Hello again. Your favorite badger-based sauce guy is back with a new glog for 2022. You may have noticed the lack of updates on my last thread. What happened is the sheep got through my totally inadequate fence and ate all my plants. About 900 of them. It was an unmitigated disaster. I was so pissed I just gave up on the glog. I still wound up with quite a lot of sauce from my other spots, 16 carboys or so. Having learned nothing from last year, I decided to double the number of plants this year, and put up a better fence. Here's the breakdown:
I started all the seeds on March 6th, about a month later than last year. I was hoping to avoid the plants growing into the lights before I got them outside. At this point I've got about 1/3rd in the ground, it's still ongoing.
Recent picture for the front page of the glog.
Fence posts. Notice the crappy fence in the background. I thought sheep are stupid, right? They'll see a fence and just turn around, like a roomba. Not so. They busted through several times. I'd patch it up then they'd find a new weak spot. They're like the raptors in Jurassic Park. After the 3rd time I realized it was hopeless. The plants had been pretty much eaten down to nubs.
March 12th.
March 14th.
March 17th. The plants in the middle are curry trees.
March 21st.
March 31st.
April 9th.
The new shelf, same design as the other one. I needed both for all the plants once I potted them up into 3" pots.
April 19th. After potting up. I didn't have enough of those nice 6 bulb t5 fixtures so I used a bunch of my old shop lights to fill in.
The curry trees. I need to get these outside in the next few days.
Some close ups.
April 25th, seasoning peppers.
Ghosts.
May 1st.
Gate for the new fence. It came pre-rusted.
May 7th.
The cover crop at one of my spots.
Working on the new fence.
May 10th. All the plants outside to harden off.
May 12th.
Saw this guy at one of the other spots.
May 14th. These are all chocolate habs.
May 14th. One of the community garden spots. Nothing but yellow 7 pots here.
May 14th.
May 15th. The fence finished.
May 16th community garden. These plants are all doing really well.
More yellow 7 pots.
May 19th. They're really going nuts since I got them outside.
I'll be back with more updates as the season progresses. On the business side, I actually made a profit last year! About $2k. So that was nice. I'm still in the process of bottling the 2022 sauce but I already have the new stuff up on the site. The yellow 7 pot sauce turned out amazing as always. I'll probably do another giveaway when I get time.
Code:
ID variety num plants
1. 2017 yellow 7 pots 650
2. 2021 yellow 7 pots 300
3. 2018 yellow 7 pots 300
4. chocolate habs 400
5. og ghosts 300
6. reapers 100
7. seasoning peppers 100I started all the seeds on March 6th, about a month later than last year. I was hoping to avoid the plants growing into the lights before I got them outside. At this point I've got about 1/3rd in the ground, it's still ongoing.
Recent picture for the front page of the glog.
Fence posts. Notice the crappy fence in the background. I thought sheep are stupid, right? They'll see a fence and just turn around, like a roomba. Not so. They busted through several times. I'd patch it up then they'd find a new weak spot. They're like the raptors in Jurassic Park. After the 3rd time I realized it was hopeless. The plants had been pretty much eaten down to nubs.
March 12th.
March 14th.
March 17th. The plants in the middle are curry trees.
March 31st.
April 9th.
The new shelf, same design as the other one. I needed both for all the plants once I potted them up into 3" pots.
April 19th. After potting up. I didn't have enough of those nice 6 bulb t5 fixtures so I used a bunch of my old shop lights to fill in.
The curry trees. I need to get these outside in the next few days.
Some close ups.
April 25th, seasoning peppers.
Ghosts.
May 1st.
Gate for the new fence. It came pre-rusted.
May 7th.
The cover crop at one of my spots.
Working on the new fence.
May 10th. All the plants outside to harden off.
May 12th.
Saw this guy at one of the other spots.
May 14th. These are all chocolate habs.
May 14th. One of the community garden spots. Nothing but yellow 7 pots here.
May 14th.
May 15th. The fence finished.
May 16th community garden. These plants are all doing really well.
More yellow 7 pots.
May 19th. They're really going nuts since I got them outside.
I'll be back with more updates as the season progresses. On the business side, I actually made a profit last year! About $2k. So that was nice. I'm still in the process of bottling the 2022 sauce but I already have the new stuff up on the site. The yellow 7 pot sauce turned out amazing as always. I'll probably do another giveaway when I get time.
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