Hot peppers extinguished!

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That is a real bummer thistle!
I hear peppers go good with moose steak LOL.
As a Seahawk fan says Theres always next season!! :he
 

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The worst part of it is that both times it froze I could have limited the damage by covering them. So it's totally my bad.
I seem to be suffering from a touch of garden apathy this year.

The moose is out of my control! We saw her yesterday browsing on a neighbors new trees. She just reached up and pulled the whip down nearly in half and stripped the leaves off. I honked and she strolled off leisurely, not really concerned. She was probably done with that tree anyway.

I'll be freezing what I harvested. That seems to be the best use for us. Last year I pickled several pints and they were grossly unremarkable, in fact, we still have most of them.

Mary suggested I plant 200 next year, haha! I had to laugh at that! :D
Actually I should only put in what I'm able to take care of.... so maybe I'll do one.

Well as Collector said, there's always next year. Trouble is, I've lived with myself long enough to know that the resolve and determination I have right now to work harder at my garden next year could change with whatever circumstances arrive at the same time. This year it was too much outside work-for-money -work. I need to learn my limits.


I'm going to look up moose recipes now...
 

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Did your tomatoes not make it either? Sometimes I'll measure, prep and freeze peppers or tomatoes to can later. Sometimes it's just because I can't get to them at the moment! :p
 

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ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh Thistle. Hang in there! lookin for a hang in there smiley...

:hu

Couldn't find one, but this might help...

:hugs

So many of us are having one hard time or another. Poor so lucky has been off for 5 days with both eyes gone bad, nachoqtpie's been off since early august, someone had a terrible haunting summer of no bugs, several endured drought, I got these wasps bugging me, someone had a bunch of thieves break in, some are working against an early frost.

One of our campers boat got invaded by 14 million, 283 thousand, 412 little tiny gnat things that all left itty bitty carcasses in their boat. It even partially collapsed their boat cover.

Sometimes it's just time to :th on the bed and start over again tomorrow.

This might help a bit too

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Awwww... thanks Marshall! I'm not complaining, in fact I'm very thankful and grateful for the blessings my life is overflowing with. And anyway, it was laargely due to my own negligence. Next year!!

Journey- yeah the tomatoes got hit with the June frost, came back, and got the final wipeout with this one. They were loaded too! Oh well, I'm digging the spuds today, so I'm hoping for a biggish crop.
 

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Fingers crossed that this is your best potato crop ever! Thank Goodness Moose don't like spuds! I was going to dig mine today, but it poured last night... I would rather not start with muddy potatoes! Good luck!
 

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NwMtGardener said:
Oh crap! Like you said, at least there's some. I brought my green Thai Hot dragon peppers in and hung them upside down to dry, hoping they'd turn red in the drying process...I think that's possible, right? Picked them 2 nights ago with the garden exodus when I was so worried about the 28 degree temps, neither night got anywhere near that low, 32 one night and I think hubby said he saw 40 when he got up today.
If they're inside or it at least gets fairly warm during the daytime then any that were full sized for a week or two may manage to ripen before drying out or rotting. Full sized doesn't necessarily mean the full size of prior peppers, their own individual full size may be smaller at the end of the season.

You might speed up ripening a bit if you put some in a paper sack with a fruit that produces a lot of ethylene gas when it's ripe like one or more of the following: apricots, avocados, bananas, cantaloupes, honeydew, kiwis, mangoes, nectarines, papayas, peaches, pears, plums, tomatoes
 

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thistlebloom said:
. . . I seem to be suffering from a touch of garden apathy this year.

The moose is out of my control! ...[/i]
You have that jawb, Thistle'. It is all about gardening, if I'm not mistaken. No wonder you want a little distraction from it when you get home. Then there's the "mechanic's car/carpenter's house" syndrome.

Lot's of things are beyond our control - what kind of soil we start off with, weather, meese . . .

I think I'm beginning to see TEG's role in all of this - to combat apathy, disappointment & fatigue. We need to do better
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