Pictures from the pepper garden

This is a pic of one of my Naga Jolokia plants. I need to pull a few weeds as they are starting to get out of hand.
These are my Turkish Cayenne peppers. I hope they will be ready in the next few weeks.

Super chiles are one of my favorite to grow. Hot and very plentiful. I have a total of 8 plants and they are all doing great.

f course we cant forget about the Jalapeno. Again, I have 8 of these plants. It wont be long before the next Jalepeno harvest.

Oh I love my cayenne. Most of my cayenne will be dried and made into powder. I have 8 of these plants, so I should have enough powder to last me until next harvest season.

I received these seeds in trade from a fellow chile head. I was told they were banana peppers, but they seem awful big for banana peppers. I have not tasted one yet, so I will know soon enough. If this is a banana pepper, then this is the biggest banana pepper I have ever grown, heck, the biggest I HAVE EVER SEEN!

All of these pics were taken on Aug 15th, 2009.

Before and after Tomatoes

The before pic were taken June 20th, 2009 and the after pic was taken Aug 8th, 2009. We have had one red tomato so far, but there are hundreds if not a thousand green tomatoes on the plants now.

Before and After Pepper Garden

Here are some before and after pics of my peppers. The first 2 pics are of the big garden and te other 4 pics are of the pepper beds I made out of 2x6's which are 4' x 4'. Each bed holds 16 plants. The before pics were taken June 20th, 2009 and the after pics were taken on Aug 8th, 2009.

Before and After Flower Bed

These are the before and after pics of the flower bed.

1st Pepper Harvest

These Hungarian Yellow Wax peppers were picked Aug 15th, 2009. They are the biggest wax peppers I have ever grown.

These peppers were picked Aug 8th, 2009. The peppers on the left are mini sweet peppers and Jalapenos on the right. This was the first pepper harvest of the year.

New Hydroponics system complete!

OK, so I completed my new hydroponics system today. It is currently only half full. The system is using the drip method. Gets watered for 30 minutes then off for 1 hour when the sun is out. It also gets watered twice throughout the night. This is completely experimental and my method will change as I learn. I am not using hydroponics nutrients at this point since we do not have anywhere around here that I can buy it. I built this in 1 day and did not want to wait for the nutrients to come in the mail. So, I am using miracle grow and epsom salt as the nutrients. I do not know if this will work or not, but I will keep you posted. I am leaving for Tennessee tomorrow and this will be unattended for the next 7 days, so hopefully they are still alive when I get back. More will be posted then.

Tomato Garden

So I moved my tomatoes this year. We don't use our clothes line anymore, so I figured this to be a good spot for my tomatoes. I like this section because it will allow me to walk around and harvest tomatoes, which will make it easier. Again, this year, I have my trusty fence cages for my tomatoes. I need to make some more, but have been busy. I have planted 6 Big Boy, 6 Roma, and 4 Early Girl vareities. I should have plenty of tomatoes for making salsa, and everything else I would want a tomato for. These plants were also started in the greenhouse.

Backyard Chicken

This is our backyard chicken. We have family in Tennessee, so when we are down there, we pick us up a baby chicken. We bring them home, raise them until our next trip to Tennessee. Then we take the grown chicken and swap it for a new baby one. It is nice to be able to raise them. The main reason for taking them back down to Tennessee is in case we get a rooster. We live in town and our neighbors would hang us if we had a rooster.

My Completed Greenhouse

OK, so this is the greenhouse I was talking about building in an earlier post. I could not have asked for it to turn out better. It has served me so well this season. It is a 12x12 and was fairly cheap to build. I had started about 1000 pepper plants, some flowers, tomatoes, pumpkin, cantaloupe, etc also. If you have any questions about building your own, please feel free to message me or email me.

My Pepper Garden

Ok, so again, it has been a long time since I have posted. I say that I will try better at posting, but it seems like I always forget. Anyways, as you can see, my pepper garden is looking very nice. In the first pic I have 9 rows of peppers. They are Jalapeno, Cayenne, NuMex Chile, Super Chile, Banana, Big Dipper, Mini Sweet, Habanero, and Naga Jolokia. They were all started from see in my new greenhouse that I built from PVC pipe. The second and third pics are of the beds I had to build for my peppers. I did not want to till up my entire back yard so I built these. Between the 2 planters, there is 23 different peppers planted in them. I still have at least 2-3 more to build in order to plant the rest of what I want to.