2023 Garden Thread

FontinalisFin said:
6 Aunt of Farouk and 6 Deep Chunks Potted up about 2 weeks ago are starting to take off. They will go to their final home out in the back 40 in another few weeks. Still have 24 more to up pot and get hardened off. I spent the day man handling the tiller and making terraces in the upper garden area, living on a hill sucks.
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Tomorrow up potting a couple hundred tomatoes and peppers.
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Nice. Hope those work out for you.
Got a couple each of your tomatoes going.
 
jact55 said:
Nice. Hope those work out for you.
Got a couple each of your tomatoes going.
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Oh I think they will, the descriptions I read online seem like exactly what im looking for. I also ended up with 5 Sinai Red, 5 Blueberry, 2 Big Bud from bagseed, 1 76' Panama red x Afgani. Then I'm starting a bunch of Quickfreeze for a friend to grow on their farm. I am stoked for the Sinai. I got a bunch of jalapeño and sweet peppers started but non of my superhots sprouted. The hottest I have going is Bahamian Goat and Brazilian Starfish. Chocolate bhutlah and Trinidad scorpion were no shows.
 
FontinalisFin said:
Oh I think they will, the descriptions I read online seem like exactly what im looking for. I also ended up with 5 Sinai Red, 5 Blueberry, 2 Big Bud from bagseed, 1 76' Panama red x Afgani. Then I'm starting a bunch of Quickfreeze for a friend to grow on their farm. I am stoked for the Sinai. I got a bunch of jalapeño and sweet peppers started but non of my superhots sprouted. The hottest I have going is Bahamian Goat and Brazilian Starfish. Chocolate bhutlah and Trinidad scorpion were no shows.
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I didn't pop any of your pepper seeds, being late in the year. I'll pop a bunch next year.
Got aji limo, aji Amarillo, scorpion, Carolina reaper, 7pot, thai, Korean, transylvania hot, scotch bonnet and habenero.
Habenero has never done well for me for some reason. Always stayed super small with shitty roots that don't suck up water.


The Sinai is a treat. Think you'll like em.
Blueberry likes to run late, late October to early November. Good luck!
 
Capt Insano Emeritis said:
I am growing a bunch of Fish, Holy Moley and chiltepin. Still have hot sauces foe Bulgarian Carrot and Lemon aji bottled up and waiting to be consumed
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You do fermented hot sauces?

I have some of these jar lids I need to try out at some point.

Also, hoping to get into canning in general this year. Too many veggies and too much waste last year.

Not sure why it says robot or human. It's a Walmart link lol.
 
jact55 said:
I didn't pop any of your pepper seeds, being late in the year. I'll pop a bunch next year.
Got aji limo, aji Amarillo, scorpion, Carolina reaper, 7pot, thai, Korean, transylvania hot, scotch bonnet and habenero.
Habenero has never done well for me for some reason. Always stayed super small with shitty roots that don't suck up water.


The Sinai is a treat. Think you'll like em.
Blueberry likes to run late, late October to early November. Good luck!
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Thanks for the heads up, I'll run the Blueberry in 10 gallon grow bags so I can move them under cover in the fall if need be.

I should of started peppers earlier, but I got some starts. I have at least 15 Habanada and 4 NuMex Trick or Treat, these are habanero without the heat. I plan on fermenting an extremely flavorful but heatless sauce, then add ghost pepper powder at bottling to tweak to my taste and heat level. This will also allow a mild sauce for the kids and others that can't handle the heat.
 
Stonedfish said:
Fixed it for you. 😉
SF
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Sucks to be that hot so early...
I hear ya
Almost perfect yesterday, probably too warm tomorrow...
Today is nice though, got my watering on at 6:30, with some coffee and a couple of chocolate chip cookies.
😁
 
jact55 said:
I have some of these jar lids I need to try out at some point.
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They work! The ones that replace the lid also work (though I find rings tend to rust in fermentation use--not sure why). But these definitely work. If you don't dislike it, sauerkraut is a very easy/inexpensive thing to start with.
 
Tallguy said:
My onions were doing great until I got onion maggots in the garden. Now every onion or garlic i plant gets infested. The onions die, the garlic is weakened.

Wish I could get rid of them. Don't want to use pesticides.
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You might want too try chewing tobacco just cut in into small slices and spread them around.
 
Bagman said:
You might want too try chewing tobacco just cut in into small slices and spread them around.
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Don't know if it would help this specific issue with garlic/onion maggots, but I've grown tobacco in the past. Never had such a pest free garden. Nothing likes tobacco. Nicotine is a poison to bugs, and us obviously. Good pest repellent.

After i noted this, the next year I just kept some in various part of the garden in 1 gallon pots.

Not sure the science behind this, if it's actually supposed to work, but really seemed to
 
jact55 said:
Don't know if it would help this specific issue with garlic/onion maggots, but I've grown tobacco in the past. Never had such a pest free garden. Nothing likes tobacco. Nicotine is a poison to bugs, and us obviously. Good pest repellent.

After i noted this, the next year I just kept some in various part of the garden in 1 gallon pots.

Not sure the science behind this, if it's actually supposed to work, but really seemed to
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Because chewing tobacco comes from the tobacco plant, it might have tobacco mosaic virus in it. Concoctions using tobacco should never be used around plants such as geraniums, tomatoes, potatoes, peppers, petunia, snapdragon, delphinium and marigolds, to name a few that are susceptible to this disease.
 
Capt Insano Emeritis said:
Because chewing tobacco comes from the tobacco plant, it might have tobacco mosaic virus in it. Concoctions using tobacco should never be used around plants such as geraniums, tomatoes, potatoes, peppers, petunia, snapdragon, delphinium and marigolds, to name a few that are susceptible to this disease.
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That's good to know. I was growing the actual plants, not spreading chew personally.

But would hate for it to ruin my veggies. Or have my advice ruin others plants.

Thanks for the info
 
jact55 said:
That's good to know. I was growing the actual plants, not spreading chew personally.

But would hate for it to ruin my veggies. Or have my advice ruin others plants.

Thanks for the info
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Since you grew from seed, if the plants were healthy and didn't exhibit any signs of the virus infection you should be fine using your plants or any insecticide made from them ... since they are virus free. The virus is transmitted through plant to plant or worker to plant touch and the seed coating.
 
Dr. Magill said:
I don’t know if you live in town but sometimes that’s the best call
I’m with the amendment crowd
Good soil is a journey
And the elixir imo
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I live outside of spokane. Used to mix my own. Everything from scratch.
But found a company who makes it for cheaper than I can, and probably better than mine. He teaches at the community College and works with farmers. More science than my guesstimates probably.

I'm a soil nerd
I'll still do my biochar mixes, and casting teas and such. But last year and this year, I went lazy and buy a pre-made high quality organic soil.
 
Dr. Magill said:
Fun isn’t it 😀
Lots of plant nuts around here
I think the chicks dig it
Like cooking
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Haha, I'm the cook also. Wife's got it good (but so do I, I suppose)

I'm on a gardening forum also. Was pleasantly surprised to see the gardening activity around here also
 
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