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Thanks for the response to my tomato problems. I really should have planted a large variety. So disappointing.... first time ever starting from seeds... sigh.

Any recommendations for next year? Do ...

Will the plumbing ever end? Smile

Today I finished plumbing the 3/4" pvc pipe "T" from the 2" pipe that interconnects four 1,550 gallon rainwater cisterns. The buried 3/4" pvc manifold will gravity-fe ...

Yikes! What have I started?

I brought in the pineapple plants yesterday:

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I've read that an adult pineapple plant can get about six ft in ...

This is the worse tomato season EVER...

Sorry to hear that. Check out what the 100+F heat and drought did to my tomatoes:

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But th ...

Started harvesting my sunflower heads and bringing them in to dry. Lots of yummy seeds here... Very Happy

Cool.
I'm going to plant more of those next year. I dried some sunflower heads in that solar box ...

PeakOiler, are you at all concerned about the effect of direct sunlight on your drying herbs? I have talked to folks who feel that is a concern, that UV will affect them quickly. Our solar dryer doe ...

The second batch of cheese-stuffed peppers was even better after adding some homegrown oregano, basil, and thyme to the cheese mix.
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Thanks for that tip, Ludi.

So I decided to splurge today and eat more peppers that were stuffed with a 3-cheese and spices mixture:

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Peak oiler, I do something similar with that wire window screen but instead of putting a glass over the leaves, I tie the leaves together with string, use an old wire christmas orneament hook attached ...

That's a good idea kpeavey. I've been meaning to pick up some more worms too.

I haven't started my aquaculture project yet.

Today I filled the nearly empty 22 gal. tank of my F-150 in light of t ...

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And here is a picture of the 4 ft 10 in bell pepper plant:

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The other four pepper plants range from about 1.5' to 3.5'.

Here are the data for bell peppers in 2007. I started the electronic record keeping for my garden in June of last year.

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This year w ...

peakoiler:
Does that pepper produce in the winter? When it goes back out in the spring, how long until it begins to produce again? What is the production volume relative to a new plant?

Not real ...

I wanted to add that one of the bell pepper plants is in it's 3rd season of producing peppers. I transplated the pepper plant from the garden into a pot and brought it into the house for the winter, t ...