Your 2025 Garden

[Nomadicus]

I grow French marigolds for the garden. I read that the nematodes don't like them. I plant them at the base of my tomatoes and throughout the garden. It seems to be helping. I check roots when I pull plants at the end of the season. I have read it is added to some brands of layer feed for it's effect on yolk color. I've found pumpkins, carrots, butternut squash and greens do this as well.
I am wimpy when it comes to hot peppers.
I grow sweet bells and a couple cayenne. I make pepper vinegar with cayenne.

I did grow an ornamental pepper in the past that sounds similar to the one you mentioned. It was supposed to be very hot but I did not taste it.
I thought it was very pretty and nothing bothered it. No deer or insects.

Gotta have that pepper vinegar on my greens and summer peas.

 

[Nomadicus]

I've about got a seed order about ready for cucumbers. I have enough extra cattle panels now for 100' row. We have a new farmers market in town now that has a booth for $40 for the season I think. With all the things we grow I should earn a little spending money. I'm sure the Mrs could find something needed in her craft room if any is left over after I order two new breeds of chicks.

 

[Nomadicus]

I have some seed for a wild native to FL small hot pepper that makes the absolute best pepper vinegar. I hope they germinate. The plants are perennials. They were very plentiful growing wild in FL orange groves until herbicides replaced crews with hoes going through the groves clean weeds out of the groves. Workers left a pepper plant every so far. Mocking birds love them and they kept them spread far and wide. I'm going to plant them in a mobile planter so I can bring them under a roof and protect from any future freezes and especially those sneaky blizzards that can and will blindside us down here.

 

[Nomadicus]

Okay so grow light question: has anyone used the multicolored lights and do they work? All the grow lights I’ve ever used have been white.

Mine are adjustable. Can be all red, all white, or all blue. Adjustment is for the stage the plant is in and whether it is for transplanting or setting fruit in a green house. The 3 switches for each spectrum of light can be seen here on the bottom and end of the fixture. So far I've had no complaints on how they operate and the coverage I get out of them. The 46" unit will cover 4 10x20" trays that can hold up to 288 started plants during germination and early growth.From what I'm seeing now I will soon be using 4 lights for growing plants to field setting size. I'd rather use the lights indoors than to have them outside where bugs can get to them as well as chickens in search of a tasty treat.

https://www.lowes.com/pd/Good-Earth...trum-LED-Linkable-Plant-Grow-Light/5005536095

 

[NanaK]

Gotta have that pepper vinegar on my greens and summer peas.

Yes! Me too!
This is something that might sell well at a farmer's market.
I have found by using white vinegar the peppers keep their bright color longer. I like to add a couple to my bottle each year. It keeps getting better with age.

I have a few folks that want a bottle. I will be making some for gifting.

 

[Nomadicus]

Yes! Me too!
This is something that might sell well at a farmer's market.
I have found by using white vinegar the peppers keep their bright color longer. I like to add a couple to my bottle each year. It keeps getting better with age.

I have a few folks that want a bottle. I will be making some for gifting.

Once Thanksgiving we were at a cousins house and they had made it in a one liter wine bottle. One was just old enough to be good and they had a well aged bottle that was very old and very, very good. For local market pepper vinegar tobasco peppers work well.

 

[Justagalwithchicks]

Okay so grow light question: has anyone used the multicolored lights and do they work? All the grow lights I’ve ever used have been white.

I have a purple grow light that I love. My other ones are just the white but will be adding a purple one again this year. Every time a white one dies I plan on replacing it with a purple..

 

[R2elk]

They no longer sell Northern Exposure tomato seeds. One plant is now two plants.

 

[Nomadicus]

I've got some of those air layering devices on my to order list to use with muscadine grapes. Those are very handy for rooting woody stems. I may have to root some tomatoes this year like the above for a fall crop off of the spring planting.

 

[Nomadicus]

I have a berry patch where there is room for one row of summer peas between the rows. One row of blackberries didn't survive where the others thrived. I'm resetting that row with raspberries today I hope. Then start preparing the middles for summer peas. If I start tilling now I'll kill a lot of weeds. I'm thinking of trying to start more raspberry and blackberry plants using air layering on the right canes. If they will root and then spread from the roots making more canes it will work.