Good morning!!!!

[toppop52]

Drew, in that picture with the worm parts, the peppers look like banana peppers. Are those hot too? I grow sweet banana peppers that are not hot, but I know there is also a hot variety. I also grow green and yellow bell peppers and love them. Your first photo looks to be a yellow chili pepper and I see some jalapenos too. Were the plants mis-labelled when you bought them?

Today is supposed to be the last hot hot day for awhile. The forecast is for 97 F today and then no higher than 80 F tomorrow. BRING IT ON! We also have a 70% chance of rain tomorrow so I'm hoping my yard and garden get a free treat and I get to not spend 1/4 of my day watering something.

When I was a kid in northeastern NC, we grew bell peppers, chili's and a bunch of others. Sometimes the bees would cross pollinate and we'd end up with hot bell peppers.

 

[Larro Darro]

Partly cloudy, 80 with 89% humidity. Forecast calls for 60% chance of rain and a high of 84. When I got to work at 8:30 it was 77 with 95% humidity. As the one falls the other rises, so it is still as muggy as it started off.

Cool thing happened to me at work last night. One of my customers ask if I remembered her. I see so many people in my job the faces just blend together, so she had to refresh my memory. It turned out she had taught Jazzersize here 22 years ago. Which would have made her one of my first customers. As soon as she told me who she was, I remembered her. She had been living with her husband's family while he was in the Army. Her and her two little kids needed passport photos since they were going to join him in South America. Back then the closest place to get that done was across the river in Bristol, and she didn't have a car. Margie and I took her and the kids to get the photos made, with a stop for ice cream cones along the way.

The ice cream was the only part I remembered. Her daughter was three and her son four, and we had just bought a new car. I worried about the seats until they got those cones ate.

She called her kids over to meet me. They are 25 and 26 now. Both good looking well, mannered young people. Her husband came in and walked over to where we were. She ask him had we ever met. They are a black family, and he is a pretty big guy. He was looking down at me like how do you know my wife. When she told the story, he shook my by the hand and thanked me for helping his family out. It made me fee good, even though Margie was the one who volunteered us.

 

[Bird]

Our LOW temperature this morning was 80 and going to 99 according to the NWS. I took the dog for a half hour walk at 6:30 this morning, then got out my electric hedge shears and trimmed the shrubs, mowed, edged, and trimmed our yard and one next door, then raised the front of the ZTR and washed the bottom side of the deck before letting it down and washing the whole mower; dried it with a combination of compressed air and sunshine.:laughing: Now the NWS is showing a 20-60% chance of rain every day and night for a few days, but I'm not too optimistic, so I strung out the hoses and set the sprinklers so I can just turn the water on in the morning before daylight.

 

[sodamo]

71F, .41 inches rain since midnight

Have a great day

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[sodamo]

Great pic from Drew and Roy.

Last time I tried growing peppers, not much luck, but hope to try again even though wife doesn't eat them except she likes the hot type out of a jar - go figure.

Really nice looking property Roy.

Just got the call, my radiator is ready to pick up. Sure hope the reinstall goes easier than the uninstall.

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[DABSGT]

Drew, the thinner long light green peppers look like Hungarian hot, the dark Gerry long look like Italian hot and the wide light green look like frying peppers normally not hot, god looking garden. My wife froze a few gallons of blueberry's if we beet the birds may have enough to last winter.

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[daugen]

thanks guys for the pepper forensics.
how long do you let the hot peppers grow before picking?
do they change colors? Just wonder when to pick them, to give away..., and
don't want to pick them too early.

Picked another row of potatoes today, we now have about fifty pounds, at least in buckets at home, ready to be hosed off and given to neighbors.
No matter how humble a potato is, people like them.
If I can't bake them with something else, I like to steam them on top of the stove. I just don't like to microwave veggies even if it does work, my
experience is it makes too many things chewy. So I'll steam away, though not with a pressure cooker. Had that as a kid and we often wondered when my mother would blow
up the kitchen with it. Something about putting vegetable oil on the rubber gasket, back when a pressure cooker was a pressure cooker and not an ied.

 

[Larro Darro]

thanks guys for the pepper forensics.
how long do you let the hot peppers grow before picking?
do they change colors? Just wonder when to pick them, to give away..., and
don't want to pick them too early.

I go by color when I can. The Jalapeno will turn dark green when they are ripe. But also by how easy they come off the plant. Just lift up on the pepper, and if it comes off it most likely ripe. But if I was you, I would leave a couple of the lite green ones to see if they do change color. Did you buy mislabeled plants, or did someone give them to you?

 

[jinman]

I go by color when I can. The Jalapeno will turn dark green when they are ripe. But also by how easy they come off the plant. Just lift up on the pepper, and if it comes off it most likely ripe.

Exactly! I like to let a few jalapenos go all the way to red before picking. I think it makes them a bit sweeter. I use your same picking style. It's amazing how the peppers just fall off when you raise them straight up.

 

[daugen]

I think instead of six or eight little hot pepper plants going into the flat of green pepper plants,
it got reversed.

 

[sodamo]

Picked up my radiator, good job, really clean inside:





I decided to split the shroud and repaint it



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[Larro Darro]

This is what Margie was doing while I was at work. This is about half a week's worth. Now she is turning them into poppers while I watch the truck race.



I saw a few of my Jalapenos were deformed. Do you all think this is a pollination problem, or what? The bees in my bee tree left last summer and haven't came back. I see lots of butterflies, some real little bees, several kinds of wasp and even flies on the flowers.

These two are the worst.

 

[MossflowerWoods]

Up at 0530. I love "Playdate Sunday" it is the best day of the week.

Be well all,
God Bless,
David

 

[ronjhall]

Got first cup of coffee poured. 63° this morning with clear skies. this morning. Heading to 88° with lots of sun and humidity today. Going to be a relax day. Then NASCAR in afternoon.
Good Morning All.

 

[toppop52]

Foggy and humid going into the 90's today, water logged world right now around here.

 

[Bird]

It was 78 here when I got up and now down to 75.:laughing: And in spite of the forecast 80% chance of rain, I've got the sprinklers running front and back. The radar so far shows the heaviest rain going by west of us, lighter rain going by east of us, and nothing down the middle.

 

[bakerg]

Foggy here also, supposed to be in the high 80s today. No rain in site and the farmers are going like mad harvesting their wheat.

 

[toppop52]

It was 78 here when I got up and now down to 75.:laughing: And in spite of the forecast 80% chance of rain, I've got the sprinklers running front and back. The radar so far shows the heaviest rain going by west of us, lighter rain going by east of us, and nothing down the middle.

Bird, that's how it was for us last year, for months when there were a few showers, they just missed us. Literally once it rained on the south end of the airport and not us, the fence to the airport is about 300 yds from the rear of my property. Their rain gauge had .7" that day and we got nothing. It's very frustrating when you feel like you live in a bowl of sand.

 

[2LaneCruzer]

Whoo Hoo!!!!! Thunder woke me up at 6:00 am...Beautiful, cooling, refreshing rain...75 degrees!

 

[daugen]

yuk
but then isn't this an every day occurrence in many places?
I bet a high of 95 would be welcome in spots.

just makes me want to go dig some dirt and move it around in my ac cab. Because I finally can...:thumbsup:

* Heat index values... around 100 degrees each afternoon Monday
through Wednesday due to forecast high temperatures in the mid
90s... and dewpoints around 70. There will be little relief from
the heat overnight with low temperatures only in the 70s.

this is my last week in a hard collar. Lovely weather for it...