happy it is done.

[peppero]

i have been digging/pulling up arugula. basil. eggplant, peppers and tomatoes and potting them so i can carry them over in the greenhouse for the winter.---- i move so slow now it has taken me parts of three days to get it done.---- if i do as well as last year about 75% will survive.---- it is so nice to go out in the winter, look at them and get a head start on next years crop.---- it amazes me that some of the peppers that did almost nothing for most of the season have produced so many blooms as well as luxuriant growth.---- some broccoli that appeared to be dead for some time has sprouted and have developed into wonderful plants.--- this has happened with collards and kale also.---- mind you, i am not complaining. i hope you folks had a good garden year. maybe mine will be better next year. jon

Jon,

My "in container" plants were horrible this year. My "in the soil" garden was great. I wish I had a greenhouse to move some stuff to. I have some beautiful hibiscus and palm plants which will surely freeze this winter and require replacement in the spring.

Ted

[clkeiper]

Peppero, I so totally understand. I had no lettuce, no cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower this spring. It is finally now growing. Way too hot and dry here for the crop this spring/summer. We had about 4 months of dry here and I just couldn't get them watered like rain water does. I hope you have a great winter crop of them.

[peppero]

ted i built a small(6x12) sheltered one back around 1990 from materials on hand. i have alot of trees so it was sheltered during growing season but got plenty of sun when i was raising plants so it worked very well. it has a low ceiling so i could not hang hardly much of anything. the next one is 8x12 and has a much higher so i have hooks and it will hold a lot. i was able to build it for about $25-30 because i got some free plate glass from a restaurant be refurbished and some windows i had plus some that a friend salvaged. i only had to buy screws and posts. the rest i had on hand as friends are always givimg me things. it is attached to the porch on the south side of the house so it is sheltered from the the north and gets sun from the south. i am really enjoying it. maybe you can come up with one that will suit your needs. you would really enjoy having one. i wish i had picture capability. jon

[peppero]

Originally Posted by clkeiper

Peppero, I so totally understand. I had no lettuce, no cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower this spring. It is finally now growing. Way too hot and dry here for the crop this spring/summer. We had about 4 months of dry here and I just couldn't get them watered like rain water does. I hope you have a great winter crop of them.

maybe both of us will do better next year. i have not done well for the last three years but. i am always optimistic about the next year. jon

Originally Posted by peppero

ted i built a small(6x12) sheltered one back around 1990 from materials on hand. i have alot of trees so it was sheltered during growing season but got plenty of sun when i was raising plants so it worked very well. it has a low ceiling so i could not hang hardly much of anything. the next one is 8x12 and has a much higher so i have hooks and it will hold a lot. i was able to build it for about $25-30 because i got some free plate glass from a restaurant be refurbished and some windows i had plus some that a friend salvaged. i only had to buy screws and posts. the rest i had on hand as friends are always givimg me things. it is attached to the porch on the south side of the house so it is sheltered from the the north and gets sun from the south. i am really enjoying it. maybe you can come up with one that will suit your needs. you would really enjoy having one. i wish i had picture capability. jon

I've thought about it many times and even bought wood ( wood runners and posts) for it last year. I used the wood to build a new deck instead of a greenhouse. I will probably try again this winter. I have a salvaged building materials outlet near my house where I am sure I can buy glass windows and doors for almost nothing. I also have a "Habitat For Humanity" retail outlet for salvaged materials which sells almost everything I would need. For now it is on my wish list of projects to start when I feel motivated and bored.

Ted

[Redbaron]

Originally Posted by clkeiper

Peppero, I so totally understand. I had no lettuce, no cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower this spring. It is finally now growing. Way too hot and dry here for the crop this spring/summer. We had about 4 months of dry here and I just couldn't get them watered like rain water does. I hope you have a great winter crop of them.

Isn't that ironic? This year I had the best spring ever for brassicas. We had broccoli comming out our ears. In fact I try Brussels sprouts every year and every year they fail. But this year was the first year ever I actually got any. And I got a BUNCH of the tastiest Brussels sprouts. Best I have ever tasted! Same with Cauliflower!

[clkeiper]

I usually get a crop. We had no rain from May to Sept. HOT and dry was the daily word. Then we had a frost on Oct. 5th which was about two weeks earlier than normal. I had beans, peas and peppers to get a crop from yet.......needless to say eventually they succumbed to the weather even though it eventually warmed back up some I wasn't able to save them. I do have a greenhouse that I planted a crop of tomatoes and peppers in about the first of July and I am still picking those, BUT the amount of wood it takes to heat it to get them to the ripe stage is waaay more that the cost to go buy them, but these taste ever so much better.

[whistech]

Peppero, good evening. I can sympathize with the slow moving! I hope your plants make it through winter OK. I have read where several people are have had the same experience with their pepper plants this year.

[peppero]

Originally Posted by whistech

Peppero, good evening. I can sympathize with the slow moving! I hope your plants make it through winter OK. I have read where several people are have had the same experience with their pepper plants this year.

i usually have a tabasco plant that is huge and this year was no exception. it was covered with peppers and took a long time to pick them. i cut it back and put it in a 3 gallon black container with a potting mix of my own. it is so hard to cut them back when they are exceptionally well developed. peppers seem to thrive when the days are cooler and the nights are in the 50s or 60s; they are so lush. jon