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Rural/Farm Life

In reply to the discussion: Hows your tomatoes?!? [View all]

jcgoldie

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10. If you find a solid greenhouse thats affordable I want one too
Thu Jun 27, 2019, 10:44 AM
Jun 2019

Ive thought about making one pole barn style and covering it in corrugated plastic but no $ for that yet.

Heres something a little crazy I take my potted plants mostly palm and banana trees in the basement overwinter because I dont have enough south facing windows and no greenhouse yet. I had a bunch of peppers, poblanos serranos and guajillos in small clay pots that I had started in peat pods at the start of the year and never found room in the garden. So I drug them in under the LEDS wondering how long they would produce into winter. Well I thought it was pretty much a failure because evidently the lights werent strong enough to keep them flowering and I got almost zero peppers BUT they were still alive looking emaciated and grey come spring so I carted them back outside... wham they went crazy. Sprouted new leaves everywhere and they already have huge peppers ready for the grill salsas whatever while the ones I started this year are barely 8" tall. I told my wife they are zombie peppers they dont even know they should have been dead a year ago!

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