yet. Just trying to get my thoughts together on what and how many I will be planting of everything. There is the possibility that there will be no cows here next year and the pastures will be made into corn fields. This would mean the barn lot will be free and empty. It grows some of the best grass on the farm and the barn does have a well and a pump already there. Could it be garden number 3??? Also contemplating enlarging the back garden again.

Seed list so far

Hot Peppers

7 Pod Yellow: One Plant
7 Pod: One Plant
7 Pod Brain Strain: Three Plants
7 Pod Burgandy: Three Plants
7 Pod Chaguanas: One plant
Aji Amarillo: One Plant
Aji Chinchi Amarillo: One Plant
Assam: Three plants
Bhut Jolokia: Three Plants
Bhut Jolokia, Brown: Three Plants.
Bhut Jolokia, Chocolate: Three Plants
Bhut Jolokia, Peach: Three Plants.
Bhut Jokolia, Yellow: Three plants
Big Bomb Hybrid: Three plants
Biggie Chile Hybrid: One plant
Black Hungarian: One Plant
Budapest Hybrid: Three Plants
Cayenne (Thick): One Plant
Cayenne (Chocolate): Six Plants, with one over winter
Cayenne (Orange): One Plant
Chapeu Du Frade (Bishop's Hat): One Plant.
Chenzo Hybrid: One Plant
Cherry Bomb Hybrid: Three Plants
Czechoslovakian Black: One Plant
Fatalii: Three Plant
Fatalii, Red: One Plant
Fatalii x Savina: Three Plants
Fish: One plant.
Fresno: One Plant
Habanero Chocolate: Three plants
Habanero Orange: One plant
Habanero Peach: One Plant
Habanero Red: One plant
Habanero White: One plant
Habanero Yellow: One Plant
Hawaiian Sweet Hot: One Plant
Jalapeno, Biker Billy: One plant
Jalapeno, Goliath: One plant
Jalapeno, Purple: One plant
Jamaican Yellow: One plant
Lemon Drop: One plant.
Paper Lantern: One plant.
Peter Pepper (Orange): One Plant
Rain Forest: One Plant
Red Savina: One plant
Sante Fe Grande: Three plants.
Serrano Tamp: Two to three plants.
Thai Giant: One Plant
Tobago: One plant
Trinidad Scorpion Butch T: One plant
Trinidad Scorpion Green: Three Plants
Trinidad Moruga: Three plants
Trinidad Red Douglah: Three plants
Trinidad Douglah Chocolate: Three plants
Trinidad Scorpion Yellow: One Plant
White Scorpion Tongue: One Plant
Yellow Thai: One plant

Sweet Peppers

Jimmy Nardello: Six plants
Douce D`Espagne: Six plants
Lipstick: Two plants
Sweet Goliath: Three plants
Atris Hybrid: Three plants
Gypsy Hybrid: Three plants
La Rouge Royale: Three plants
Golden Treasure: Three plants
Mini Bell Red: Two Plants
 
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Nice update.  Are those cayennes ripe or do they eventually turn red?
 
Funny how taste works.  I prefer both corn and beans frozen.  For me, canning is best for juices and pickled (just about) anything.
 
Sawyer said:
Nice update.  Are those cayennes ripe or do they eventually turn red?
 
Funny how taste works.  I prefer both corn and beans frozen.  For me, canning is best for juices and pickled (just about) anything.
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The purple cayenne peppers will eventually turn red when fully ripe.
 
 
 
My hybrid yellow zukes....Burpee is getting a letter lol.  This is one of the better ones.  Some are all green lol
 
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From Burpee Today
 
Thank you for contacting Burpee and for the picture.

We are sending your packet information to quality control for investigation. In the meantime, I can either refund your money, or you can pick another squash seed. I have attached a link to the seeds:
 
Nice update!
 
Glad you're getting a pull,more too follow!
 
Interesting about the orange lipstick pepper.
 
Tasted my first Yellow Jalapeno and it is hotter than I thought it would be.  I'd place it above the purple as the purple heat varies so much, and just about the goliath.
 
Black Hungarian is gorgeous in the inside with a really nice flavor for a hot.  No noticeable heat.
 
First maters of the season.  Chicken breast salad tonight!!!
 
