BYC gardening thread!!

[Arielle]

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[Arielle]

Last night watered the new winter squash area as we didnt get any rain from the storm. Maybe a good thing as a tornado went with the cell that traveled south of us. They got rain and a tornado; we got nada.

 

[roseyred]

What do you guys think about starting peppers right now? I just opened up a green and red pepper for dinner and of course it's full of seeds. Think they'd be ready before winter?

 

[A-K-A]

I'd think you need a minimum of 100 growing days, 6 or more hours of sun. From seeds.

 

[hennible]

Depend on the season length and the variety, and a greenhouse or out door, pots or in the ground... I know I couldn't get peppers from seeding now here.

 

[hippiestink]

Yeah I don't suggest it. I have a lone Thai chili I planted two months ago in a pot and it's puny-looking. I won't be getting any peppers from it this season and I don't think you'll have luck unless you live in a tropical climate like Florida.

 

[whoop whoop]

Peppers are something that grow like weeds where we are.. I have orange, yellow and red and the chooks love them. Also planted chillies (really hot ones) and Henry my roo, took a bite and looked at me as if to say 'OMG these are really hot and soo good, come on girls)

'Consequently I don't have many chillies left. You would think that the heat would come out in the eggs but it doesn'tl

 

[lazy gardener]

Chickens don't have taste receptors for "hot". I bet Henry and his girls don't have any issues with parasites!

 

[whoop whoop]

No I don't seem to be bothered with anything, but we do have lots of ticks do you think I should check chooks for ticks? and can they give them tick bite fever? I have had a few sessions with my dogs and they get really sick - even with the frontline stuff. Can you put tick stuff on chickens?

 

[A-K-A]

Some of the southwestern hunting preserves plant chilis as part of food plot programs. Apparently deer don't mind them either. I always understood, peppers would grow year round either by climate or by manipulating it's climate. Grow house or a south facing window in the house