Re: [CH] CH- Poll

Rael64 (z42dkm@yahoo.com)
Wed, 18 Jun 2008 15:02:07 -0700 (PDT) 

Sage, man, you gotta have some sage in there.  Beautiful plants, even if just the 'plain' varieties, and some of the ornamentals are just damned purty.  Pineapple is probably my favorite, not that I've ever thought the pineapple 'nose' ever came through to the taste buds.  Haven't had a garden in too many years, but last time I did, the sage, thyme and romas just rocked.  Grew some epazote too, and man, talk about growing like a weeeeeeed.

Peace, Hendrix, and Chiles.......
Rael"...need a yard (and a house...probably a job...no, just money)..."64


--- On Wed, 6/18/08, Jonathan Smillie <jonathan.smillie@gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Jonathan Smillie <jonathan.smillie@gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [CH] CH- Poll
> To: "JohnT" <Love2Troll@kc.rr.com>
> Cc: chile-heads@globalgarden.com
> Date: Wednesday, June 18, 2008, 2:36 PM
> 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
> >
> >
> >
> JT -
> 
> I planted dill this year for the first time at the request
> of my wife, 
> who likes it with salmon. I am yet to be convinced.
> 
> The chives contend with the mint for mastery of the herb
> patch, but the 
> oregano is staking a strong claim to at least a corner. And
> coming up on 
> the outside is rosemary, which also over-wintered (for the
> second year, 
> so I think I'd actually have to set that thing on fire
> if I wanted to 
> get rid of it - not that I do!) I also planted flat-leaf
> parsley (the 
> Italian kind), tarragon (for making my own tarragon vinegar
> among other 
> applications) and lemon thyme (which I don't much care
> for because it's 
> a low-growing, spreading plant and I am apt to step on it).
> 
> Having taken a well-deserved sort-of-day-off from work
> today, I mowed 
> and weed-whacked the lawn, then pulled out our eight or so
> lettuce 
> plants that have just got too tall and bitter. I then
> planted four new 
> basil plants (I've already got two) in our half-barrels
> on the patio.
> 
> So we should be fairly well supplied with the herbal side
> of things (and 
> no, I don't mean the smoking sort) come the late summer
> and fall.