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Anyone else thinking about the vegetable garden already?
Posted on 1/1/14 at 10:46 pm
Posted on 1/1/14 at 10:46 pm
I just finished ordering all my seeds for the garden. We always start everything from seed, and this year I was actually on top of my game and got everything ordered tonight.
Melons:
Prescot Fond Blanc Melon - New to me this year. May flop, may be good...always fun to try new stuff)
Burpee Ambrosia Hybrid Cantaloupe - Always super sweet and a good producer
Beans:
Chinese yard Longs - new variety to me, but we always grow yardlongs
Thai Red Seed Yardlongs - another new variety to me
Tomatoes: Admittedly not my cup of tea, but my wife enjoys them. All 3 of these are new to us this year.
Emerald Evergreen Tomato
Black Vernissage Tomato
Pantano Romanesco Tomato
Peppers - the true star of the show
- Corno Di Toro Rosso - my bread and butter peppers. They produce like crazy, ripen to a sweet red and have little pest issues. I don't grow any bellpeppers, these fit the bill
- Corono Di Toro Giallo (Yellow version of above)
- Arroz Con Pollo - New to me this year
Syrian 3 Sided - New to me this year
-Pasilla Bajio - These are great dried for chili powder
Petenero Pepper - A rare variety of habanero. We grew these 2 years back and they were great. Good producer, very complex flavor and not crazy hot, but still very hot.
Costa Rican Sweet - Another bread and butter producer for me. Very sweet and heavy yields. This one and the Corno Di Toro replace bellpeppers in my garden.
Beaver Dam - New to me, looked interesting as I was trying to hit the $10 free shipping mark. Medium hot, but big enough for stuffing
Friariello Pepper - Another italian red. Same as above...looked interesting and $10 free shipping.
Tien Tsin - New to me as well. This is the standard Sichuan pepper often found dried.
Padron Pepper - New to me, very popular in Spain. I've seen them on cooking shows so I think I'll give them a try.
There's a few others, but these are the more interesting ones.
Melons:
Prescot Fond Blanc Melon - New to me this year. May flop, may be good...always fun to try new stuff)
Burpee Ambrosia Hybrid Cantaloupe - Always super sweet and a good producer
Beans:
Chinese yard Longs - new variety to me, but we always grow yardlongs
Thai Red Seed Yardlongs - another new variety to me
Tomatoes: Admittedly not my cup of tea, but my wife enjoys them. All 3 of these are new to us this year.
Emerald Evergreen Tomato
Black Vernissage Tomato
Pantano Romanesco Tomato
Peppers - the true star of the show
- Corno Di Toro Rosso - my bread and butter peppers. They produce like crazy, ripen to a sweet red and have little pest issues. I don't grow any bellpeppers, these fit the bill
- Corono Di Toro Giallo (Yellow version of above)
- Arroz Con Pollo - New to me this year
Syrian 3 Sided - New to me this year
-Pasilla Bajio - These are great dried for chili powder
Petenero Pepper - A rare variety of habanero. We grew these 2 years back and they were great. Good producer, very complex flavor and not crazy hot, but still very hot.
Costa Rican Sweet - Another bread and butter producer for me. Very sweet and heavy yields. This one and the Corno Di Toro replace bellpeppers in my garden.
Beaver Dam - New to me, looked interesting as I was trying to hit the $10 free shipping mark. Medium hot, but big enough for stuffing
Friariello Pepper - Another italian red. Same as above...looked interesting and $10 free shipping.
Tien Tsin - New to me as well. This is the standard Sichuan pepper often found dried.
Padron Pepper - New to me, very popular in Spain. I've seen them on cooking shows so I think I'll give them a try.
There's a few others, but these are the more interesting ones.
This post was edited on 1/1/14 at 10:48 pm
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Posted on 1/1/14 at 11:03 pm to RaginCajunz
Nice
Posted on 1/1/14 at 11:13 pm to RaginCajunz
How many peppers do you need?
I never understand someone having a garden full of hot peppers unless you are selling them. How do you eat that many peppers?
I never understand someone having a garden full of hot peppers unless you are selling them. How do you eat that many peppers?
Posted on 1/1/14 at 11:24 pm to RaginCajunz
Looks like an awesome plan
Posted on 1/1/14 at 11:27 pm to John McClane
looking forward to planting the pepper seeds I received from the Beshbox
Posted on 1/1/14 at 11:34 pm to RaginCajunz
Padron peppers are the jam
Posted on 1/2/14 at 4:46 am to RaginCajunz
Very nice. Any tricks to getting heavy yields on the peppers? I tried the costa's with little luck a couple years back. TIA.
Posted on 1/2/14 at 6:00 am to RaginCajunz
I grew both your top tomatoes along with Cherokee purple with great success and they are very tasty.
I'm interested in the yard longs. Never grown them. Good producer?
I've got nine 48" x 16' raised beds this year. I've decided to get aggressive.
I'm interested in the yard longs. Never grown them. Good producer?
I've got nine 48" x 16' raised beds this year. I've decided to get aggressive.
Posted on 1/2/14 at 7:12 am to AlaTiger
quote:
I never understand someone having a garden full of hot peppers unless you are selling them. How do you eat that many peppers?
salsa, son
Posted on 1/2/14 at 7:49 am to Martini
The long beans are heavy producers. Each bean equals about 3 normal sized green beans as well. The taste, especially in a stir fry (just garlic, soy, chili paste, and a little hoisin, white wine/chicken stock mix) is incredible. This quickly became our easiest and more satisfying last minute dinner item.
