when are you sowing your garden this year?

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Originally Posted by jhood001

Your jalepenos look small and mine always come out the same. Don't get me wrong - they're great for dicing, garnishing, and grilling, but they aren't big enough for stuffing. And that has kind of been a goal of mine for a while. I haven't figured it out yet.

And I don't believe it is a matter of leaving them on the plant longer. I've left some out until they've 'oaked' and they haven't increased in size at all. And at least in my case, it isn't the variety I'm planting.

Maybe it is just our climate and early onset of constant sun. Or maybe I'm doing something wrong.

If anyone has any ideas - please let me know.

Aside from that frustration of mine, everything in your pic looks green, clean, and awesome! And I'm jealous of your peas. Mine have burnt up 2 out of 3 years.

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Giant jalapeno plants usually produce 4-5" easy.

Edit.. https://www.ballseed.com/Growers/pla...48300001023108

Tossed some basil seeds in pots , who knows when. Did the first topping today. Even have something that looks like peppers. Wish we could devote real time to a garden, maybe next year

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Originally Posted by ChunkyMonkey

Giant jalapeno plants usually produce 4-5" easy.

Edit.. https://www.ballseed.com/Growers/pla...48300001023108

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I'll pick some up and try them next spring. Thank you, sir.

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Originally Posted by TheGrey

Question for all the gardeners here: do you use fertilizer? I found some organic stuff that was making my pepper plants and tomatoes grow like crazy before the raccoon ended it. :(

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Yes. I use Alaska Fish Fertilizer. I spray it over my large beds in the fall after I turn them over. Sit's all winter and then I till in the spring.

I mix 2 tablespoons in a 5 gallon bucket and pour it in my potted stuff every other week or so.

my garden sucked, something ate the lettuce, cukes and cantaloupe. The peppers are like 1/2" long and the basiil never grew.

I admit I have crappy dirt, been composting and adding it but it still isnt where it should be. on the other hand I got onions and zucchini out the wazoo!

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Originally Posted by Vanniek71

On the other hand I got onions and zucchini out the Kazoo!

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FIFY

More jalapenos and carrot harvest today. Carrots will be eaten raw, put in with roasts in the crock pot and turned into baby food for my 6 months old.

Jalapenos will mostly be sliced and pickled.

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Got a potato from my cousin last summer to try and replant at my place. It very quickly died. This year it came up on its own and I tried to water it when I could. Unfortunately, it was directly underneath an awning and did not get near as much water from rain/sprinklers as I thought it would. Then last week while I was out of town, some animal came and ate the plant. This is what I was able to dig up.

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Bountiful harvest indeed... At least I know where NOT to waste time planting anything next year.

Irving, what kind of cartridge is that?!?! It's huge!


Kidding aside, I had a few tiny little taters last year too. You just never know what you're going to get until you dig them up.

Irving, you have small potatoes, I have small corn. But man is it sweet. There is nothing like corn eaten within minutes of picking. There's just no way to get that taste from store corn or even most farmers market corn. Too bad it's only a couple bites.

Actually, my 5 year old didnt even let me cook hers. She ate it as soon as the husk was removed.

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And 8 pints of jalapeno pickles from the garden too today.

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