FreeportBum's: Free Beer and Hot wings 2014 Glog

Jamison · Jun 1, 2014

Damn Devan! Your garden is absolutely amazing. That garlic you sent me last year was absolutely divine to say the least. Everything looks awesome man. Anyway you can tell me what kind of garlic that was from last year. Gonna have to find some bulbs to start for sure. Anyways, keep it up the fine work. Looking forward to more of your garden!

stickman · Jun 2, 2014

Excellent start to the season Devan! You've definitely got a handle on things this year. We've been having a cold spring down this way, how are the temperatures up there?

FreeportBum · Jun 2, 2014

Jamison said:
Damn Devan! Your garden is absolutely amazing. That garlic you sent me last year was absolutely divine to say the least. Everything looks awesome man. Anyway you can tell me what kind of garlic that was from last year. Gonna have to find some bulbs to start for sure. Anyways, keep it up the fine work. Looking forward to more of your garden!

Hi Jamison thanks for the kind words. The garlic I sent was my own stock I have been growing for many years. It's a porcelain variety that I call brickyard. If you remind me in fall I will send you some heads to plant. I have 4 really nice plants from the rennie seeds you sent me, will post pics of them when they start to take off in the garden.

stickman said:
Excellent start to the season Devan! You've definitely got a handle on things this year. We've been having a cold spring down this way, how are the temperatures up there?

Thanks Rick hope all is well with you my friend. Weather in Maine... what can I say it's crazy. Less then a week ago it was 37F when I woke up! few nights this week in low 40's but things are looking better. I had the fabric on the garden for about a month warming up the soil, so I think that helped some. I don't cover anything up so it's do or die at this point :cheers:

KiNGDeNNiZ · Jun 2, 2014

Wow a whole role of just BBG. That is crazy mad!!! Hope they grow well just like mine. Make sure to stake them they have potential to be bushy and might snap like mine did

romy6 · Jun 2, 2014

Looking really good Dev. You are a master grower for shiznit .

JesterJoker · Jun 6, 2014

awesome.. good to see others in Maine growing peppers... I'm a little bit away.. I'm in Bangor/Hampden area.

FreeportBum · Jun 7, 2014

romy6 said:
Looking really good Dev. You are a master grower for shiznit .

Thanks Jamie and happy belated birthday :cheers:

JesterJoker said:
awesome.. good to see others in Maine growing peppers... I'm a little bit away.. I'm in Bangor/Hampden area.

Thanks. I see you like the BBG7 as well, good choice. :beer:

Devv · Jun 7, 2014

Wow!

I'm sorry I haven't been here sooner. Good stuff!

Heck of a garden you have there! I give it an A+

FreeportBum · Jun 24, 2014

Peppers are finally over their awkward hardening off/ transplanting phase and starting to put out some nice new growth. Random pics I took this morning, large manzano has around 3 dozen pods set and growing!!! Happy summer folks :cheers:

Thai Hazelwood

Fava Bean Flowers

Manzano

Potato blossom

Finger Hoot

Potato box getting crazy

Shiitake Logs

stickman · Jun 24, 2014

Everything's looking stellar Devan... the spring weather did good for you this year! :dance:

I'm still using your hot salt, but it's going slowly since I have high blood pressure and can't really let go... :rolleyes:

Continued success brother!

FreeportBum · Jul 7, 2014

stickman said:
Everything's looking stellar Devan... the spring weather did good for you this year! I'm still using your hot salt, but it's going slowly since I have high blood pressure and can't really let go... Continued success brother!

Thanks for the kind words Rick, weather has been crazy here. I won't need to water the garden for sometime that's for sure.

Few random pics-
This little guy had me fooled at first. He was sitting on one of my thai hazelwood plants trying to catch insects flying into the flowers

Large pube has over 4 dozen pods set!

Really stoked about this. My oyster mushroom logs are already showing mycelium rings on the end of the logs in under 5 weeks!

Walla walla's starting to bulb up

couple foodie pics- Some really nice chanterelle mushroom's that I foraged up and used to top this all from scratch burger.

More pics to come later today. Thanks for looking :cheers:

Runescape · Jul 7, 2014

Awesome plants and food pics...

Jamison · Jul 7, 2014

Damn man, looking good!

GA Growhead · Jul 7, 2014

cone9 · Jul 7, 2014

Great Glog!

What a sweet garden. Guess I'll have to spring another surprise trip to Bar Harbor on my wife again just so I can stop by your yard and see just how far my jaw can drop!

stickman · Jul 8, 2014

Wow, what an awesome-looking Wasp... I've never seen one before that had forelegs like a Preying Mantis! Nice score on the Mushrooms, and the Onions look stellar. You're really layin' it down Devan... keep up the ~~good~~ great work!

FreeportBum · Jul 8, 2014

stickman said:
Wow, what an awesome-looking Wasp... I've never seen one before that had forelegs like a Preying Mantis! Nice score on the Mushrooms, and the Onions look stellar. You're really layin' it down Devan... keep up the ~~good~~ great work!

Morning Rick thanks for the kind words, the little wasp is actually a Brown Mantidfly, just like a little praying mantis. Great camo, first time seeing one for me, thought he was a wasp at first. :cheers:

FreeportBum · Jul 16, 2014

Some pics from yesterday. Hope everyone is enjoying their summer :cheers:

Big manzano filling out her 20gal

Started to pull garlic here the last few days- looking really good

Peppers looking good, middle row is all BBG7

Thai Hazlewood

BBG7

First pods set on one of my Caramel Moruga's :beer:

Walla Walla's getting bigger everyday it seems- these are my favorite onion sweet like candy

Brown Moruga's

And a foodie- Chicken burger that I ground and topped with grilled avocado,red onion on a homemade bun

Thanks for looking.

stickman · Jul 16, 2014

Alright Devan... the OW Pube and the Garlic are very impressive! How old is the Manzano? Looks like the Chinense varieties are just beginning to kick in for you now that things have finally warmed up. How many more weeks left to your season?

The foodie pic at the end with the burger and caramelized onions on top got my juices flowin' :drooling:

GA Growhead · Jul 16, 2014

That manzano is huge!