WhiteCliffsFigs
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How do you like them? I’ve been considering planting them.Correct.
How do you like them? I’ve been considering planting them.Correct.
Your Vecchio di Puglia look good, but I would like to see photo of your Roma tomatoes field. Do you trim side shoot, do you stack them to columns ? I have seen photos of harvesting and processing Roma tomatoes, but not the place where they are grown.This is my favourite pepper. It came as a family heirloom. Got it from a guy from Puglia... so I call it Vecchio di Puglia. I would guess around 10,000 SHU + sweetness. I love it.
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I cut them up... salt, press and pack them in EVOO with garlic... Good on almost everything!
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I have no idea. I’ve never able to grow decent strawberries, so that bed is a mix of varieties from me trying to find one that would do well.That looks pretty ! What are those strawberries called ?
It may be some variant of a cutworm. Just guessing, so definitely could be wrong. Cutworms destroyed my spring plantings a couple years ago. All my pepper and tomato seedlings were fell like trees by them. If you see one of them, you definitely have more. They come out at night/early morning to eat.I caught it eating my onions. What ever it is, it no longer lives in my garden.
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I started with a couple of varieties and now have six. Everyone in the family loves them. They are like much larger, more flavourful wild blueberries. Superb flavor complexity.How do you like them? I’ve been considering planting them.
Beautiful berries.Blackberries are coming in quick today!
Also, my compost that always seems to turn into a summer raised bed for whatever seems to germinate
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This is amazing!!!!We've been picking some amazing strawberries from our own patch, but definitely not enough. So this morning, we went to a local pick-your-own strawberry farm. Picked some really nice ones. Malwina, Valley Sunset, and Jewel IIRC. Delicious.
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For me, if I don't get my strawberry fix in June, I am not a happy person all yearWe used to go to a pick your own farm. Haven’t been in years though. Need to go again, those look amazing and make me want some now.
Mine are all thornless, bred varieties. I have 2x Ponca, 2x Von, 1 Osage, and 1 Ouachita, but now that they’ve been in ground a couple seasons they’re starting to sprout up extra shoots away from the initial row and I don’t know what all is necessarily what anymore. The size of the berries on some of them are definitely impressive though!!Went out in the field and picked some wild blackberries this morning. They weren’t bad and not as many seeds as before. Nowhere as large and pretty as those.
She knows what peppers are lol. She doesn’t touch. Anything that slightly resembles peppers. Hahaha. Grew those last year.Grow some Carolina Reapers. It might fix that problem.![]()
Starting to see blooms forming on my Hydrangea tree also.Here’s some new things today. My Hydrangea tree is blooming and the Robin that made a nest in it now has 2 babies in it. Also 1 of my giant leaf basil has been up potted and the other two cups have 3 each in them need to be separated. Also my cuttings are getting bigger and soon will be up potted too.
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My brother won a hot pepper eating contest in Philly, came in first place. My brother and friend Norma, I've never seen people like these two eat hot peppers like they can.Beautiful! Did you eat it? I love spice but the super-hots are too much for me. I tap out around 40-50,000 SHU's
Young garter snake?? Hard to tell..I spotted this caterpillar today. I don't if it's something that is harmful to my plants or not. Anyone know what kind of caterpillar it is? When I first saw it, I thought it was a small snake because of the color pattern on it. The first pic is the caterpillar and the second pic is a small snake that I caught this spring. I released the snake in the backyard unharmed.
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I grew up in California and I don't know all the snakes here in Texas. I looked at some online pics and I think it's a water snake. We live by a lake.Young garter snake?? Hard to tell..
We have a good garter snake population going on this year, so far I've spotted 3 different kinds.