Silver_Surfer's season starts

[gasificada]

Healthy, bushy and stocky.... complete and utterly awesome, SS!

 

[Siliman]

....May was crazy; the first half record cold and the last half set records for heat....

Looks like the cold and hot spells balanced out quite well. Bootiful....

 

[Josh]

It is good to see you're alive. The whole garden looks great. What generation is that Jalabanero at? Is the pod shape etc. consistent?

 

[Silver_Surfer]

I really appreciate all the compliments everyone.

Great garden!

What kind of a beast do you pull the subsoiler with? Love tractor pics.

Same tractor in pic, a Fiat 466DT. 54HP diesel. I'll see about some tractor porn for ya in some future pics.

It is good to see you're alive. The whole garden looks great. What generation is that Jalabanero at? Is the pod shape etc. consistent?

Hey Josh, I got the seeds from ZanderSpice. I have 2 growing and they are completely different. One has tapered pods and the other globular. I'm not sure if either is correct, but will know how they taste soon.

 

[Dot Com]

Corn was already tosslin' and okra was gettin' fried at this time last season. May was crazy; the first half record cold and the last half set records for heat. June is hot and dry so far so the drip irrigation gets a workout. The drip tape is performing much, much better than the soaker hose used last season, but it sucks to get plants started earlier and set out so late. I did manage to pick over a pound of pods this AM though.

Does the drip tape have to be laid-out on a downward sloping incline and how did you get your plants to get so bushy throughout?

 

[MGOLD86]

What is you general spacing for your peppers and maters?

 

[Silver_Surfer]

Does the drip tape have to be laid-out on a downward sloping incline and how did you get your plants to get so bushy throughout?

Nope, level, uphill or down it delivers evenly provided your slope isn't too extreme.
The plants and the sun do it all, I just water and feed them occasionally.
I'm using Queen Gil drip tape, but other brands should perform similarly.

What is you general spacing for your peppers and maters?

Last season I planted with rows spaced at 40 inches with 30 inch spacing within the row. This season I tightened it up to 30 inch rows with 2' spacing because I wanted to plant more in the same space. I spaced the corn rows really tight with 2' rows and around 4 to 6 inch spacing.

 

[Justaguy]

That is perfect for corn.

 

[t0mato]

You have the best looking chilies I've ever seen. You should get excellent production out of big bushy plants like that.

 

[MGOLD86]

SS What is your spacing for chilies and maters?

 

[geeme]

Just beautiful, as usual.

And just heard a report that by the end of May last year, OH corn growers had 93% of their crops in. Mid-June now, and they only have 19% in this year. Definitely a freaky weather year across the country. Guess I shouldn't feel too bad about my own little "crop" not being very big!

 

[MGOLD86]

Last season I planted with rows spaced at 40 inches with 30 inch spacing within the row. This season I tightened it up to 30 inch rows with 2' spacing because I wanted to plant more in the same space. I spaced the corn rows really tight with 2' rows and around 4 to 6 inch spacing.

Thanks!

 

[Avon Barksdale]

Wow, I hadn't checked this thread in a awhile, that is an amazing garden. Nice and tight and clean and organized. Hopefully I'll have something like that eventually.

 

[Trippa]

amazingly organised looking setup ... envious of that amount of space .. Haven't had anything like that since I left my parents Farm in NZ.

Great work

 

[Silver_Surfer]

After 10 days the garden is showing some progress.

Lower end shot.

Peppers are starting to meet.

Tomatoes are staring to crowd the peppers.

Cantaloupe and Butternut squash

Okra and pole beans

Squash

 

[Silver_Surfer]

7 Pod Barrockpore

7 Pod Brown

7 Pod Jonah

7 Pod Orange

7 Pod Primo

7 Pod SR strain

7 Pod Yellow

 

[Silver_Surfer]

Aji Panca It looks as if I may get to taste this one this year.

Beni Highlands

Big Sun Hab

Bih Jalokia

Bonda Ma Jacques

Brown Trinidad Congo

Butch T Scorpion

 

[Silver_Surfer]

Cachucha

Cheiro Recife

Chocolate Bhut

Datil

Douglah

Douglah x Scorpion cross

Fatalii

 

[Silver_Surfer]

Giant Cumari

Holy Mole

Inchanga

Infinity

Inorka This one lost its right main fork during a storm earlier this week and a storm yesterday got the left one.

Jalabanero

 

[Silver_Surfer]

Jalapeno - Biker Billy

Jalapeno - Gigante

Jalapeno - Mucho Nacho

Jamaican Scotch Bonnet

Joes Long Cayenne

Marouga Long

Marouga Red