Islander Pepper: A New Variety That Goes From Lavender To Orange to Deep Red

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Islander pepperThis is the Islander pepper. One of the new varieties I am growing this year. I just got done transplanting them into 3.5 inch pots. Germination was great, 28 husky, lovely little plants out of 32 that I seeded. Islander pepper full colorThese peppers go from purple to yellow to orange to deep red. On the same plant. The picture up above shows them in various stages of ripening. They are a sweet bell type and ripen relatively early. Of course, that all depends on how happy your pepper plants is.

“Hoop House” Glides Open And Closed

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This is a great idea. A hoop house that is easy to move. Especially for our area that has early and late frosts.

FARM SHOW – “Hoop House” Glides Open And Closed.

Carolina Reaper, Ghost Pepper, and Trinidad Scorpion Have Been Seeded!

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I seeded my super hots and my “just plain hot” peppers over the last couple of days.

The superhots: Carolina Reaper, purportedly the hottest pepper in the world, the Ghost pepper, aka Bhut Jolokia, and the Trinidad Scorpion can take up to 8 weeks to germinate.

The normal hot peppers (ones that are not reported to set your head on fire) that I planted are Thai, two kinds of Habanero, Serrano, Cayenne, Hungarian Hot Wax and Chinese Five Color can also be slow. I do know they are slow to grow, hence my starting them in January. Next week I will sow the rest of them. The sweet bells, non sweet bells and the medium hots like Jalapenos, Poblanos etc.

The funny thing is that I am of hispanic descent yet I don’t like anything even remotely spicy! Wait, I do have a caveat to that statement. I will use the smallest piece of jalapeno that I can get away with in my salsas for flavor. And I mince it to dust at that.

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Cabin Fever Blues: Longing for Warmer Weather

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Am spending the day ordering tomato and pepper seeds. I look outside and it is gray and dreary and cold. Doing this tasks makes me long for warmer temps, green grass, the warmth of the sun on my face.

Who knew? Every year I get tired of gardening and watering and thinking up ways to use my produce and start thinking about calling in an asphalt company. Then, long about Christmas, the seed catalogs start arriving and I start dreaming.

There is a new (to me) kind of nasturtium out, called Phoenix.51477-PK-P1

It’s petals have raggedy edges. The seed came a couple of days age. Looking forward to trying it. The first time I grew them, they were a major aphid magnet. Yuck. I tried again and haven’t had any problems since and they are on my list of favorite flowers now. I also love the variegated Alsaka

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My First Garden Planter | Fun With Gardening

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It is important to teach children where their food comes from. This would be an easy and fun way to give them their own manageable first garden.

16+ More Creative Garden Container Ideas

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Great way to reuse things. The idea of succulents is perfect since it needs less water.

16+ More Creative Garden Container Ideas.

13 Tips for Growing Beautiful Roses!

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Not tomatoes but still something in the gard.

13 Tips for Growing Beautiful Roses!.

Tell Me What Tomatoes and/or Peppers You Want Me To Grow This Year

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Hello to all my customers! (Should you be reading my blog)

Time to let me know what you want me to grow this year. Let me know your favorites or something you heard about that sounds good. If I can secure the seeds, I will grow them. Tomatoes and/or Peppers. Let me know before the end of January. Thanks

Another Idea For Using Green Tomatoes?

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Another good use for green tomatoes. Use them as a substitution for tomatillos which are all tart.

(19) Julien Vaché’s answer to What can you make with green tomatoes? – Quora.

My Garden in The Fall, Dahlias and Tomatoes Still Going Strong

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This has been a most interesting year weather wise. I am beginning to think we should call tomatoes in my neck of the woods a fall crop. Sure, I had smaller ones like the cherry tomatoes, Sweet Baby Girl and Sungold and the Compari and Sweet Carernos tomatoes give us fruit but really none of the biggest ones. Limmony , Cherokee Chocolate and Speckled Roman were next to give us something to eat. Most did not grace our table until the second week of September. Everyday, the crop was increasing as the green tomatoes got bigger and bigger. We waited with bated breath. The first of the big ones to ripen was Mello Yello. It was 2.6 pounds! The Aussies, My Love’s Pink Oxheart and the Coustralees were the next largest. Our Amish Paste put out lot of huge, paste shaped tomatoes. The only one that has not yet produced is the Cosmonaut Volkov. It started out really slow, glacially slow and has good sized tomatoes but it it October 31. I had high hopes for that one.

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On of our last harvests

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This is a picture of our Amish Paste still going strong on October 31! Amazing. We still have about 150 pounds of green tomatoes which are taking their sweet time to ripen.

Stay tuned for more wrap up posts for the 2014 season.