Today in the garden

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This spring when we were picking out plants I found this Hot Poblano Pepper, well actually a pack of 6 of them. Planted then and they are going great guns. They are now just producing peppers to pick and today was our first test of them.

We have had store purchased one, we have grown our own but I should have know something was up as the plants looked different this year. Perhaps the word "HOT" should have been a clue.

For those who are not into such things poblano's are normally called a mild pepper. I really like the flavor of them so it was exciting to have our first one of the season.

I took a half of one and cut it up to put in my taco salad. Boy was I surprised! This pepper is HOT. Well not to the scale of some other peppers but way hot for a poblano.

Now it has been a strange year for the garden anyway so maybe it is year, this is also a new garden box with composted soil....... or maybe the label meant that this is a new variety actually called "Hot Poblano". I did not find a reference to that name on the web.

Tomatoes are not yielding much this year, I'd say we are loosing 70% of them to dry rot and birds and or what ever else seems to like to take chomp out of them and leave the rest. Uneven rains and a hotter summer so we are also getting sun damage. Our regular green peppers seem stunted, out of the 6 plants only two are robust and producing while the other 4 are hardly worth keeping in the soil. Zucchini plants got attacked by something that bored into the stem were it goes into the ground. Only got a couple off the plants and now they are wilting, all 4 plants are the same condition.

Green beans are doing well and I'm not sure what to do with all of them. Maybe they love the weather? We tried a new bush version so maybe that is it, row of about 10 feet really put out the beans.

Onions have all but given up for the season already, tops are over and the onions are golf ball size..... might just save and reseed next spring.

Peas did well this spring, they of course are done out and we need to get our fall seeds in the ground soon. I think they are better in the spring but a fall planting will yield a smaller harvest and be easier to use up since we don't freeze or can them.

Did Red Russian kale this year. It is holding up well in the summer heat and other then the color it is pretty much like the green versions.

Our local farm stand that we like was open this week so we got our first local corn of the year. MMMMMMMM good! The corn later in the season is always the sweetest, the farmer plants 4 different types that come in one after the other, each time getting sweeter. Last year with selling our house up north and having to make many many trips up there we missed out on the last variety, when its sold out it's gone.......

Years like this I sometimes wonder if gardening is worth it. We get what we get and share with the animal population so I guess they would miss it too if we didn't do it. Just after 41 or so years of doing a garden I think it might be nice to just hang up the hoe or just go to flowers.....

So how is everyone garden doing this year?

Ed

[ERLover]

My garden is the Farmers Market and road stand by mom. Corn has been exceptional, beets great, beans great. Melons and tomatoes arnt in yet locally. Onions good.
I use Poblanos a lot, never had a hot one, but mine are store bought.

[Ed in Tampa]

I have pretty much hung up the gardening. My neighbor who is a heritage seed fan, claims it is seed problems and not changing growing conditions. Their claim is that seeds have been genetically modified and will only grow properly in conditions they have been engineered for.

I will say her heritage seed tomatoes did spectacularly this year.

[sawmill]

I planted some hot peppers this year and they were doing great. They were loaded but not ready yet. Along came the deer and the pepper plants were just stems the next morning. This year I planted my taters and squash plants in wood chips. I have plants from there as high as my shoulders. I told my wife that e will have to have a ladder to pick squash. The taters all grow in the wood chips and do not go in the ground. I moved some chip last week and got a handful of golf ball size ones to have with green beans

[thunderbirdbat]

The birds and bees have decided to eat my fruit even before it gets ripe. I lost all the fruit off of two peach trees and about half off of one of the apple trees and one of the pear trees. But on the bright side I have already canned 17 quarts of tomatoes and 4 quarts of applesauce. The bad part is it is all going to my son.

[davebodner]

The deer eat hot peppers? I never knew.

[garys]

The deer eat hot peppers? I never knew.

You must have really dumb deer. I won't eat those things. Rabbits won't eat them, squirrels won't eat them, and even insects won't eat them. That should tell the deer something.
I don't believe peppers are part of any known food group.

[sawmill]

The deer eat hot peppers? I never knew.

You must have really dumb deer. I won't eat those things. Rabbits won't eat them, squirrels won't eat them, and even insects won't eat them. That should tell the deer something.
I don't believe peppers are part of any known food group.

I think my deer are imports from south of the border. They must have liked them as all they left was the stems

[ChrisNeilan]

The deer eat hot peppers? I never knew.

You must have really dumb deer. I won't eat those things. Rabbits won't eat them, squirrels won't eat them, and even insects won't eat them. That should tell the deer something.
I don't believe peppers are part of any known food group.

I think my deer are imports from south of the border. They must have liked them as all they left was the stems

You could build a wall around your garden! (and no, that was not meant to be political!) More appropriately called a fence!

[BuckeyeDennis]

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You could build a wall around your garden! (and no, that was not meant to be political!)

That would need to be a mighty tall wall!

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