I’ve heard of the LA green velvet, but never tried it. Should be a good variety. I know your a head of my planting schedule but you still might be a couple weeks early for okra. Okra loves warm/hot soil, it’s the last seeds I plant, usually late April here. I soak the seeds overnight before planting.
Those are both great plants, I’ve grown them before. Unfortunately over the last few years my Wife and I both have a little trouble digesting green bell peppers. So we’ve been planting yellow and red varieties, whatever the local nursery has that looks good. I love bell peppers, raw (except green), cooked, and stuffed with ground beef.
California wonders is what I put in today.
I'm lousy at growing okra, I always pick it too late, and it's like eating cedar bark. I grow good hot peppers though, at least my backyard heard think so.
Yessir. I last planted them 2 years ago, I couldn't give enough away. Last year I grew reapers, scotch bonnets, ghost chilies, habaneros, and jalapenos. The deer devoured them. Not the jalapenos too much, but the hot hot ones, they left me high and dry. They didn't bother the bells, or the lunch box peppers, but ate the chocolate peppers too. I was looking forward to trying those. Ah well, lest they are good. Had a good tomato year too. Those Cherokee purple grape size were Dee lishous. Id get my coffee and a salt shaker and head out to the patch for breakfast. Can't wait.
I never knew that danged deer liked them so much. We like to make salsa in verrying degrees of painful. occasionally well have to open the kitchen window and wear a mask. That's when you know it's gonna be a good batch.
Pick okra the length of your middle finger. You will have to pick every day to keep it in control.
Try this to control pepper eating deer. For years I have used a raw egg whipped with a fork in a cup then mixed with a quart of warm water, strained thru a wire sieve. Pour it into a spray bottle. Mist it onto your plants after dew is off. Renew after rains and every few days. It’s been cheap and effective for me.
My old tiller was the kind that beat you to death I was young and could handle it was using it one time and the axle broke off and the tiller ran across the ground I used to raise a big garden but it's been years and the ground has gotten super hard .I was thinking about trying to raise a bucket garden take 5 gal buckets and raise some lettuce radishes and onions with some tomatoes.. sounds like you know a lot about gardening what type of dirt do you think I need to do that if you don't mind me inquiring.
We can’t handle hot peppers anymore either, but we do grow Banana peppers that are sweet to mild. They do great at home.
Growing in a bucket isn't any different than in the ground, good composted top soil mix in some vermiculite , voila! I usually drill 6- 3/8 or 1/2" holes in the bottom of the bucket for drainage, cover with a piece of landscape cloth, a couple 3 inches of gravel, then fill it with dirt Voila! This year I'm planting Green, Red and Yellow or Orange peppers, Sugar Snap Peas, a hill of Green Beans, Maters 2 diff cherry types and 1 slicing, Zucchini, Crook Neck Squash in buckets, Pickle Cukes go in the raised bed.
Is creole a variety of tomato? I got 3 varieties of Heirloom tomatoes in the ground already and probably won't put anymore in (this year) but you have me curious about the "creole". Heirloom?
