Re: [CH] CH- Poll

Linda Reynolds (lr21@cornell.edu)
Wed, 18 Jun 2008 14:26:12 -0400 

Good poll......back to the garden......finally!

I have a dozen super chiles, half dozen of cayennes, Jalapenos, sweet 
peppers. 3 kinds of maters, some cukes and will be putting in more of those
and a few summer squash. Garden is about half the size as it was a 
few years ago as it was too big to manage and didn't provide enough of the vine
crops to make it worth while. I will put a few herbs in the raised 
bed and then sit back, drink beer and watch the weeds grow! ;-)

I actually had the plants for awhile before getting them in the 
ground as I had to pull up the landscape fabric and work 
soil......that and we had
a heat wave early on and had to get the pool ready!

At 02:15 PM 6/18/2008, JohnT wrote:
>JimC writes:
>>Here's my poll:  Who has got what in the ground (chiles) & how's it
>>doing?  Haven't even worked up the nerve to go see if I can answer my
>>own question yet :-)
>
>
>Not a darn thing!! Haven't put a plant "in the ground" since '84.
>
>
>AlexS writes:
>>The dill is out of control and the garlic chives are filling the yard
>>waste cans.
>
>Dill!!!  Once again I forgot to start a couple dill and tarragon plants.
>Planted 4 pickling type cukes this year (they taste terrible!) for
>fermenting and forgot that the recipe calls for those herbs.  It cost nearly
>$3 ea for tiny, tiny pkgs of a few sprigs. Plus it took 30+ miles and 4
>grocery stores to find.  The pickles are worth it though.
>
>
>Back to peppers....  Got the freshest possible rocoto seeds from CameronB
>last fall and the two plants look fantastic.  Blooming nicely, but no pods
>set yet.  We are enjoying a rather cool June this year so my fingers are
>crossed that will get some pods set before it gets too hot.  Picked a
>handful of 2nd year Scotch Bonnets this morning and I see some Datil and a
>cayenne type (from Tom Jefferson's garden) starting to turn color.  Really
>hoping for a good crop of bird peppers this year.  4 plants going from Ian
>(England.. attends O.F.) and 2 second year plants from WillardB (Rogue) that
>gave me a handful of tiny pods last year.  (from Monticello too)  Also have
>some of my old fav 'pubes doing very well.  So happy to get seeds for my
>original 3 rocotos after having lost all my old plants when I got ill and
>had given all the seeds away.  Quite a few people responded to my seed
>request.
>
>jt
>