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peakoiler - I am intending to do that with a two different pepper plants this year... so I am glad that actually worked for you. It is a real struggle to get hot climate crops to produce where I liv ...

The peppers look great peakoiler! I have a few on the plants - but all of our warm season crops are way way behind schedule this year - peppers included.

Here's the garden update from DoubleD's garden:

Summer crops are providing a good bounty - but the green beans, cukes, and tomatoes were all so delayed so much this year that my window of time to h ...

Four years ago we purposefully made a move from our location in central Washington (hot dry desert - lots of land and room) to the coastal pacific northwest (less land now but weather is milder and mo ...

Wood ash will also raise the soil PH. I keep large bags of rock minerals (rock phosphate, greensand, and dolomitic lime) in the shop. I have about six years worth under normal useage conditions. ...

Good work Baha. Your canning efforts are excellent too. You are right that canning is very energy (and water) intensive. It can be done on a good wood burning stove though... not nearly as easy an ...

Ignore works beautifully - except when those of you who "play" the game keep quoting the person I have on ignore. Then I am subjected to seeing the posts despite my attempts to properly ignore it co ...

It is not easy. It is possible to do though - but most self sufficient homesteads are doing it through a combination of growing food, hunting food, and foraging food. Those actions coupled with a ...

Thought I would post an update to bump this thread back up to the first page.

We are finally getting some warmer weather (not blistering hot but warm enough for the tomatoes, peppers, cukes, and zu ...

You do not need a heat sealer to close mylar bags. A hot iron and a board edge to press it on is all you need. Here is a link to a good short video showing how to do it.

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It is generally a good practice to keep a reserve of viable seeds. If you depend on your garden for food production, trusting that you will be able to get seeds when you want them is risky at best. ...

Cranberries

wisconsin_cur - I honestly don't know what that bug is - only guess I have is that it is an immature potato beetle - or a mutant one. Do you live near a nuclear reactor?
Very Happy

Thanks biofuel13 - it IS getting scarey out there lately. Sad

The garden is more than a food source - it is also a refuge from a world that appears to be going mad.

Looking good Olaf!

Heineken - I would plant carrots and parsnips in your plot. If you got them in the ground now they will have time to germinate and grow to full maturity before the cold weathe ...