KDOGG331 -
What are special Russian pickling cucumbers? (Almost sounds like the prelude to a joke)
I had planted lots of Dragon Egg cukes (like a lemon cucumber in flavor, but smooth white skin and will not trellis), but the majority were eaten by some critter. The 10 seeds I had left went into a late planting and are now hiding out in the chard bed as I couldn't keep anything beyond sprouting in the one bed.
So with my jalapenos as little gnawed twigs, I decided to fill the row they were in with assorted summer squashes. Well, I didn't pull them out and those peppers rallied and now I have competing plants. Oh, and a volunteer tomato or two. Kind of a garden mishmash there, but I'm just happy something is growing and surviving.
Hornworms are the worst (well, the chickens beg to differ.) You notice maybe a lobbed blossom one day and the next day the whole stalk is stripped naked. Usually I can spot them early on, but I have gotten a UV flashlight to aid in detection. Thus far only two and the tomatoes are finally flourishing. The onslaught and crop losses this year have created an unusual love/hate relationship on gardening.
Chickadoodles --
Chipotle is pretty easy... They're just smoke jalapeno peppers. I halve mine, stem and deseed, and put them in the smoker. If they haven't dried totally dried out after the smoker, then afterwards into the dehydrator. Once crispy dried, into the grinder they go. If you like your powder spicier, leave the seeds in.
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