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A few lines of Fatalli powder on the bench & a rolled up seed catalog. I'm not hurting anyone but myself.
I once tried to crawl into my shoe after trying to call my mom with it....her line was busy.....texas blues said:
After this year having my first garden I can safely say im addicted and ill be making my garden even bigger next year...
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Seems like once you grow a "couple" of pepper plants and experience the thrill of eating your own hot peppers, buying peppers at the store is not an option. Year before last I had 4 plants, last year I had 10 plants, this year I have 26 plants and next year, the number of plants is going to increase to at least 130 or so. My yard is small to begin with and each year it seems I have less grass to mow. All of the plants in 2008 will be grown in containers (5 gallon) and will take up an area of 6 feet wide and 48 feet long. I haven't gotten to the point DD is yet with digging up the yard (imagining my wifes' face if I did and laughing).
I dug up my back yard, all except about four feet from the deck. It is about 30x40 feet. Of course, I grew more than peppers (beans, cucumbers, eggplant, basil, four varieties of tomatoes, carrots, beets, squash, potatoes, mustard, cabbage, kale, onions, bell peppers, plus the habs, Thai, jalapeno and Hungarian peppers. Ended up with about 125 quarts of tomato juice, 36 quarts of green beans and carrots, several packages of squash, two dozen pints of beets, several packages of eggplant, 20 quarts of whole tomatoes, 20 pints of dill pickles, some dehydrated cabbage, quite a bit of pepper powder, a few bottle of hot sauce and 50 pounds of potatoes. Not bad for about $80 in seeds, plants and fertilizer. I'll have about 8x40 feet to donate to peppers next year, all in containers. That spot of ground is dead - not even weeds will grow there. But it gets full sun, almost the entire day except for one corner. Probably have about 30 varietes, with three of each plant.
wordwiz said:
Plants in containers are great, but you can't get half the size on one in the ground. I use raised beds filled with good quality soil. they are made out of cheap untreated wood. The dirt cost more than the boxes. What happened to the ground? is it toxic?
