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[–] 14147682? 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago  (edited ago)

Tomatoes did shit. Peppers...running out of shit to do with them. I have prepared about 5 quarts of tobasco based hot sauce. Dried jalapenos. Salsas. Pickkled. Dried this purple peppers I don't even know what the hell they are because they were mislabeled. Pickled them too. These nice orange bell peppers have been killing it. I could probably survive a month just on the peppers that grew this year.

Still working on watermelons. Only had 2 but still lots of little ones left but with the weather cooling not sure how far that will go. Starting to rotate in fall/winter vegetables now. Guess we will see how that goes.

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[–] theshopper ago 

Umm, did you ever think about selling some of your pepper sauce? I know you'd at least have 1 customer.

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[–] 14156326? 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

First time I've made this particular sauce because it's the first time I grew these peppers. If it turns out good I would probably be willing to bottle and just send some out. Not sure it would be worth selling at this quantity but if you pay for shipping then it's yours. I've been making sauces for a few years now with peppers I've grown. Have had some great ones. Had some bad ones. My garden ends up being largely peppers most years. I've gone to hot sauce/hot foods festivals a few years now and get some ideas then talk to vendor people probing for advice. It's a hobby but if I could make money from it that's cool too. I'm actually working on a from scratch hydroponic mist system and intended to test it out with some seeds I kept from the reapers I grew and a few other things. Could have a year round production cycle some day.

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[–] 14147369? 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

I planted 15 mammoth sunflowers, watermelon, habaneros, jalapenos, yellow ghost chilis, sugar snap peas and 3 types of tomatoes. Faggot squirrels, rabbits and coons destroyed everything but the peppers and tomatoes.

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[–] 14147733? 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago  (edited ago)

Faggot squirrels destroyed almost everything I grew besides peppers and things that I have potted on my upstairs deck. Have an artichoke growing. Not sure I'm going to get something edible out of it but it still grew well.

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[–] 14148583? 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

I caught one of the raccoons. My buddy's 5 year old son put a .22 in its head for me.

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[–] 14148695? [S] ago 

Buy a nice air rifle on amazon. Got a RGB dot sight on mine, I can blow a squirrel's head off from across the yard. I also used it to shoot up a wasp nest once after I sprayed it with poison.

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[–] GassyMcGasface 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

A few tomatoes and a fuck load of cayenne peppers. My pepper plant is less than 8 or 9 months and I have like 30 I'll have to pick off it tomorrow. Not sure what to do with the peppers other then to blend them into hot sauce. My Squash didn't make it and no limes yet but one that was dying made a recovery.

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[–] Hand_of_Node 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

Hot sauce now, freeze them for hot sauce or something else later, or dry them. After drying, run them through your blender to flake or (longer) powder them. If you need more seeds for next year, here is an excellent source with good prices. Selection can be seasonal.

https://pepperlover.com/

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[–] SirDigbyChikenCaesar 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

I've never been able to get corn to grow. Guy down the road can, but I can't for some reason. Tomatoes and pepper did great, peanuts did well. Squash too.

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[–] SirDigbyChikenCaesar 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

I had squirrels eat my honey dew blossoms last year and I'm still angry.

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[–] SirDigbyChikenCaesar ago 

Mine get about a foot tall, dry up and die.

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[–] 14148708? [S] 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

How many plants do you have next to each other? Corn isn't good at pollinating itself so you need like a 5x5 patch of it at the least to get good pollination unless you're going to carefully do it by hand.

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[–] SirDigbyChikenCaesar ago 

Nah, mine grow a food high, dry up and die. I've never found anything about it on the internet.

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[–] SerialChiller 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago  (edited ago)

Zone 9B. All organic, no pesticides. Occasional spray of H2O2 for mildew. Mostly growing in a 50 ft long x 2 ft wide raised bed, intensive/square-foot method, with a fence/trellis along one edge. Plus pumpkins grown under a small cluster of fruit trees that are heavily mulched in pine wood-chips.

