Hi all...I have a few plants in pots...nothing really working this year, but not really trying that hard. However, I have a fat-stash of a few hundred red savina seeds, and harvesting some bhut jolokia seeds currently. I should tell you, I harvest all my seeds from store bought peppers, for the time being. I've done it before, and as long as I get them dried, and in the fridge, they seem to work...even though the germination rate is about 25%, and the survivors after that are about 30-40%. But...it's all in the interests of CHEAP.
So...I have a raised pepper garden planned for next season. It will be in an "L" shape, about 3' wide, and 2-3' deep.
Some basics on where this will be:
Dallas Fort Worth area; which generally sees highs around 100F/38C from June through August. I have a unique spot, in which the peppers would receive full sun from dawn until about 2...then partial shade until 5...then full sun until dusk. To me, this seems perfect. Even though the peppers need "full sun", having spotty shade during the hottest few hours of the day seems like a plus. I have plenty of room here...but I don't want the horses eating or stomping them in the pastures, and in the back yard, I don't want the Australian Shepherd eating the young plants, like the 32 scotch bonnet plants he feasted on back in April (retarded bastard). We don't get much rain in the summer, but watering will not be a problem, and we are on well water that is high in Ca and Fe. The natural soil is a sandy silt/loam mix, since we are a few hundred yards from a large lake. We have readily available sand, and horse poop, and I BBQ a lot, so I have lots of ash.
I need to get ideas for:
soil comp
watering frequency and amount
spacing
framing/containment
and "all types of ill shit" <Loc-Dog>
I have a degree in agriculture...and yet I know exactly shit about growing things.
"I ate all your plants, pissed on your tree, flattened the vollyball behind me, then licked my ass."
So...I have a raised pepper garden planned for next season. It will be in an "L" shape, about 3' wide, and 2-3' deep.
Some basics on where this will be:
Dallas Fort Worth area; which generally sees highs around 100F/38C from June through August. I have a unique spot, in which the peppers would receive full sun from dawn until about 2...then partial shade until 5...then full sun until dusk. To me, this seems perfect. Even though the peppers need "full sun", having spotty shade during the hottest few hours of the day seems like a plus. I have plenty of room here...but I don't want the horses eating or stomping them in the pastures, and in the back yard, I don't want the Australian Shepherd eating the young plants, like the 32 scotch bonnet plants he feasted on back in April (retarded bastard). We don't get much rain in the summer, but watering will not be a problem, and we are on well water that is high in Ca and Fe. The natural soil is a sandy silt/loam mix, since we are a few hundred yards from a large lake. We have readily available sand, and horse poop, and I BBQ a lot, so I have lots of ash.
I need to get ideas for:
soil comp
watering frequency and amount
spacing
framing/containment
and "all types of ill shit" <Loc-Dog>
I have a degree in agriculture...and yet I know exactly shit about growing things.
"I ate all your plants, pissed on your tree, flattened the vollyball behind me, then licked my ass."
