Grow your own?

Blackbeard · Mar 14, 2024

The spicy capsicum should tingle their senses and keep them away instead of inviting them. This is another reason I was thinking of doing a raised bed in cedar, etc.

barnetmill · Mar 18, 2024

Mike: for the seeds you send me: The brandywine tomato seeds I see are spouting and #23 sweet is also spouting up. I covered the pots for tonight. We have cold snap coming that that might reach 36 F tonight, but still some frost might be possible.

Blackbeard · May 2, 2024

I'm getting some ghost peppers from a coworker in Texas. He's grown a number each year, and said he would send me some seeds along with a few he dried. He warned me tho, masks, and gloves when touching. I'm excited.

Blackbeard · Tuesday at 9:06 AM

I really enjoy pasta with a fresh grind of hot peppers. Flat iron peppers is a great alternative if you don't want to grow your own. Thanks to @Mike A1 for sharing those.

barnetmill · Tuesday at 10:06 AM

barnetmill said:
Mike: for the seeds you send me: The brandywine tomato seeds I see are spouting and #23 sweet is also spouting up. I covered the pots for tonight. We have cold snap coming that that might reach 36 F tonight, but still some frost might be possible.

Some of the tomatoes are putting out flowers and will soon be big enough for stakes. In my area once the night time temp get a lot of 75 F, there will be no fruit. We are near that mark mark now. So far no disease.

dennishoddy · 2024-05-08T00:38:13-0400

We are just getting into the growing season in Northern Oklahoma.
Almost got a freeze a couple weeks ago.
My buddy plants the garden, as we are traveling all the time, but I wanted to try a tomato plant with some fish guts after cleaning some as a natural fertilizer.
Found one at the nursery that was about a foot tall and planted it with only the top exposed with fish guts in the hole to slowly dissolve and fertilize.
He has two dozen plants in another location. We put this one out in a remote location to see if the raccoons and other critters would dig it up for an experiment.
I did it one at our home before we started traveling and our dogs dug it up.
They stunk for a week. LOL! Wife wasn't happy.

barnetmill · 2024-05-08T01:05:10-0400

dennishoddy said:
We are just getting into the growing season in Northern Oklahoma.
Almost got a freeze a couple weeks ago.
My buddy plants the garden, as we are traveling all the time, but I wanted to try a tomato plant with some fish guts after cleaning some as a natural fertilizer.
Found one at the nursery that was about a foot tall and planted it with only the top exposed with fish guts in the hole to slowly dissolve and fertilize.
He has two dozen plants in another location. We put this one out in a remote location to see if the raccoons and other critters would dig it up for an experiment.
I did it one at our home before we started traveling and our dogs dug it up.
They stunk for a week. LOL! Wife wasn't happy.

Some years ago I tried a fish based fertilizer and something dug into the pot.
I did not do it yet this year, but I often surround a garden area with fencing to keep the dogs out. One of them is attracted to tilled soil as a place to dig a hollow for her to sleep in.