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Peppers - as received from ChilePlants.com - 4/10/2008
Spacing them out - 4/11/2008
Day 1 - Planted - 4/11/2008
2 weeks later - 5/1/2008
Tomatoes - 5/1/2008
Tomatoes & peppers - 5/8/2008
Superfantastic Tomato - 5/8/2008
Red Savina - 5/1/2008
Red Savina - 5/8/2008
Saturday is gardening day here in TX - and with the exception of last Saturday when I was in California, I’ve been outside tending to the garden as much as I can on the weekends. As you can see from the pictures above, things are growing like crazy. In fact, today I’m going to have to stake the tomato plants in addition to their cages because they are growing so tall the cages aren’t enough to support them. All the tomato plants have fruit on them with the exception of the 4 I recieved from ChilePlants.com - those are taking a bit longer but they did start about 4 weeks later.
The peppers are taking off - I couldn’t believe the difference in the plants in just a week. The habaneros in particular have seem to become a salad fest for a few bugs - so I’m going to use an insecticide soap to see if that helps. No other problems with bids or squirrels (yet). Only found one tomato worm about 2 weeks ago - and I’m happy to see that the beds are actually getting some earthworm activity as well.
Still have not had a water line dug so that there’s a water source nearby - but it’s been raining at least once a week here and when I need to, I’ve been dragging the hose from the front to the back. I’m thinking of waiting on the water line until the fall before I plant the winter crops - that way I can install an entire watering system at the same time. Anyone have experience with those?
**UPDATE**
Shed in a box - ala Lowes
Before
After
Spent Sunday getting a shed from Lowes and putting it together. This one is a Duraworx 8×6 model - I was originally going to go for a smaller one as we don’t have that much that needed to be stored, but it’s Texas and bigger is always the better choice. Assembly was easy - about 2.5 hours with 2 people. Only tool required was a drill - providing that your space is already leveled.
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Posted by: Nick Lindauer - Categories: Chile Pepper Information
Permalink: Pepper Garden Update
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Nick the garden looks great. Makes my little garden look small.
The truth on 5/10/2008 at 9:30 am said:
Nick the garden looks great. Makes my little garden look small.
heck that means blane would make you look small hehe
who said that you trying to start some sh$% today you white trash go back to the TTF. oh that was me
Thanks for the update. I was wondering how it was going.
Wish I could see it in person!!! Nice job Nick!
Looks great, I bet there is gonna be some insanely good salsa made at the Lindauer house this summer.
Will anything be ripe for the picking in the next 2 weeks?
i have my chili plants i got from chiliplants.com on a drip system. they are on a valve and i can regulate the water however need be. the were slow to grow once they got here but now they are doing great. my white habs, red habs, fatalli and bhuts are all bout 9-12 inches and have flowers on em. hopefully i can pick em before july when it gets to be a bit warm for em. 112 and above. good luck nick. the garden design, etc looks great.
generallee on 5/10/2008 at 5:39 pm said:
i have my chili plants i got from chiliplants.com on a drip system. they are on a valve and i can regulate the water however need be. the were slow to grow once they got here but now they are doing great. my white habs, red habs, fatalli and bhuts are all bout 9-12 inches and have flowers on em. hopefully i can pick em before july when it gets to be a bit warm for em. 112 and above. good luck nick. the garden design, etc looks great.
Wow, everything looks so nice and green!
nick
how many hours of sun are your peppers getting each day? morning ? afternoon?
LUCKY YOU. it’s gunna be 100 this weekend here. i had to put a 50% sunscreen over my babies cause 2 weeks ago when it got to 100, it burned the edges of the leaves. i think i got it under control now. gots lots o blossoms and i heard that usually leads to peppers. 
Brandywine, my favorite tomato by far!
I hear you’re in Conroe, I’ve got some family that way. Small world!
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I’m 41. What’s that got to do with the price of rice at JJ’s?
DK on 5/14/2008 at 8:56 pm said:
I’m 41. What’s that got to do with the price of rice at JJ’s?
I’m doing my part to feed the hungry at JJ’s free rice.
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I’m doing my part to feed the hungry at JJ’s free rice.
Where’s my comment from yesterday? And the comment by Anthony that’s been deleted as well?
There was nothing wrong with What I posted. I never received a notice from anyone as to it being improper and that it was going to be deleted.
Bret on 5/15/2008 at 5:49 am said:
I’m doing my part to feed the hungry at JJ’s free rice.
Bret, I just emailed you about my rice order. Thanks bro! 
@Nick
Where did you find the Red Savina Seeds or Plants? Get them from Jim?
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Great looking garden Nick, it sure beats mine.