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Post by chrysanthemum on Nov 10, 2022 18:55:41 GMT -6
My Beaver Dam peppers are loaded with blossoms and are putting on new fruit after their major prunings. I’m not planning to take steps to protect them from the cold that’s headed our way tomorrow because I don’t think they’ll be in real danger from it. They may not want to grow much more, though, which would be a shame. I really enjoyed the flavor of these, and we’ve actually used up that tiny bit of powder I made from the two peppers.
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Post by chrysanthemum on Dec 10, 2022 15:54:26 GMT -6
Both my little Beaver Dam peppers have fruit on them, but they’ve been growing only very slowly. The last few days have been particularly warm, though, but without much sunshine. The peppers must have liked it because the first one to set fruit seems to have increased noticeably in size as of this morning. We have some cold moving in next week. It shouldn’t be killing cold, but I don’t think the peppers will like it.
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Post by woodeye on Dec 10, 2022 22:03:51 GMT -6
That is awesome, chrysanthemum. So pretty and green in December. Cool...
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Post by chrysanthemum on Dec 11, 2022 7:17:59 GMT -6
I have been enjoying having green in the garden this month, I will admit.
The funny thing is, though, that it’s really green everywhere down here. The two predominant trees in this area are Live Oak and Ashe Juniper, and they fill the landscape with green. There’s something different about the green of growing vegetables, though, and it is very cheering.
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Post by chrysanthemum on May 29, 2023 15:35:12 GMT -6
I’m trying Beaver Dam Peppers again this year, giving them a shot in the spring this time, hoping for a larger harvest. Our family really loved the flavor of the powder I made from the dried fruit, so we’d like to make more. This particular plant had been my first to flower, but it got chomped that very night by what I assume was a deer that got in when I left the gate open inadvertently. Thankfully it has grown back and is setting fruit again.
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Post by chrysanthemum on Jun 27, 2023 14:52:19 GMT -6
It turns out that I have only one Beaver Dam Pepper plant. The other that I thought was a Beaver Dam turns out to be a Shishito. They got mixed up early in the season when they got blown off my table in a storm, I think, but I can’t even remember if that was this year or last. Anyway, that one plant had two peppers on it that I was trying to grow to maturity for seed, but those poor peppers have had a hard time. One had just started to turn red when I bumped it with the garden hose hard enough to detach the stem. It has been ripening inside my house, but it hasn’t fully changed yet. It’s still green where the lobes meet. The second one was growing nicely until two things happened at about the same time. There had been a volunteer pumpkin vine growing on a trellis right behind the pepper, and it succumbed to squash vine borers just at the same time that our weather turned really hot and sunny. The light green Beaver Dam pepper got a pretty nasty sunburn on it. Thankfully it has kept ripening and not rotted out. I don’t know how sunburn may or may not affect seeds, but I picked the pepper last night as today is supposed to be so scorching hot. Photos below of the sunburned one.
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Post by woodeye on Jun 30, 2023 19:37:46 GMT -6
chrysanthemum, I took a picture this evening of my Beaver Dam pepper plant that came from the seeds that you sent me. I have picked one pepper already because it had a blemish and was turning, but the plant is loading down nicely now. I counted 14 peppers on it tonight and it shows no signs of slowing down. I'm very happy with this plant even though it took it forever to start growing much when it was still here in the house. I was determined not to give up on it, but it pushed me to the edge of my patience with a plant. It was well worth the wait, again I Thank You for the seeds to get these peppers started...
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Post by chrysanthemum on Jun 30, 2023 21:34:52 GMT -6
Wow, Woodeye. That plant puts mine to shame. I’m going to need some pepper tips from you, I think. Mine did have the hardship of being browsed by a deer just after it set its first flower, however, when I left the gate open by mistake. Maybe your first tip could be, “Always close the gate to the garden when you leave.”
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Post by woodeye on Jul 1, 2023 4:34:05 GMT -6
That's it, chrysanthemum, removing the deer factor has been the answer for me this year. I got back from the Iron Curtain last night, got all comfortable in my recliner, was relaxing well when the thought occurred to me, "Did I close the gate when I left the garden this evening?". It's a gamble that I'm not willing to take, so I had to reverse the order of my comfortability & ride back to the garden to check. It turns out that the gate was shut and the snaps were in place. First time I've had to go back to double check closure this year, probably won't be the last.
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Post by chrysanthemum on Jul 1, 2023 5:11:30 GMT -6
I would not have been ready to take that gamble either. I double and triple check my garden gates these days, especially as it’s not unusual for deer to be within a hundred feet of the garden even while I’m working. Yesterday there was quite a majestic buck just strolling along up the hill from me. Usually it’s does and fawns these days.
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Post by woodeye on Jul 1, 2023 6:45:04 GMT -6
As I came riding back to the house from checking on the garden this morning, mama deer was in my yard. I had made a "note to self, garden gate is closed" when I left the garden this morning, just to tell myself that the gate was indeed closed. It would not surprise me to find out that mama deer had trotted down there to see if the gate at the Iron Curtain had been left open...🚫🦌
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