JGRAZ
a year ago

Do you dry any of your peppers? I did that for a few years. Too easy and really adds a pop to home cooking.

jeebling wrote:



I have in the past, but never really had a large enough harvest to make anything substantial. I go through a lot of flakes and powders so now its just easier to buy what I need/want. After covid I found the typical cayenne and red pepper flakes just didn't cut it anymore. I have since bumped it up significantly.

I have just started a few different fermented hot sauces with stuff I've grown. Never tried it before so I figured why not.
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jeebling
a year ago
Sounds like a fun project, John.
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RobertHively
a year ago

Do you dry any of your peppers? I did that for a few years. Too easy and really adds a pop to home cooking.

jeebling wrote:




We have canned banana, Hungarian wax, hot cherry and jalapeno peppers this season. We've also eaten them fresh in things like salsa and vegetable pizza. Wife diced a lot of bell peppers and put em in the deep freeze.

In the past I have dried habanero and cayenne. I've made crushed red pepper flakes, cayenne powder and my own hot sauce once. Hot sauce wasn't that great... I made a lot of flake and powder last year, so not going to make any this season.
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jeebling
a year ago
Right on. We find that freezing diced sweet peppers works out really well. We didn’t can any last year but we probably will can a few pints in the next couple of weeks. I will probably dry one string of cayenne peppers. I enjoy cooking with them and putting the flakes on pizza.
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RobertHively
a year ago
^

How is your garden doing? I thought you said you didn't put one in this year because of health problems. But now that I think about it, I remember you mentioning canning some tomatoes earlier in the season...

I wish we woulda grown some sweet peppers this year. We tried to grow em last year, but the contents of the seed packet ended up being a totally different pepper. Didn't even try this year, maybe next yr...


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RobertHively
a year ago
We harvested one of the potato cylinders that we thought was ready--only got one tiny potato out of it. Lol! What the hell, 4 foot tall, 2 ft wide cylinder and one freaking potato!?!? What went wrong? We've grown them in totes and grow bags, but this first cylinder way was a bust. Got 9 others though.

Harvested a lot of tomatoes. After being cored they amounted to 4 1/2 gallons worth. Still have many on the vine that are either green or not quite ready.

Wife cold canned a nice pint of pepper mix--bananas, wax, serrano and cherry bomb. That's some good pizza material right there.

Applied the 30-0-4 fertilizer to the corn. They are between 4 to 8 inches tall already. Gave each plant a dose and then sprinkled the remainder down the rows. We will water it tonight for about an hour--really soak it good.

That's the garden report.
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jeebling
a year ago

^

How is your garden doing? I thought you said you didn't put one in this year because of health problems. But now that I think about it, I remember you mentioning canning some tomatoes earlier in the season...

I wish we woulda grown some sweet peppers this year. We tried to grow em last year, but the contents of the seed packet ended up being a totally different pepper. Didn't even try this year, maybe next yr...


RobertHively wrote:



I should clarify my comment. I did not have a garden this year but my stepfather put out a few things which included peppers, tomatoes, okra, cucumbers and turnip greens. Maybe next year I can get back out there. I want to try Florida Speckled Butter Beans, aka Christmas Beans. I grew them last year and they are so easy and they really produce in my region. The “baby” beans make a very good sautéed ragout type of dish. They freeze, can and dry very easily. The only thing I should do better is build a higher, stronger trellis because these dudes will literally climb 20 feet high if they have room. The only problem there is having to go up and down a ladder to harvest. Closing thought - if I can grow them ANYBODY can grow them. Oh, second closing thought - if you don’t like Lima beans these clearly aren’t for you.

Thanks for asking. 🇨🇮
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jeebling
a year ago

We harvested one of the potato cylinders that we thought was ready--only got one tiny potato out of it. Lol! What the hell, 4 foot tall, 2 ft wide cylinder and one freaking potato!?!? What went wrong? We've grown them in totes and grow bags, but this first cylinder way was a bust. Got 9 others though.

Harvested a lot of tomatoes. After being cored they amounted to 4 1/2 gallons worth. Still have many on the vine that are either green or not quite ready.

Wife cold canned a nice pint of pepper mix--bananas, wax, serrano and cherry bomb. That's some good pizza material right there.

Applied the 30-0-4 fertilizer to the corn. They are between 4 to 8 inches tall already. Gave each plant a dose and then sprinkled the remainder down the rows. We will water it tonight for about an hour--really soak it good.

That's the garden report.

