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Nice recent harvests everybody! Great pics!
If you want to take a look at my most recent pepper pics, click on the link below.
Thanks.
Kevin
Here is a link that might be useful: Link to my post in the hot pepper forum
This post was edited by woohooman on Thu, Aug 8, 13 at 19:28

I love to grow eggplants and I love more eating them. I lov them fat an plumb because I cut and fry it, boil it and add vinegar and lemon juice and diced red pepper. I pickle it too. My woman like the long skinny ones she peels the inside and stuff it with rice and ground beef. I plant the black beauty and few trees of whatsmacall it to produce the long skinny ones for stuffing. When this thing works it over produce and the trees grow huge I had to put stakes for support. Last season I had 25 huge trees and now I just ate some pickled ones from a jar.

Sicilian are big and plump, good for eggplant parm, grilled, fried plain, sauteed in pasta and roasted. If picked early enough the skin is usually tender, except when roasting. Asian are smaller, ideal for dicing up in pasta and other vegetable dishes, good on cabobs on grill, and sauteed in scrambled eggs or omlets since there smaller. Both could used interchangably though. Asianhave less seeds so better for people who cant digest too many seeds cause its less to take out. In the past I found I got a larger abundant of sicilian. Sicilan coukd be very seedy for people with
some digestive problems.
This post was edited by krissylovesplants79 on Wed, Aug 7, 13 at 15:34


There is a guy named TravisE here who grew gigantic pumpkin that I think you should really have at look here at this address below:
http://forums2.gardenweb.com/forums/load/cornucop/msg0600431112829.html
The guy is really awesome! You should ask him about it!

Well, with the shriveling fruits, I guess my bees just aren't getting to all of them. My plants are too crowded. So that doesn't surprise me. I was just afraid it was something new to worry about.
By losing blossoms, I guess I mean there are many, many blossoms that just bloom and then wilt and die. Also, it seems like I have an inordinate number of male blossoms in comparison to female blossoms. Maybe this is normal. I just love my squash, and I want more of it.



Well, based on my gardening experience for many many years, you're getting a perfectly normal crop. I don't know why the little short chubbies appear. My guess is it has something to do with pollination. But, they do appear regularly, and, as you say, they taste just as good as the pretty ones. I wouldn't worry over much about it.


My favorite way to deal with them is to pick them off and feed them to the chickens. I figure they are improving the omega-3 content of the eggs. This year I stopped counting after removing 6 dozen but I am sure there are still more out there. No way that I would let that many be. If things are quiet enough, you may be able to hear them munching.



The goal is to have at least 1 pumpkin be harvested before it starts gettin cold. I doubt we have that many 80+ degree days left in this growing zone.
And here's the thing...there are side vines/branches beginning to sprawl over the collards & watermelon & such..and clearly, we all kno that they don't intend on stoppin anytime soon. Sooo, I'm wondering if I can snip those guys off, but keep any others that aren't strangling my others w/ their tendrils..
Sure. Your pumpkin may not grow as large as it might otherwise, but if that's not your goal, you can go ahead and prune.