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Bold Badger 2024

Salutations mon amises. I have returned.

So this year I'm scaling way back, mostly because I have too much sauce still aging from last year. I don't have enough empty carboys for everything if I grew another 1500 plants, so I cut it back to about 300. All chocolate habs and yellow 7 pots. I started seeds planning to have more yellows than chocolates, but the winds of fortune and bad germination left me with the opposite.

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Started on 02/25


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Germination on 03/03

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More germination on 03/04

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03/14

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Potted up on 03/31

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Bottling some berry sauce on 04/04

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Bottling some yellow 7 pot 04/06

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Bottling curry sauce 04/06

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Plants 04/08

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Plants 04/21

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Moved outside 04/30

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Plants 05/11

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Preparing the soil. I cashed in all my compost this year. Four or 5 years worth of leaves and watermelon rinds and the like, and several truck loads of that horse manure from last year. It wound up paying off (see below). Here I dug out the holes for the plants and filled them in with pretty much pure compost, which everyone told me was a bad idea. They say the roots will grow through the compost then just stop at the pre-existing soil. Time will tell if that is indeed the case. The soil here was already pretty good so I don't think it'll be a problem.

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Plants 05/18

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Got a pile of wood chips from the tree trimmers. This shall join the melange of my compost pile.

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My ghetto ramp for getting the tiller in the truck

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After tilling at the community garden. This is one of 4 spots there. I put all the yellow 7 pots here and filled in the remainder with more chocolate habs.

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Plants in at the big spot 05/28. These are all chocolate habs.

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Plants in at the community garden 06/04

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Big spot 06/08

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Big spot 06/14

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Big spot 06/19. It's clear to me at this point the compost is working wonders. These plants are doing great.

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Community garden 06/23

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Big spot 06/26

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Curry trees 06/26. They've been outside since May 5th.

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Caught this guy at the big spot the other day. It's probably the biggest rat snake I've ever seen, well over 3 feet. Very healthy too.

I'll try to go update the 2023 glog with the last of those pics, but it's just going to be me making a bunch of sauce, so not very interesting. I've made some improvements to the recipes this year that have really made a big difference. The last two batches of yellow 7 pot and ambrosia were out of this world. I'm going to keep it up going forward.

Also I've been marinating everything I can find in leftover pepper brine. It's so damn good.

Carry on my wayward sons, we shall meet again when I have more updates.
 
Time for a quick update.


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Chocolate habs at the big spot 08/25.


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Another one.


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Yellow 7 pots 08/25. It's a jungle in there.
















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One of the chocolate hab spots. Not doing nearly as well.


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Happened to see the goodyear blimp at the market a couple of weeks ago.


I just picked the first of the peppers today, maybe 80 lbs. I have a few more to pick tomorrow then I'll get chopping. Looking forward to all the audio book time. I'm currently re-reading wheel of time. Listening to book 2 now, the Rosamund Pike narrations, which I have to say are superior to the originals.
 
Well hello there. Once again I have brung an update.

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Finally bottled the 4 year old carboy of overkill. It was amazing. Hot as holy hell, and the taste is subtle, yet funky. Like the best parts of a slim jim.

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It looks like a martian landscape.

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A few peppers about to be chopped.


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The big spot.

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Another load of manure.


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Big spot again.


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Pickled peppers. I really hope these things sell or I'm going to look pretty stupid. I think they're tasty as hell.


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Chopped the curry trees on 10/07.

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Before the chop


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Nestled into their winter home.


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One of my best purchases of all time. This style is so superior over the press-n-seal ones.
 
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How come sealer is always called THE BEST PURCHASE OF ALL TIME. Hm. Hmmmm. :cheers:

Everything on your pictures looks impressive. :shocked: And all those jars!

I think I have to find some curry trees for myself now 😂
 
That would cost a lot, I'm from Poland, but having something from one of THP people would be worth it! Thank you! 😍
 
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