See other Science/Tech Articles
Title: Hey Horse!
Source:
Esso
URL Source: http://freedom4um.com
Published: Aug 2, 2025
Author: Esso/Pacman/Cap'n Brandon
Post Date: 2025-08-02 17:43:54 by Esso
Keywords: None
Views: 19230
Comments: 57
Can you tell me what's going on with my jalapeno plant out front? For the second year, my plant in front of my house, with a southern exposure (Full sun) is producing small fruit and almost all of them are red. The plant is healthy, probably three foot tall. I get my start from a gypsy joint in New Haven every year and I don't remember this problem before. I still use them to cook with, but can they be getting too much sun or something? They're in a planter about a foot deep and may get pretty hot with the weather lately. I'm pretty good about watering them and fertilizing with Miracle-Gro and 12-12-12 when I transplant them. My 'Big Boy' tomato plant on the north corner of my garage towards the east is doing great, but is in the ground. It's as tall as Kimmy now and has a ton of fruit on it. The first two 'maters were small (between a golf ball and tennis ball), but the start had two blossoms on it when I got it around Mother's Day. I'm really curious as to what's going on. Give a brother a hand if you can. I used to do a big garden when I was married before the accident, but I can't do that anymore, I'm too banged up, man.
Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread
Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest
Begin Trace Mode for Comment # 45.
#4. To: Esso (#0)
I have a theoretical knowledge of gardening which is why when I start a homesteading collective I will be recruiting experienced gardeners at least half my age.
How many 30- to 40-year-olds have any practical experience at growing a garden or even how to sprout seeds? Those single line of green beans will barely produce enough for a few meals in most locations. I was using a Troy-Bilt tiller and recommended wide rows which would produce much more veggies. It takes a lot of planning to grow a garden. I had tomato trellises that form a triangle and you would place it around the plant. The tendrils of the plant would grab onto the wires and grow up inside the trellis. This way the tomatoes would not lie on the ground and rot. I offered soil testing back in the 70s when I was doing custom garden tilling. One customer when I told them they needed blood and bone meal for Nitrogen and Phosphorus, they refused to allow me to add those amenities because they were vegetarians. I told them they were not eating the blood and bone and that it broke down to release Nitrogen and Phosphorus. But they would not listen. I had to make substitutions. I used Sphagnum Peat for Nitrogen. I told them they needed to wait two weeks to plant seeds since the peat robs Nitrogen when it starts to decay and then releases it back later. No telling how that affected their seed bed if the rain shower matted down the seed bed before they got to plant seeds. ;)
I got some sort of vine that started drilling into the exterior brickwork of my house so I kicked at them until they fell away, then I kicked at them a little more until they were coiled safely away in the rocks. I think it's some sort of Holly, but I am negative on anything that burrows, be it mortar or mud.
According to Wiki, Holly can be an invasive species. ;)
Damn, almost every shrub on the property has thorny leaves like that. The vine thingy has very distinctive five leaf per node, which made me think of like Christmas holly.
That sounds a lot like Virginia creeper. ;)
It is this, just no berries yet. I am sure they will appear soon. I am just going to cut/kill it, it grows really fast despite my token efforts, but mostly it sends little tendrils into masonry, I can't have that.
Cutting won't kill it, compare the price of wood seal and concentrate weed killer. Spray on at full strength, a cheapy hand pump sprayer will work for either, throw the pump away when finished. Only other thing is dig down until you can pull out the root system be thankful it's not kudzu any root pieces left in the ground become new plants.
Something similar to this has been flying around my back yard all afternoon. I think it's what was hanging out on the step yesterday, except the one out here had a fatter all white abdomen and the lifting surfaces of the wings were small squares, so overall the thing looked like a cross between a checkered flag and a box kite. The one today is fascinating, it is in complete control of its movements but will sometimes just float on the air seemingly out of the pure joy of being able to do so.
Dragonflies are good to have around since they eat mosquito larvae. ;)
I am still trying to figure out which variety of dragonfly set me off in this quest. I've seen thousands upon dragonflies even in my life, but this thing had wings like a box kite with apparently clear membranes constituting the remaining lift required by laws of fluid dynamics to navigate without direct regard to Earth's gravity.
You could say the same about hummingbirds. Their metabolism is so high they ne we d to feed every few minutes. I was sitting on a bench out front by a neighbor. There was Cardinal flower blooming next to the bench. A female Roufous hummingbird swooped in to sip nectar from the flower. It sure was not afraid of me. ;)
#46. To: BTP Holdings, Dakmar, 4um (#45)
I was going to say something to you dorks, but I went out in the garage to have a smoke and forgot. I had a Monarch butterfly that visited me for a couple summers, but the feds told me not to give the kook behind me that thinks he's Satan a free shot by keeping my garage door open. Guns & drugs, the FWPD is involved as a bad guys. My sister saw it a couple years ago, she couldn't believe it. I only open the side door that's not in line-of-sight. There's a little wild bunny that sits between the house and the arborvitaes that keeps tabs on me now that Angie died. It might be her. I should put out some lettuce or fruit or something.
Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest
#5. To: Horse, Esso (#4)
(Edited)
I have a theoretical knowledge of gardening which is why when I start a homesteading collective I will be recruiting experienced gardeners at least half my age.
#6. To: BTP Holdings (#5)
It takes a lot of planning to grow a garden. I had tomato trellises that form a triangle and you would place it around the plant. The tendrils of the plant would grab onto the wires and grow up inside the trellis. This way the tomatoes would not lie on the ground and rot.
#7. To: Dakmar (#6)
some sort of Holly
#8. To: BTP Holdings (#7)
#10. To: Dakmar (#8)
five leaf per node
#12. To: BTP Holdings, ghostrider, Esso (#10)
#13. To: Dakmar (#12)
#15. To: ghostrider, Esso, BTP Holdings (#13)
#43. To: Dakmar (#15)
#44. To: BTP Holdings (#43)
#45. To: Dakmar (#44)
(Edited)
dragonflies
Replies to Comment # 45.
End Trace Mode for Comment # 45.