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Double dog dare ya to take a big bite Eric.

 

Ohhhhh I know better than that... I’ve eaten fresh little slivers of them before and that was enough! It’s about 2 seconds of fruity flavor followed by 20 minutes of molten lava These are best used for cooking with other ingredients, making sauces or bio-weapons.

 

Thats just the right size for deep fried poppers. Yum!

 

Played a stupid trick to one of my buddies at the deer camp years ago which wasnt a good drunk thought as he nailed my beer about an hour later. My mouth was burning for quite awhile.

 

It does grow fast Tim. Mine is almost 6 feet tall. I quit cutting around the 15th of June. Now is the time for some fertilizer to feed the roots for next year. Had a good crop of Japanese beetles on mine that I took care of yesterday.

 

I like spicy hot foods, but, jalapeños are about my limit for heat. I'm OK with taking a pass on them real hot ones, even processed into sauce or salsa.

 

Nothing wrong with that! I'd rather not eat a raw Carolina Reaper and be keeling over in pain afterwards for what feels like eternity. No sense in eating something that you can't even enjoy. That's why my intention is to make sauce out of them. I was thinking about adding some fruit like pineapple and peaches to the fermentation process to kind of balance out the heat. Used correctly, you can get both the heat and flavor out of a pepper.

 

I've had this put together for a few years. Simple. I got the stones at the ocean, but any riverbed could deliver


The trick is finding the 4 wing stones.

 

Hi Everybody! Fresh Blueberries this morning!

I had never seen plants this loaded. Have you?

This is Estill Farms between Drain and Elkton, in Southern Oregon. The price is 99 cents a pound. Nice people, and a more than fair price.


We only picked 14 pounds, at issue is our currently limited freezer space. These are Draper variety, which are an early berry. We'll go back in a few weeks and pick some other varieties. Our favorite are Chandler's - they are huge and taste fantastic.


They had other varieties still all green. At checkout I said "Better make it $15.00 - I ate a pound worth!" And they were all smiles, because, who could resist?


Life is good. Very good.

 

Those sure are prolific! They look tasty too. I had to laugh when you said *only* 14 pounds. That’s something I would say.

 

First time in 4-5 years I've tried vegies. Just a couple of tomato plants, 3 peppers and some basil. Since I was taking out some dilapidated raised beds in the yard, decided to use containers and placed them next to the fence - good choice apparently.

Picture taken 7/3 - that is a 6' fence behind it


Picture 7-10 - reaching for the sky


Medium sized slicking tomatoes

Roma type


Bell pepper type - earliest I've ever had peppers forming


Lightly spiced peppers


Next year I'll remember 1 tomato plant per container

 

Gotta love growing your own makings for a decent tomato sauce. Tomatoes, peppers, and basil. Best of luck.

 

Huge berries! No nets over them? How do they deter the birds?

 

I bought a 4 pack of mystery heirlooms, they seem to be yellow grapes.
So I have 1 red cherry, 4 yellow grapes, and a full sized red which has already shown early blight on the fruits. I guess I'll be happy with the little guys this year.

 

My Roma types are showing a blight also. Had to have come with the plants since I have them in a brand new container and used brand new bagged soil. I guess it could have come from the soil itself, but most likely the plant.

 

Curious here. The box was filled with shredded top soil mixed with a nice amount of wood mulch. Then i added composted manure.
What does asparagus need for fertilizer?
Just a basic 10/10/10 ?

 

A good read on early blight. Not much you can do once you have it but some treatments will slow the spread so you stihl have maters for your burgers and sammiches this summer.
How to Eradicate Early Blight on Tomatoes (Alternaria) | Gardener’s Path

 

Triple 10 will work just fine. If you can check the soil PH. The wood mulch can make the soil a bit more acidic which asparagus doesn't like. PH range should be 6.5 to around 7.

 

I've tried that product alot with mixed results. What does seem to work is a layer of ash around the plant .

 

I’m dealing with blossom end rot on my yellow squash. I read that wood ash can help with that as the problem can be caused by a lack of calcium which of course, wood ash provides an ample supply. Also added some around my tomato’s and peppers...