  • Tomatoes: Not great. Summer was too hot. They're producing fruit now but the squirrels are jewing them just as they start to ripen. I have taken to harvesting them as soon as they start turning yellow now.
  • Bell peppers: Did alright. These are now two year old plants. Wish I had more.
  • Eggplants: Doing okay. Just started producing once the temps cooled down from summer.
  • Okra: Doing okay. I grew six plants each in two containers as an experiment. Not great big plants but a decent harvest.
  • Beans: Pole beans are great, bush beans not so much.
  • Armenian Cucumber: Produced huge cucumbers - over 18 inches long - but the plant caught a bad case of powdery mildew (in spite of no rain) so I had to take it out.
  • Sinqua: It's a delicious ridged asian squash - super performer. Huge yields, vine grows vigorously, and in spite of being tangled up with the Armenian cucumber vine, the mildew has no effect on it.
  • Delicata Squash: Caught mildew from the neighboring armenian vine. Produced a few squash, but not a success.
  • Green chili peppers: Doing well. Loads of peppers.
  • Berries: Did great. blackberries, raspberries, mulberries, strawberries, goji berries - all on two year old plants.
  • Figs: Producing well but the fucking birds, man.
  • Plums & Peaches: Good season but too short.
  • Grapes: Just planted a vine this year, so lots of growth but no fruit. Hoping to get some next season after pruning.
  • Hyacinth beans: Holy crap, I am now sick of eating them. I harvest about 150 of these pods every week.
  • Passion fruit: just producing fruit now, yet to ripen... waiting
  • Pumpkin: sprawled all summer and I harvested a giant pumpkin just this week - I haven't weighed it but it is bigger than my arse, not kidding. There are three more smaller ones that are still growing on the vine.
  • Potatoes: mediocre harvest, but I had just thrown a few old potatoes into a container, so I can't complain.
  • Taro: the plant is growing, I have to dig it up to see if there are any tubers underground.
  • Ginger: plant is healthy, no idea what the harvest will be when I dig it up.
  • Herbs: Always do well... basils, bergamot, rosemary, syrian oregano, marjoram, sage, parsley, cilantro, ...

All this sounds like a shit ton of stuff, but it's fucking amazing how little it takes to plant this stuff. Most of it is waiting and keeping them watered.

For fall, I started Kales (lacinato, scotch, portugeuse, russian), broccoli, kohlrabi, cauliflower, lettuces, spinach, amaranth, beets, radishes, and red cabbage. Everything started well but some faggot critter is eating my seedlings so I have lost a bunch of them already and have to start new seeds (or go buy some plant starts).

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[–] 14158292? [S] ago 

Out of curiosity, what do you believe is too hot for tomatoes? Mine do much better with daytime temperatures in the 90s than they do with daytime temperatures in the 70s to low 80s.

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[–] SerialChiller ago  (edited ago)

We had daytime temps in the 95-102 range in july and august, with no rain and hot nights. I am not an expert, but I have been told that tomato tend to not produce flowers when nighttime temps stay above 70. No flowers means no pollination and no fruit. And my observation seems to support that theory. When I lived for some time in the tropics, tomatoes used to do better in winters there, maybe for the same reason.

Temps started getting lower in late August and the flowers came back, and I now have a decent set of fruit happening - although it is a race to harvest them before squirrels/mice/birds take a bite out of them.

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[–] vivalad 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Despite the rat infestation that wiped out everything in July, I consider it a moderate success since I was able to grow stuff I never tried before early on(green beans, onions, cucumbers & corn, beautiful 7 foot stalks...sigh).

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[–] slevin_kelevra 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

I never started mine. I feel ashamed.

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[–] middle_path 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Tomatoes were a bust. Our summer was basically a series of drought and floods, so it was tough.

Only other real bad one was sweet corn, it just totally flopped on me.

One nice surprise was the zuchinno rampicante. What a cool freaking plant. And the garden I planned out, mostly worked out well.

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