Gracias, amigo.Looks stunning as always @iRONic. I actually planted a couple of wisteria last year after seeing the pics of yours. I hope that eventually they look as beautiful as yours do.
It's gonna smell amazing!! Don't worry about your pruning. After the flowers fall off is the perfect time for you to train it the way you prefer. You really can't kill it unless you dig it up!Hey @iRONic the wisteria I planted last year are getting ready to bloom! I'm really excited because they are loaded with buds! I know mine are young compared to yours and I haven't done the best pruning job on them but I can't wait to see them bloom.
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Sounds like a lot of work. IMO it is rewarding work though. What kind of plants are you going to plant in your raised beds?
That particular bed will have jalapenos and a shishito pepper. The biggest bed will get 3 tomato plants of different varieties, the smallest bed will get two ancho/poblano peppers...and maybe some herbs.Sounds like a lot of work. IMO it is rewarding work though. What kind of plants are you going to plant in your raised beds?
Nice, I really like raised beds/planter box gardening. They are so much easier to take care of. We have a few and everything that we plant in them does fantastic even through the summer heat. Anyway, I love me a good jalapeno. Are you growing a specific variety or just the heirloom type? I tried a couple of shishitos last year and they were just ok. The walls were to thin for my liking and to many seeds.That particular bed will have jalapenos and a shishito pepper. The biggest bed will get 3 tomato plants of different varieties, the smallest bed will get two ancho/poblano peppers...and maybe some herbs.
FWIW, these aren't raised beds in the traditional sense where it's just a box of dirt sitting on the ground...these are planter boxes that sit a couple of feet in the air...similar to this: (but not nearly as fancy)
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Just whatever variety Home Depot was selling. This will be out first year trying the shishito peppers. Something my wife saw on one of her HGTV or Food Channel shows.Nice, I really like raised beds/planter box gardening. They are so much easier to take care of. We have a few and everything that we plant in them does fantastic even through the summer heat. Anyway, I love me a good jalapeno. Are you growing a specific variety or just the heirloom type? I tried a couple of shishitos last year and they were just ok. The walls were to thin for my liking and to many seeds.
Makes sense. I also watch a lot of cooking shows and shishitos are becoming more and more popular. I'm a fresh eating kind of guy when it comes to my peppers so that might be why I was just ok on them. I do use peppers in my cooking so maybe I just didn't realize their full potential.🤷♂️Just whatever variety Home Depot was selling. This will be out first year trying the shishito peppers. Something my wife saw on one of her HGTV or Food Channel shows.
I like the tall raised beds because with my back and knees, it's easier for me than getting down on the ground to tend to things.
I’d LOVE to find some jalapeños with heat in them. I like the flavor of the capsicum annuum varieties. Sweet with heat. Not such a fan of the C. Chinesnse varieties. They’re usually MUCH hotter, but the underlying flavor isn’t as appealing to my taste buds.Makes sense. I also watch a lot of cooking shows and shishitos are becoming more and more popular. I'm a fresh eating kind of guy when it comes to my peppers so that might be why I was just ok on them. I do use peppers in my cooking so maybe I just didn't realize their full potential.🤷♂️
Anyway, I know you said you got the jalapeños from HD but if you and your wife ever shop at a local store be on the look out for some hybrid jalapenos because they are amazing! I'm hooked on one from Chef Jeff called Mucho Nacho. It's a jumbo pepper with thicker walls and a more consistent heat versus other heirloom varieties.
Post some pics when you get your boxes done and your plants planted. I would love to see them!
Try fataliis! My absolute favourite chilli! You'll hate it as it has that scotch bonnet/habenero taste thing going on but I have to pimp it as its my fav!I’d LOVE to find some jalapeños with heat in them. I like the flavor of the capsicum annuum varieties. Sweet with heat. Not such a fan of the C. Chinesnse varieties. They’re usually MUCH hotter, but the underlying flavor isn’t as appealing to my taste buds.
Since we moved to WA, “HOT” jalapeños are a rarity. Doesn’t matter whether they’re from a grocery store, farm stand, or out of my greenhouse…”warm” seems to be the best I can get.
I’d LOVE to find some jalapeños with heat in them. I like the flavor of the capsicum annuum varieties. Sweet with heat.
I like fresno chiles, but the walls are too thin. Serranos have a lot of heat…I grow those most years.
Introduce a herd of deer to your neighborhood. They'll do an outstanding job of keeping everything pruned short.This is a maple tree that I rehabilitated over the last five or six years. The lower trunk was a twisted tangled mess with all the suckers being left to grow unchecked. All pruning wounds have healed very well.
Now I'm faced with a dilemma… how the fuck do I keep it from growing out of control?!?!
Seriously though, it's the perfect size and in good health. I just don't wanna damage the plant by retarding the growth in the wrong manner.
Dunno what it is. 10 years ago I used to get mosquitos here, I had to work on my bedroom to keep them out. I haven't seen or heard a mosquito in Berkeley for must be 6-7 years. Not one. I suppose vector control is doing the job. I try to make sure I don't have any kind of standing water, but somehow the broader community is obviously likewise doing great. I hate them skeeters.Looks like this year, I have a bumper crop of mosquitos...had one or two on Monday...3-4 yesterday...today, swarms of the hungry, biting bitches. (because, yes, it's the females who do the biting)
Time to get my Dyna-Trap out and fire it up.
Just behind my back fence is a state wildlife wetland. No matter how much I try to control the skeeters...they're an invading force.Dunno what it is. 10 years ago I used to get mosquitos here, I had to work on my bedroom to keep them out. I haven't seen or heard a mosquito in Berkeley for must be 6-7 years. Not one. I suppose vector control is doing the job. I try to make sure I don't have any kind of standing water, but somehow the broader community is obviously likewise doing great. I hate them skeeters.