So What's In Your Garden?

[MRSOUND]

I finished weeding out my pepper garden this evening and got to thinking:wondering. What are others "nurturing" to maturity in their bag yard and what might they be making with it that's different from the norm. I started growing hot peppers 3 years ago when a co-worker & I decided order some seeds off the internet (from pepper joes) and grow them to spice up some dishes. I ended up with way more peppers than I knew what to do with so I searched the internet for something I could make with them before they went bad. Found a recipe for pepper jam! Instant hit with friends and co-workers (who end up purchasing most of my labors) Now I have over 75 plants of various hot peppers from jalapeno to ghost peppers. Great on crackers with cream cheese, on burgers/sandwiches, and I even use it as a glaze on pork and chicken. So what's in your garden & what do make that might be unique or different?
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Jalapeno bounty from sunday
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Used some seeds from last years harvest....have no idea what these habanero's cross pollinated with:confused:
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Tasmanian habanero
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Tasmanian habanero cross pollinated with purple "fireball" pepper
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Butch T Scorpion - Succeeded the ghost pepper as hottest in the world
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Also have Jamaican habanero, ghost, Carolina Reaper, Purple, and the pornographic Peter pepper.

[jays375]

Fawns came through last week and ate most of it.:mad:

[MRSOUND]

So what did you have? I put up 36" rabbit fence around my garden to keep them wild critters out of mine. (mostly rabbits)

[blue27]

I had a 79 Z50 but had to move it for tomato plants

[atc007]

Deer have eaten ALL of ours except 10 ? Plants out of $74 of seed :mad::mad::mad:. I told everyone I wasn't doing a garden unless I Electric fenced it. But let my family and neighbors talk me out of it... Darn deer lol. That is breathtaking Mike,,SOOO great to see gardening being done !!

[Bren_downe]

My gardens pretty sad this year, peppers won't grow, tomatoes are way behind, peas already come and gone beets are very small. Although I am really good at growing rocks and weeds.
My favorite is late winter/early spring. We bust out the 55 gallon drum evaporator and start tapping maple trees for maple syrup!

[hoosierlogger]

I went on the light side this year. I got strawberries, thornless blackberries, sweet corn, 18 tomato plants, 12 broccoli, 6 cucumber plants, 3 zucchini, 12 bell peppers, 2 habanero, 12 jalapeño.

We make jam, salsa, pizza sauce, pasta sauce, pickle spears, wine , and tomato juice from out garden.

[ColtonGG33]

All I have is weeds :lol: haven't done a garden in like 4-5 years :(

[MRSOUND]

The only other things I planted besides peppers are watermelons. Lesson learned on planting them in the same garden as my peppers. They have taken over (smothered 2 rows of pepper plants. I keep pulling them back and pruning them. If I do melons next year it will be in a separate location. Thats why on the first post the picture of the garden at the far end looks "full". 4 plants and they just took over. Even have a couple that grew outside the fence!

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[ColtonGG33]

Mmmmm water melon

[JayBone]

Here are 2 links to one of the coolest sites for odd items. (Well i think it's cool). The site isn't easy to navigate though. So you have to be patient. Anything from all kinds of tubing, plexiglass sheets, Teflon (for your chain tentioners & rails), PVC stuff, plastic caps etc. It's insane.

First is for square watermellon boxes:
http://k-mac-plastics.com/square-watermelon-cases.htm

Here is the home site:
http://k-mac-plastics.net/

[hoosierlogger]

The square watermelon box looks cool, but not for $110.