Garden 2020

[Beder]

I grow cherry and grape tomatoes, jalapeños, serranos, and Charapita peppers. Attached greenhouse on east side of house. 6100 feet in Sun Valley.
Later than usual start for tomatoes due to sheltering in place. Had 2 Charapitas survive the winter and started others from seeds.




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[goldenshowers]

an option for dealing with unexpected cold weather if you use containers.

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I had 6 in our unfinished basement too. It says around 60 +/- 5 in there year around.

Only 4 plants allowed per household and they must be out of public sight! Oh you mean tomatoes....

[babybear]

but sucks to be dealing with frost this late.

welcome to my world

-sent with love from zone 1

[Mr. Mike]

looks like you are double bagging those 5 gallon containers. one for water, one for planting medium?

[skifishbum]

weve been here almost a decade now
I never really fucked with the irrigation water system
I run the sprinkler/drip system off it
never change to culinary I just hand water once the system shuts down and pre
well its been leaking for longer than weve been here and it turns out my overflow valve is really a 3' metal cylindrical filter
and cleaning the filters gonna help with pressure
and o rings are no match for thirsty roots
holy fuckin diggin roots of epicness



got a couple dozen maters, all the peppers, squash, melons and pumpkins in this weekend
taters are coming up as are snap peas carrots lettuce radishes broc ,hops are crushing it grapes and berries blooming
harvesting rhubarb lettuce and cale


stoked its our garden and we share the labor, love and harvesting of it

[skiballs]

No pics here, but frost last night made for good use of spare roofing materials.

[SB]

No frost here last night but warning again tonight.

Looks like my snap beans and 4 outta 6 maters are toast from the other nite.

The cabbage is unfazed as is the garlic.

[schindlerpiste]

Power Hitter: essential gardening tool.
Wife's looking' like she's doing all the work.
Looking forward to eating some hops stems

[BobMc]

Went to a nearby nursery to pick up some peppers and tomatoes along with some flowers for the wife for Mothers Day. Saw one of these on the shelf and thought, hmmm, I’ve heard of those. Get home, google, perhaps a mistake...

[climberevan]

Hahaha. I grew some ghost peppers one year. They are a small step less hot than the reaper. I sauteed one pepper in oil, the removed it and added about a pound of Kale. It was inedible, and I can legit handle native Thai hot food, in Thailand. Anything beyond an habañero is a waste of space for me. Good luck !

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[riser4]

Make homemade pepper based defensive products. Profit.

[SB]

Ghost bear pepper spray?

Finally got everyone back outside. Should be no moar freezeles in this neck of the woods.

Few stunned ones may snap back, gonna give them a chance.

[muted]

Hops are nipple-high in SLC. Everything is planted, everything is sprouting. Corn, beans, squash, tomatoes, carrots, beats, and more. I think this year I'm going to learn pickling for all the tomatoes in September.

[Boissal]

Hops are nipple-high in SLC. Everything is planted, everything is sprouting. Corn, beans, squash, tomatoes, carrots, beats, and more. I think this year I'm going to learn pickling for all the tomatoes in September.

Pickling tomatoes you say? Interesting... We can a shitload of them and last year I dehydrated a whole bunch in a home-made sun box (metal grate between 2 glass panel framed in wood sitting in the S facing part of the yard) but never pickled any.
I pickle jalapenos and little cucs and love the shit out of the result.

[tgapp]

Hops are nipple-high in SLC. Everything is planted, everything is sprouting. Corn, beans, squash, tomatoes, carrots, beats, and more. I think this year I'm going to learn pickling for all the tomatoes in September.

hey this is dumb but...why hops? brewing? or do you do something else with them?

[MakersTeleMark]

Pickling tomatoes you say? Interesting... We can a shitload of them and last year I dehydrated a whole bunch in a home-made sun box (metal grate between 2 glass panel framed in wood sitting in the S facing part of the yard) but never pickled any.
I pickle jalapenos and little cucs and love the shit out of the result.

I wouldn't do a whole lot, but lacto fermented cherry's are literally the bomb. They explode in your mouth with fizzy tomato flavor. Try a small batch.

[skifishbum]

hey this is dumb but...why hops? brewing? or do you do something else with them?

hops are the ultimate low maintenance green privacy fence that provide both beer and pickled shoots for next level bloody mary fixins ingrediants

[Skidog]

hops are the ultimate low maintenance green privacy fence that provide both beer and pickled shoots for next level bloody mary fixins ingrediants

Do you give them away to local friend brewer's? I always wondered about hops, but their potency is measured, in ibu. How does one determine that as it's pretty important in brewing. I guess as a finish hop it wouldn't matter much.
Interested in pickled hop shoots too. Never heard that one. Just garnish or you eat?

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[MakersTeleMark]

A friend has the most badass hop curved over shade structure at his Tiki bar.

[skifishbum]

i give them to my home brew crew
A bro in shit dont grow in the summit park ut shade provided me with the initial rhizomes to start
https://www.tetongravity.com/forums/...ts!?highlight=
thanks again KQ

[muted]

Pickling tomatoes you say? Interesting... We can a shitload of them and last year I dehydrated a whole bunch in a home-made sun box (metal grate between 2 glass panel framed in wood sitting in the S facing part of the yard) but never pickled any.
I pickle jalapenos and little cucs and love the shit out of the result.

Maybe I'll do all three depending on how many we get? I'm really just throwing ideas out, no real research done yet.

hey this is dumb but...why hops? brewing? or do you do something else with them?

We give them to my wifes friend who brews. And that trellis shown is two sided with an arch, so it's good garden decoration and grows f'in fast to cover it.


What do people use to keep Quails from eating everything? Wife said no to chicken wire. Wondering if screen door netting works or is too flimsy, expensive, etc. What do you guys do? I didn't care that they ate the brussels sprouts but now those fuckers are decimating the lettuce.

[getoutside]

..now those fuckers are decimating the lettuce.

birds 1. romaine 0.



so put in 3' stakes in each corner and found some cheap bird netting, trimmed it and so far, so good. now its early, and i don't know shit but its been fun learning.

[Boissal]

birds 1. romaine 0.

so put in 3' stakes in each corner and found some cheap bird netting, trimmed it and so far, so good. now its early, and i don't know shit but its been fun learning.

Our lettuce patch got decimated too. Armies of birds in the yard all day, 4 fucking cats lounging around in the dirt doing nothing. I'm going to lock the door and let them fend for themselves for a couple days, maybe hunger will remind them that they're supposed to fuck up birds, not stare at them with mild interest while sunbathing.

Just kidding, Ms Boissal would lock me out if I did that. I covered the plants with thin ground cloth on 3' stakes, keep them a bit shadier so the arugula doesn't go crazy bitter.

[irul&ublo]

Maybe I'll do all three depending on how many we get? I'm really just throwing ideas out, no real research done yet.



We give them to my wifes friend who brews. And that trellis shown is two sided with an arch, so it's good garden decoration and grows f'in fast to cover it.


What do people use to keep Quails from eating everything? Wife said no to chicken wire. Wondering if screen door netting works or is too flimsy, expensive, etc. What do you guys do? I didn't care that they ate the brussels sprouts but now those fuckers are decimating the lettuce.

I see your problem. You're letting your wife tell you what to do.

[Rideski]

First hail storm of the year. Good times.