[CH] Free habs
Suz (spnsp@ix.netcom.com)
Fri, 31 Jul 1998 11:38:15 -0700
Took a trip to my local nursery this morning, needing some hab plants to
supplement mine which seem to be stunted and stressed, producing pea-sized
fruit. They had quite a few pepper plants of all varieties. I picked three
fairly good-looking habs, and mentioned to the owner that his didn't look
much better than mine, and that some of his were also showing signs of being
eating by some sort of creature.
He looked at them, said he had no idea what might be eating them. "Take
them free" he said. "Go get some more, it's time to get rid of them
anyway." :)))
Not being greedy, I only took 5 more hab plants. But I'm thinking I'll go
back tomorrow and get a bunch of the other varieties also. I'll offer to
pay for them. If he insists, tho .... gee, and I'm running out of garden
space.
Question ... do I pick the tiny pea-sized habs? They're orange. Will they
grow larger? Last year they didn't turn orange until they were a good size.
My japenos look GREAT! Especially the ones that got the leaves all eaten
off earlier this year. The other peppers are coming along fairly well now
too.
The mysterious fruit tree question has been partially solved. One variety
seems to be red plum. The jury is still out on the other. The fruit is
taking longer to ripen and the tree bark is a different color.
Anyone want free plumbs? What do I do with several hundred plums?
("`-'-/").___..--''"`-._ Suz,
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(il),-'' (li),' ((!.-'
sitting in SoCal, munching on maters, waiting for the habs and plumbs to
ripen. Gonna be a good chile season after all.