I plan on dehydrating some and making a spicy chicken rub. I use the Scotch Bonnets to make spicy pickles. Scotch Bonnet is probably my favorite "hot" pepper.

In order as of yesterday. Finally got a Trinidad Scorpion to set, picked the first habanero, Reapers are rocking, so are the Scotch Bonnets. And a Red Naga turning red.

Been getting a bunch of tomatoes, zucchini, yellow squash and bell peppers. Waiting on my okra to start setting fruit. My lettuce quit growing in this heat but I got a lot of great salads (lettuce, tomatoes, bell peppers, carrots and strawberries fresh from the garden) so I'm happy.

Cukes are coming in nicely and pickled my first batch last night. I have so many carrots still so I tried pickling some of them too. If I like them, I can probably get another ten jars with what I still have in the ground.



Thanks for all your help.

That's a good question, I haven't a clue how to use them. It's been fun watching them grow, neat little plant.

I have seeds for at least the current top 10 hottest peppers in the world. I plan on growing them and dehydrating or preserving them somehow. I am going to have some type of shelf made to display them on and call it the wall of pain. I told my wife about this wonderful idea. She said it's pretty much the dumbest thing she's ever heard of and at best they will be able to be on a wall in the garage.

BC I appreciate your honesty about the peppers. Derek I am pretty sure your wife is the smart one in your household.Lol

Derek how did your grocery store garlic turn out?

They actually turned out really well. Granted I planted them way too late. I pulled them last weekend because I was tired of looking at them and cleaned up that bed to plant more peppers and tomatoes. But I was surprised the bulbs were good size. I haven't tasted one yet though. This year I plan to order some and get them planted in the fall.

I've always used store bought garlic in my garden, but the cloves have been small. About a 1.5 months ago, my wife had some store bought garlic with massive cloves, I took 5 of them and planted them with the hope that by winter I can have healthy cloves to plant for next years harvest. The plants are now about 10 inches tall, so hopefully my plan will work. You gotta try...

I'll add that store bought garlic, whether small or large, is easy to grow and works well. I'm just tired of my particular varieties small cloves. They're more work to peel for cooking purposes.

I planted mine all along the outside of my onion bed. I was fertilizing my onions every couple weeks with Ammonium Sulfate. The garlic seemed to really love it too.

I did the same thing. Ammonium Sulfate is my only fertilizer.

That's your lawn fert too right? Are you spoon feeding it weekly with low app amounts.

Awesome! Glad to hear that. Looks like you have everything you need for some kick a$$ salsa.

It is. For the lawn, I probably apply 4 times a year. For the garden, every 3 weeks or so.

My lawn doesn't look healthy right now, so don't take any lawn advice from me...

Interesting note on garlic that I read about. The size if the clove you plant will be the size of the cloves that grow. If you plant small, they will be small. Never knew that.

Thought I would put up a pic of my Tycoon tomatoes. The heat hasn't slowed them down much if any. They are still putting on blooms and making fruit. I had originally decided not to cage them since they are bush type plants. Well when we had the 50mph winds it beat them up pretty good and I couldn't cage them then. They are 60 days old so I figure another 2 weeks before I start picking them.