Only flowering plants. Nothing edible.
Anyone doing a garden?
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Time to get some tomatoes started. I don't care if they're tall by the time to transplant outside because I plant them "deep" when I transplant. I'm going to plant my onions in their own space because planting them among the sweet peppers last year was a bust. I'll start my peppers soon too.
Little early here at the NJ shore. Ask again in late April.
Sorry I didn't know that I was asking just posting about the gardening season here in the south.
No problem. Just coming out of a cold spell. First really cold 2 weeks we've in several years. Now we need rain. 10" behind at the moment.
I have to see what pepper seeds I have leftover and go from there. I know I have a packet of ten seeds for Lesya peppers still and a lot of their seeds from last year. I will be focusing on those this year as the family and friends love my smoked paprika too. It will be interesting to see if last years seeds stay true without any crossbreeding. Maybe throw in a couple of the Anaheim and Poblano plants that have always produced huge fruits. I do need to get a hotter pepper though...with last years crop having almost no heat at all I have resorted to adding a can of store bought to give my chili some low heat. Might pick up a pack of jalapenos to smoke and use as a heat adjuster.
Other than that I'm going to limit myself to maybe 20 plants or less tops. My old carcass just cant do the mass production crap anymore. My freezer is still full as well.
One other thing I'm looking into is growing turmeric to make my own anti-inflammatory supplements. I've been taking store bought and I believe it helps but who knows what the actual contents are and the potency...plus the expense. Anyone that has grown it let me know what advise/tips you have please.
EDIT: Interesting thing I just read on a seed review...one said even the hottest peppers if grown in a "sweet" soil, ie. very fertile soil, can lower the heat scale drastically. Not sure if its true but worth investigating. Makes sense stressing the plants would cause this to happen. I know high temps stress the plants too but don't necessarily alter the heat scale. I witnessed this last year with the heatwave we had but it produced peppers with no heat.
Other than that I'm going to limit myself to maybe 20 plants or less tops. My old carcass just cant do the mass production crap anymore. My freezer is still full as well.
One other thing I'm looking into is growing turmeric to make my own anti-inflammatory supplements. I've been taking store bought and I believe it helps but who knows what the actual contents are and the potency...plus the expense. Anyone that has grown it let me know what advise/tips you have please.
EDIT: Interesting thing I just read on a seed review...one said even the hottest peppers if grown in a "sweet" soil, ie. very fertile soil, can lower the heat scale drastically. Not sure if its true but worth investigating. Makes sense stressing the plants would cause this to happen. I know high temps stress the plants too but don't necessarily alter the heat scale. I witnessed this last year with the heatwave we had but it produced peppers with no heat.
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Finally got the greenhouse ready to start some seeds and it's 63 outside and the heat has been set to come on at 50 degrees at night and is on with a thermostat to shut down during the day and the fan is on a thermostat as well, so let the 2025 growing season be the best for you all.
I narrowed it down to the list below for this year. I did buy some Zapotec jalapeno seeds to have some peppers with some heat to them.
I'll probably start this season mid March with the indoor setup. Looks like mid May is the safe frost date for here. EVERYTHING will be topped this year too...they just get too unruly if I dont and from previous years experience they produce better quality and quantity. The one exception are the Lesya's which are already a short squat plant to begin with.
Still researching the possibility of growing turmeric too.
I'll probably start this season mid March with the indoor setup. Looks like mid May is the safe frost date for here. EVERYTHING will be topped this year too...they just get too unruly if I dont and from previous years experience they produce better quality and quantity. The one exception are the Lesya's which are already a short squat plant to begin with.
Still researching the possibility of growing turmeric too.
What a great idea....post which peppers you are starting this year! I always start way more than I actually put out, but a few of my friends are pepper heathens so I try to help out!
And one other thing? I have been experimenting with 2 vs 1 pepper plants in 7 and 10 gallon fabric pots, so this year I put 2 seeds in every planting space. Last year close plants did fine so this year instead of 2 separate plants in one, I'm trying two seeds in one space which will be put in a larger pot! Anyone else doing the 2 plant shuffle?
I started my pepper plants on feb 11 because my last frost date is March 25, but, I misinterpreted the moisture in the dome as adequate and I let the bottom tray dry out. After a quick water add, I salvaged half the plants, and just re-seeded in the 6 paks that only had 1 or 2 sprouts, some had 4+.
