Category: Gardening
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The Slug Wars are Over
I hereby declare victory over The Slug Wars. Today I have eaten my first full-sized ripe strawberry. The victory came by way of realizing I should raise my containers off the ground. It only took one day of picking off slugs and pill bugs to realize the dream. And I have yet to see another…
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My War With Slugs
I have a slug problem. They’re everywhere in my yard. And they love my strawberries. So much so, I rarely get to eat them myself. I searched for solutions, and there’s not many that I liked. One of them in particular though, stood out as so completely obvious that I feel stupid for not realizing…
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Getting Serious About Growing Milkweed
I volunteered to help plant some milkweed at the local creek with a fellow Rotarian. Since I dabble in gardening, I asked him what plant could a hobbyist grow in their suburban yard at small scale and offload at a farmer’s market? He suggested milkweed. Of course though, he is completely biased as someone leading…
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Found Shishito
I finally found a Shishito pepper plant! I’ve been looking for quite a while. It wasn’t until a happened upon a little known boutique nursery called Lowe’s. I walked in and saw it sitting right there on the shelf like it’s just supposed to be there no big deal and all. Ok, that’s sarcasm. But…
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Slugs
Welp. There goes a newly germinated squash seedling. Thank you, slugs. Am I unlucky for having my brand new plants destroyed? I don’t think so. First of all, I wasn’t even sure what was eating them and now I know for sure. And that happened because it started raining and I honestly don’t know what…
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Overwintered Pepper Plants Now in Spring
Last fall, I overwintered my chili pepper plants in a greenhouse. That turned out to be kind of a useless endeavor. In Zone 9b, the greenhouse would get very hot during the day. And at night it would still get cold. Slightly less cold because of the greenhouse, but it was still in the 40’s…
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Moved Peppers to Greenhouse
We are well into fall and have moved the pepper plants that I didn’t know were perennials to a greenhouse. With the temps rapidly cooling and night time lows in the 50’s F, I picked up this popup version. It’s kind of a neat little greenhouse and fairly inexpensive. I don’t know what to expect…
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Chili Peppers are Perennials
Man, I am so pumped. I just learned that chili peppers can live all year long ( if they don’t freeze ). Growing hot peppers has become my absolute favorite thing about gardening. I never seem to know what to do with other vegetables when they ripen. It seems weird to me. Like, here’s a…