RobertHively wrote:



In my region and in my experience potatoes grow and thrive in cooler weather. I plant mine in February and we have freezing temps and frost until mid / late March and occasionally frost in April. I have had no luck with potatoes that I’ve planted in May…they didn’t even grow a single potato.
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RobertHively
a year ago

In my region and in my experience potatoes grow and thrive in cooler weather. I plant mine in February and we have freezing temps and frost until mid / late March and occasionally frost in April. I have had no luck with potatoes that I’ve planted in May…they didn’t even grow a single potato.

jeebling wrote:



Yeah it was so hot this summer...

We will put them out in March next year. Planning on building a new 90x50 space, so we'll prolly put em in the ground.
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RayR
a year ago
I might try growing potatoes in a potato grow bag next year.

Ripe tomatoes have been rolling in and lots more to come. Peppers too!

I do have some evil creature of the night that has been taking bites out of some low-hanging tomatoes, even green ones.🤬
I even had some evil creature who took the entire top growth of a couple of bell pepper plants, leaving the bell peppers intact. WTF!



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RobertHively
a year ago
^

I've had success with grow bags in the past. I would use them next year, but I'd like to grow a lot of potatoes. It would take too many bags...
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RobertHively
a year ago
^

That was for Ray, on the previous page
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RobertHively
a year ago

Been gettin a plastic grocery bag worth of tomatoes daily. Today got a half trash bag worth of zucchini and squash--so it's dying down.

Corn is not looking very good. I guess it's bc of heat and lack of rain. But that was the case for the last crop of corn as well, and it really produced.

The only thing I can think of is, the last crop was more established before the drought hit. This new small corn is cooking out there. Planted 600 seeds, hoping for 300 plants.

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Jakethesnake86
a year ago
Don’t worry much about the corn stressing while young. It’ll root deeper than usual and be fine as long as the warm weather holds long enough for it to mature. With corn you actually need heat units to mature. Not actual days. There’s a formula but I’ve forgotten it at this point. I actually let my fields stress a bit when they’re young. Better root structure. Corn is vigorous
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Jakethesnake86
a year ago
I’m getting plenty of tomatoes. I grow “celebrity “ tomatoes they’re my favorite. Large yields good flavor. They’ll only get a little larger than baseballs but I love them
Peppers are starting to come on pretty good. Poblanos bell , some sweets I don’t even know what they are habernero are still green but looking pretty good. Sweet potato should be ready soon. Put up several bags of corn. Got some regular potatoes harvested they did ok. Winter squash looking good.
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RobertHively
a year ago
Harvested 2 grocery bags of tomatoes, a few zucchini and squash, a watermelon, cantaloupes and a 2 gal bucket of half runners. Our second set of half runners is now producing. We planted them June 26th.

Some of the corn looks great (really green), some looks burned up. Got me thinking, some of that corn was small when I applied the fertilizer, some was 8 inches tall. I wonder if it didn't help the bigger corn, but burned up some of the smaller corn?

That's what I'm thinking, bc I know I gave them the correct dose. Could that be the issue?

From now on I'm going to wait until the entire crop is at least 8 inches tall, which will mean some of it will be much taller before they get their dose of fertilizer.

BUT It could also be the plants were small and the sun melted them. The sun melted my wife's zinnia flowers. She watered them everyday too. So Idk

What do you think, Jake?

Got a ton of rain last night, so no watering today.

That's the garden report

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BuckyB93
a year ago
So far I've had a plethora of peppers - general sweet peppers and jalapeno peppers.

Too many jalapenos than I can consume so I'll just make a relish and jar them and pickle them. Some tomatoes still in the green stage drop off the plant for some reason. Prolly make a relish out of them too. The grow bags on the deck have been producing some nice crops and in more volume that I expected.

I need to buy some Mason jars and plan to set some time aside to jar up some end of season stuff.
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BuckyB93
a year ago
Tree five NINE!
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RobertHively
a year ago

So far I've had a plethora of peppers - general sweet peppers and jalapeno peppers.

Too many jalapenos than I can consume so I'll just make a relish and jar them and pickle them. Some tomatoes still in the green stage drop off the plant for some reason. Prolly make a relish out of them too. The grow bags on the deck have been producing some nice crops and in more volume that I expected.

I need to buy some Mason jars and plan to set some time aside to jar up some end of season stuff.

BuckyB93 wrote:



You could make jalapeno poppers. Slice pepper in half, remove seeds, fill with cream cheese and shredded cheddar cheese, wrap in 1/3 slice of bacon, bake. They're delicious, but spicy.
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BuckyB93
a year ago

You could make jalapeno poppers. Slice pepper in half, remove seeds, fill with cream cheese and shredded cheddar cheese, wrap in 1/3 slice of bacon, bake. They're delicious, but spicy.

RobertHively wrote:


Agree 100%
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