This year I started 6 paks of each of these, I will keep 2-3, probably 4 Nardello, the rest go to neighbors..
AJI Fantasy
Jimmy Nardello
Olly bell
Alcalde Chili
Puya Chili
Tolli's Sweet Long Italian
Poblano
Aconcagua
NuMex Chili
Shepherd bell
There's only two of us, but gardening is a fun vice. I lean toward the long style Italian peppers because the bell style take too long to put out, but Olly surprised me last season and late in the season put out a nice batch of green, the red seem to drag before turning red, Skipping Banana this year, replaced by Tolli's which are a 6" Italian long pepper.
And one other thing? I have been experimenting with 2 vs 1 pepper plants in 7 and 10 gallon fabric pots, so this year I put 2 seeds in every planting space. Last year close plants did fine so this year instead of 2 separate plants in one, I'm trying two seeds in one space which will be put in a larger pot! Anyone else doing the 2 plant shuffle?
I started my pepper plants on feb 11 because my last frost date is March 25, but, I misinterpreted the moisture in the dome as adequate and I let the bottom tray dry out. After a quick water add, I salvaged half the plants, and just re-seeded in the 6 paks that only had 1 or 2 sprouts, some had 4+.
This year I started 6 paks of each of these, I will keep 2-3, probably 4 Nardello, the rest go to neighbors..
AJI Fantasy
Jimmy Nardello
Olly bell
Alcalde Chili
Puya Chili
Tolli's Sweet Long Italian
Poblano
Aconcagua
NuMex Chili
Shepherd bell
There's only two of us, but gardening is a fun vice. I lean toward the long style Italian peppers because the bell style take too long to put out, but Olly surprised me last season and late in the season put out a nice batch of green, the red seem to drag before turning red, Skipping Banana this year, replaced by Tolli's which are a 6" Italian long pepper.
Those made a tasty pot of greens!
Nice group of peppers to grow. I dunno about planting two seeds right together as one will usually choke the other off. I have planted two plants per 5 gal pot and 7 gal with no issues other that the increased watering needed. Although if doing two per 5 gal I would stick with a smaller type pepper variety. A 10 gal pot you might even get away with 3 plants per depending on the variety. The large Italians I wouldnt do more than 2 per.
This pic shows the root systems of one plant per 7 gal pot on the left...and two plants per 7 gal on the right. Both had a good root system without interference and nice 3/4" to 1" stalks.
This is how I place the two plants per pot...
That is how I put 2 peppers in a pot last season, and I also had excellent root systems. Although 2 seeds in a space will put the peppers right next to each other, assuming the pot has sufficient size the root systems will still have a lot of room, even though inter-twining with each other.
I'll try at least one pot with 2 right next to each other, but I have enough starts to spread them out a bit. In fact, the more distance between should help air-flow! I may have answered my query!
Half the fun is trying new stuff!
I'll try at least one pot with 2 right next to each other, but I have enough starts to spread them out a bit. In fact, the more distance between should help air-flow! I may have answered my query!
Half the fun is trying new stuff!
Go for it...you might end up with Frankenpeppers.
I was pondering the thought of training them to grow horizontally fastened to a clothesline type setup. I grew stringbeans that way one year and ended up with way too many. My neighbors got to the point of hiding if they saw me coming with shopping bags full of them.
Whatcha' got there? I did this with some tomato seeds today. I'll be doing the sweet peppers tomorrow. In the raised bed I transferred some young Romaine lettuce plants and sowed radish and carrot seeds. Tomorrow the onion seeds go in. As an experiment I sowed some tomato seeds in the large pots outside just to see if they take. The seeds are cover with those clear domes for protection. The same domes go over the lettuce plants after sunset because it's so windy this week. Let the games begin indeed.
Sorry...it's the same as the list in my post 2731 above. Trident and Mulato poblano's, Spitfire Anaheim's, Lesya and Leyas's last years seeds, Boldog Hungarian, Paquillo seeds from 2023 and Zapotek jalapeno's. The 2023 and 2024 seeds will probably be some sort of crossbreed so that will be interesting. I swore I wouldn't plant the Spitfire's ever again due to the massive amount of BER I had...but I'll give it another try with them being pruned early. I'm focusing on the Lesya's this year as my freezer is still full of poblano and anaheim's.
You're brave planting anything outside this early...but hopefully we'll see an early warmup this year.