Posted on 1/2/14 at 7:49 am to Martini
The long beans are heavy producers. Each bean equals about 3 normal sized green beans as well. The taste, especially in a stir fry (just garlic, soy, chili paste, and a little hoisin, white wine/chicken stock mix) is incredible. This quickly became our easiest and more satisfying last minute dinner item.
Posted on 1/2/14 at 8:05 am to RaginCajunz
You win the internet
Posted on 1/2/14 at 8:52 am to AlaTiger
quote:
How many peppers do you need?
I never understand someone having a garden full of hot peppers unless you are selling them. How do you eat that many peppers?
I need lots of peppers. The vast majority are sweet peppers, only 2 of those I listed are hot. Between cooking, family, friends, salsas, hot sauce and dehydrating and grinding the rest into powder. Beyond that I enjoy growing and trying new ones. Also, I don't plant rows and rows of everything. 1-2 plants of each hot is more than enough for my needs.
quote:
Very nice. Any tricks to getting heavy yields on the peppers? I tried the costa's with little luck a couple years back. TIA.
I use a raised bed made of composite decking material and top the bed off each year with composted chicken manure (Naylor's, Cleggs and Old Time Farm Supply in Gonzales stocks it)
quote:
I grew both your top tomatoes along with Cherokee purple with great success and they are very tasty.
I'm interested in the yard longs. Never grown them. Good producer?
I've got nine 48" x 16' raised beds this year. I've decided to get aggressive.
Good news on the tomatoes. I'll pass it on to my wife as she was worried about picking all duds. She's grown Cherokee Purple a few years as well and enjoyed them.
Yard Longs give me the most bang for the buck. I get heavy yields and can get away with planting only a few vines. Since the beans are so large, a few plants yields enough for a meal or 2 each week.
Holy shite... that's a ton of garden
Posted on 1/2/14 at 9:19 am to AlaTiger
quote:
How many peppers do you need?
I need a bunch. Fermented hot sauce and salsa for e'rybody.
Posted on 1/2/14 at 9:34 am to RaginCajunz
I had the weirdest summer ever. I planted tons of jalapenos and had a bumper crop. Each plant produced about 100 peppers. The problem? They weren't hot... at all. We're talking jalapenos that had no more heat than a raw carrot.
I threw them all in the compost pile and will try 2 different kinds of seed next month. One will be jalapeno (maybe I just got a bad batch) and I need advice on a pepper than would be a step up on the Scovill scale. Not the hottest, just the next hottest above jalapenos. Any suggestions?
I threw them all in the compost pile and will try 2 different kinds of seed next month. One will be jalapeno (maybe I just got a bad batch) and I need advice on a pepper than would be a step up on the Scovill scale. Not the hottest, just the next hottest above jalapenos. Any suggestions?
Posted on 1/2/14 at 9:42 am to Zach
quote:
I had the weirdest summer ever. I planted tons of jalapenos and had a bumper crop. Each plant produced about 100 peppers. The problem? They weren't hot... at all. We're talking jalapenos that had no more heat than a raw carrot.
I threw them all in the compost pile and will try 2 different kinds of seed next month. One will be jalapeno (maybe I just got a bad batch) and I need advice on a pepper than would be a step up on the Scovill scale. Not the hottest, just the next hottest above jalapenos. Any suggestions?
A friend of mine swears by serranos. Those would probably fit the bill. I've always been told the "richness" of the soil will impact the heat level. It could have also just been a bad batch of seeds.
Posted on 1/2/14 at 9:43 am to RaginCajunz
I started my little raised beds last year, it was terrible. Produced eggplant like they were going out of style, jap plants produced a ton, but the peppers were thin walled. Tomato plants LOOKED like they would produce, but did not, what little fruit was yielded was small. Heirlooms did not even set fruit.
this year I am:
Adding lots of organic material, will look for the chicken manure.
Planting a little earlier, but last year the frost did burn my first heirlooms and I had to replant(replanted started plants, so I don't think that is the reason for the no fruit)
this year I am:
Adding lots of organic material, will look for the chicken manure.
Planting a little earlier, but last year the frost did burn my first heirlooms and I had to replant(replanted started plants, so I don't think that is the reason for the no fruit)
Posted on 1/2/14 at 9:45 am to RaginCajunz
I'm not really think about spring yet, I'll probably re-plant some broccoli again in a few weeks to extend that harvest, but I won't start thinking about my spring garden till March.
My Dad starts all of my seeds for me.
My Dad starts all of my seeds for me.
Posted on 1/2/14 at 9:58 am to tigerfoot
quote:
Adding lots of organic material, will look for the chicken manure.
I swear by the chicken manure. We also try to mulch the top with cotton burr compost. You can usually get it at Naylors or Cleggs. Read about it here
It smells terrible though. The chicken manure is very well composted and has little smell. It's powdery unless the bag has recently been rained on. That cotton burr compost smells like a Sasquatch turd wrapped in burning hair.
Posted on 1/2/14 at 10:12 am to RaginCajunz
Never had any luck w Cherokee purples...I have a lone fall tomato hanging on by the dryer vent...I hope it perks up in late feb and gives me some early fruit.
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