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Nice harvest Jeff and congrats on the Chinense pods setting!  It looks like you got a nice spread of supers there to compliment that nice Choc Cayenne!  Gonna be some hot food in your future!!
 
Got the chocolates drying as I type.  With squirrel season right around the corner, there will be some good spicy dumplings coming around soon.
 
Wonderful garden harvests, food shots, and great pods, Bodeen!
 
Red Sails lettuce is my favorite by far!
 
Hot dry week and I am picking pickles daily.  About a dozen a day that the last two days. Put up a gallon of refrigerator pickles today.  When the National Pickling pickles were planted, I ran out of seeds to do the back fence.  Since I wouldn't have the time to order more to come in and couldn't find any locally, I went with Boston Pickling.  Looking like shorter pickles and they yellow belly faster.  Taste good though.
 
Chicken breast salad last night had 6 kinds of peppers in it...explosion of flavor.  Tomatoes tasted store bought and forced ripe.  Hope that changes lol.
 
The next gallon of refrigerator pickles will get the peach habanero in it. Excited to try it.
 
Had fried pork tenderloin tonight for dinner.  Used the same breading mix as I do my walleye.  Same lemon drop powder.  I taste no heat in the fish, but the pork has a nice warmth to it.  Second time I have noticed this and I have no idea why.
 
Condor's Beak is an awesome looking plant.  Great poddage.  Just not sure what I am going to do with the pods.  
 
Currently waiting on tomatoes to get ripe to make some eye popping salsa.
 
Been too warm to do any picture taking, but I might get some this evening.
 
Blackberries are starting to pop.  Main crop is a week away, but I should be able to pick a cobbler's worth tomorrow.
 
Happy growing all.
 
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Biggie Chilies are coming along well.
 
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Budapest Peppers are hanging.
 
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Czech looks a lot like the Hungarians.  Will have to taste test this one soon.
 
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After having a horrible start and not looking like it was going to make it, the Hawaiian Sweet Hot is setting pods and looking like a pepper plant.
 
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Lemon drop is bushing like mad and is loaded.  Won't be short any powder here.
 
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Perfume is ready with some more pods.  Looks like I will have to store these until I have enough to powder.
 
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Rainforest is kicking out some pods.  Curious to try these.
 
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I think I was right, one Thai will be enough.
 
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A couple shots of one of my TS plants.
 
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Local grocery had bone in pork loin roast on sale for 99 cents a pound.  I picked up a few, then let one simmer 24 hours in a crock with garlic, ginger, and some fresh cayenne peppers.
 
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First picking of blackberries today.  Next picking should be huge.  Break in the heatwave coming, so pie should be made this weekend,
 
 
 
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Nice looking loin and bowl of berries.  My blackberries have been ripening for about a week now.  I just pick and eat my fill when I'm out there.  The rest are going to the birds or whatever.  At least they don't seem to be getting wrapped up in Japanese beetles.
 
Sawyer said:
Nice looking loin and bowl of berries.  My blackberries have been ripening for about a week now.  I just pick and eat my fill when I'm out there.  The rest are going to the birds or whatever.  At least they don't seem to be getting wrapped up in Japanese beetles.
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Bean beetles hit here about 2-3 weeks ago.  They were on some of the raspberries.  I don't think I could pick all my blackberries if  wanted to.  There is about 20 acres of them out in the woods.
 
That's a lot of berries.  I've confined the thorny ones to a patch about ten or twelve feet across.  I've got some thornless ones, too, but the bamboo is crowding them.  I need to mount a rescue operation.
 
Sawyer said:
That's a lot of berries.  I've confined the thorny ones to a patch about ten or twelve feet across.  I've got some thornless ones, too, but the bamboo is crowding them.  I need to mount a rescue operation.
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 Have about 15 acres of pine trees behind the house.  It wasn't good for farming, so my dad planted them back in the day.  They were thick as anything when I was a kid.  You could walk in the middle of them at noon and it would be almost dark.  They were planted with a machine, so the rows were all evenly spaced.
 
For about 20 years now they have been dying out, but new volunteer ones have been coming up.  Everywhere there isn't a pine tree there are tons of berry plants.  Lots of hardwood trees are populating the area as well, so it is turning back to native.  Love it back there.
 
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