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by: N+T Active Indicator LED Icon 14 OP 
~ 9 years ago   Sep 16, '14 8:50pm  
Anyone else excited about their fall garden?
 
I am growing butter head lettuce, spinach, kale, arugula, sugar snap and snow peas, radishes, jalapeños, pickling cucumbers and bok choy. 4951
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taramay Active Indicator LED Icon 14
~ 9 years ago   Sep 16, '14 8:52pm  
Anyone else excited about their fall garden?
 
I am growing butter head lettuce, spinach, kale, arugula, sugar snap and snow peas, radishes, jalapeños, pickling cucumbers and bok choy.
 
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Sounds delicious! I'm a notorious plant murderer around here. So no gardens for me. The realtor told me to get some mums in my front pots because I probably won't kill them in the next month. LOL! 4951
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N+T Active Indicator LED Icon 14 OP 
~ 9 years ago   Sep 16, '14 9:09pm  

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>> Anyone else excited about their fall garden?
 
I am growing butter head lettuce, spinach, kale, arugula, sugar snap and snow peas, radishes, jalapeños, pickling cucumbers and bok choy.
 
@N+T:
 
Sounds delicious! I'm a notorious plant murderer around here. So no gardens for me. The realtor told me to get some mums in my front pots because I probably won't kill them in the next month. LOL!
 
@taramay:
Too funny. Yes, mums are easy. Just don't let the soil dry out too much.
I have gardening in my blood. I was raised with a big garden and started helping with the garden as a toddler.
 
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taramay Active Indicator LED Icon 14
~ 9 years ago   Sep 16, '14 9:12pm  
My neighbor had planted something in my front pots a while back. Then all of a sudden I came home one day a couple weeks ago and she had ripped them out. LOL! She also planted a bunch of stuff on the side of my house that faces her driveway. She uses my water to water them and that's our agreement. 4951
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N+T Active Indicator LED Icon 14 OP 
~ 9 years ago   Sep 16, '14 9:18pm  
I wish one of my neighbors would let me rip out some bushes on the side of their house that I end up having to trim so I don't get poked in the eye when mowing my grass. 4951
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~ 9 years ago   Sep 16, '14 9:20pm  
My father loved to garden.  He used to have about 1 acre of garden and he loved to grow many different things.  Of course, when I was young, I helped him weed and pick vegetables.  In the first home we bought, I tried to grow tomatoes.  It was a miserable failure.  I just don't have the green thumb that my dad had.Besides all of the vegetables he grew (and loved to share), the one thing I truly miss is his cayenne pepper (dried and ground fine).  The cayenne pepper you buy in the stores is just not as strong as what he grew/made. 4951
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N+T Active Indicator LED Icon 14 OP 
~ 9 years ago   Sep 17, '14 12:57am  
My father loved to garden.  He used to have about 1 acre of garden and he loved to grow many different things.  Of course, when I was young, I helped him weed and pick vegetables.  In the first home we bought, I tried to grow tomatoes.  It was a miserable failure.  I just don't have the green thumb that my dad had.Besides all of the vegetables he grew (and loved to share), the one thing I truly miss is his cayenne pepper (dried and ground fine).  The cayenne pepper you buy in the stores is just not as strong as what he grew/made.
 
@Retired_Engineer:
I never thought to make my own pepper spice. I will have to research how to make it. I have made hot sauce before and that is awesome!
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~ 9 years ago   Sep 17, '14 1:18am  

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>> My father loved to garden.  He used to have about 1 acre of garden and he loved to grow many different things.  Of course, when I was young, I helped him weed and pick vegetables.  In the first home we bought, I tried to grow tomatoes.  It was a miserable failure.  I just don't have the green thumb that my dad had.Besides all of the vegetables he grew (and loved to share), the one thing I truly miss is his cayenne pepper (dried and ground fine).  The cayenne pepper you buy in the stores is just not as strong as what he grew/made.
 
@Retired_Engineer:
I never thought to make my own pepper spice. I will have to research how to make it. I have made hot sauce before and that is awesome!
 
@N+T:  It was pretty simple.  Once the cayenne peppers are ripe, pick them and spread them out on something that air can pass through.  My father used a couple of screen doors he got from scrap.  Spread the peppers out in a single layer.  He then put the screens horizontal in the rafters of his barn.  A fan to circulate air helps.  Once they are completely dry, grind them into a coarseness/fineness you like.  He had an old grinder hooked up to an electric motor.  I usually did the grinding.  Just feed the peppers in and let them grind.  If it wasn't fine enough, he put a different end plate on the grinder and I re-ground it.  WARNING:  when grinding cayenne peppers you WILL get pepper dust all over you.  I learned early in life not to touch my eyes or any sensitive skin (if you know what I mean) until I THOROUGHLY washed my hands.  Dad saved old glass jars with their screw-tops to store the ground pepper in.  He also made numerous types of pepper sauce.  One of which I could not eat because it was way too hot!  Usually, that's just coarsely ground peppers, other flavoring you want, some salt, and vinegar.  Seal it tight in a screw-top glass container.  The vinegar keeps it from spoiling.  It never lasted long around our house because dad gave all the neighbors and friends jars to take home.
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~ 9 years ago   Sep 17, '14 2:14am  
i so wish i could plant veggies and others.  But i have a malamute that loves fruit and vegies.  I'm dreading when my lime tree blooms, she will eat em!  Loves oranges. 4951
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~ 9 years ago   Sep 17, '14 5:50am  
@n+t this post is useless without pictures! Show off your veggie garden! My okra is still going strong...and I don't have plans for fall veggie plants. I haven't had any luck with broccoli or other cool season vegetables. 4951
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N+T Active Indicator LED Icon 14 OP 
~ 9 years ago   Sep 17, '14 8:56am  
@n+t this post is useless without pictures! Show off your veggie garden! My okra is still going strong...and I don't have plans for fall veggie plants. I haven't had any luck with broccoli or other cool season vegetables.
 
@cgm10sne1:
There is not much to see right now. Most I started from seed. So it will be about a month before I take pics of the plants. I will keep you updated with pics as it progresses. 4951
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~ 9 years ago   Sep 17, '14 9:08am  
Once the cayenne peppers are ripe, pick them and spread them out on something that air can pass through.  My father used a couple of screen doors he got from scrap.  Spread the peppers out in a single layer.  He then put the screens horizontal in the rafters of his barn.
 
@Retired_Engineer: Thin fleshed peppers are better for home drying without a dehydrator.
We used to plastic thread or thin monofiliment fishing line and just strung them with a needle like popcorn strings and hung them up in the basement (or spare closet) and let them dry.A little more time consuming, but my parents were not into spicy, so we never had more than a 4-5 dozen to do at a time (and us 3 boys to help of course). 4951
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~ 9 years ago   Sep 17, '14 10:49am  
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~ 9 years ago   Sep 17, '14 11:17am  
@N+T...I have green beans drying out on an old screen door  to make "shuck beans" , my oldest daughter loves them with corn bread , the rest I put into freezer bags & freeze . I canned 26 quarts of tomatoes , 9 quarts of tomato sauce & 14 pints of watermelon preserves .... My neighbor has a huge garden & every year she shares it with me . I use to have a huge garden but age & health keep me from doing  the gardening now. It's so nice to have a neighbor that  shares hers with us . 4951
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~ 9 years ago   Sep 17, '14 11:35am  
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~ 9 years ago   Sep 17, '14 12:34pm  
I did fall in a garden once. Ended up with two melons up in my face. Didn't want to leave. 4951
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