Farm 24 XL

[maskedsonnet]

Tonight's collected harvest!!

Scarfed down the tomatoes right after taking the photo, delicious

The cucumbers are ALMOST coming faster than I can eat them - but not quite!! Maybe one of these days I'll share with work, but probably not

The parsley I put in a cup of water like flowers, lbecause herbs wilt incredibly fast in my home otherwise and I won't be cooking for another couple days when it's time to meal prep again.

Didn't get to work on my gardens on my days off like I usually do, because of a whole lot of things!! Water heater sprung a leak, so had to get someone over to fix it. Went to get new tires put on my car a last week and the tech pulled me over to look at one of them, the tread had sort of... crinkled? It was worn in a super weird way, and he said I had a mechanical problem that I needed to have checked, so went and sat at the dealer for a few hours on Monday. Luckily it was just the alignment way out of wack, not anything more serious (or expensive!). Also had two job interviews on my days off, during which my laptop (because of Windows) failed me for the last time - WinBLOWS has been replaced with Ubuntu as my OS, and I'm already much happier. This is still a great machine, but Windows is a crooked company that has bricked my laptop for the last time. I'm never buying a personal laptop with a Windows OS installed on it again. Took me a while to back everything up, wipe the old OS out/install Linux, and get all my files loaded back on the computer though. All that paired with all the normal cleaning and meal prep and other chores around the house that I do on my days off, the gardens had to wait until after work tonight!

[Sher]

Lovely harvest!

You really did have a run of problems. Ouch at the time, inconvenience and money spent.

And I share your opinion of Windows. That's why, as soon as I retired and had no use for a powerful computer, I switched to an Android tablet. It's great for what I do -- and no more Microsoft!

[Shawn]

 You had quite the day(s).  I am sorry but glad in the end all is better now.

[campingcorgis]

Oh, dear!  That's a lot going on!  Glad that it is in the rearview mirror now!  Job interviews?  

Your harvest looks wonderful!!

[maskedsonnet]

Nov 25, 2021 9:58:32 GMT -5 campingcorgis said:

Oh, dear!  That's a lot going on!  Glad that it is in the rearview mirror now!  Job interviews?  

Your harvest looks wonderful!!

Yes! I’ve been trying to move around/move up within my company for the past 5 years - I actually went back and counted 90 jobs I’ve applied for within the company since 2016 and was only given an interview for 3. So the past month or so I’ve been applying for jobs with other companies and so far I’ve already had 2 interviews and 2 offers to interview that came in the middle of vacation that I wasn’t able to do, out of the 10 that I applied for. Much better odds there! Hate to leave after investing 8 years in this place, but I’m hella bored here too! Time for something new

[campingcorgis]

Good plan!  When we spend so much time doing something, being bored can be very hard...and detrimental too!  Wishing you wisdom to make the very best choices!

[mike]

Hi, how pleased are you with your Pot-A-Penos and are you still growing them? You have a wonderful garden here. How tall did the Pot-A-Peno's get?

[Shawn]

Let me say I wish you luck in your venture of going up in your job or finding a new one.4

[maskedsonnet]

Nov 29, 2021 19:55:32 GMT -5 mike said:

Hi, how pleased are you with your Pot-A-Penos and are you still growing them? You have a wonderful garden here. How tall did the Pot-A-Peno's get?

I am! They're the front two plants on the pepper side of my Farm. They're about 20" tall and covered up in peppers right now! Very pleased with the production and flavor both

[maskedsonnet]

After that last little explosion of productivity, the cucumber has slowed down at LOT. There is one almost ready to pick and tons of tinny cucumbers on there, so waiting to see if the babies start getting bigger before I end the project. But I'll admit, as much as I ADORE having cucumbers fresh in the winter, I'm getting a bit antsy to experiment with the summer squash!! Also the vine is becoming a bit of an eye-sore. I'm going to force some time into my schedule on my next days off to trimming and cleaning up all my plants - they're all getting a bit messy, but all the dead leaves on the cucumber are driving me a little nuts!!

A close-up of one of the pot-a-peno plants, the peppers are growing well here! And one is starting to turn red for me!

Another close-up, with the a happy yellow lemon jalapeno in the background!!

And last up, the sweet bonnet has started to put on peppers! This is the one I'm most excited about, since I've never tasted these peppers before.

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[campingcorgis]

Way cool!  

[mike]

Fantastic! Those peppers look longer than the Jalapeno M normally are. I need to go after mine this weekend. They are each tight spheres of dense compact leaves right now. Lots of blooms, though.

[Sher]

What beautiful peppers. It makes me happy just to see the pictures.

And you get to eat them! I share your anticipation.

[Shawn]

Great looking peppers.  AS for starting new gardens, I get like that too.  Always want to keep what I have but land up ending early if there was something else I wanted to try.

[maskedsonnet]

The cucumber plant is safe for now - tonight I fed all the gardens, refilled water reservoirs, and did some cleaning and trimming. In the process found more cucumbers!! And the little ones are still getting bigger. Also picked some peppers - the yellow ones are teeny lemon spice jalapenos, the rest of the peppers on the that plant are normal sized and I look forward to seeing them go yellow!! The red ones are pot-a-peno. The tomatoes keep coming in twos and threes that I gleefully gobble up right after picking them! The basil and parsley are also exploding, growing up into the lights, so I trimmed them back pretty hard.

[maskedsonnet]

Just tasted one of the teeny lemon spice jalapeños, and now I REALLY can’t wait for the full-sized version to ripen up!! Very sweet, with a very pleasant kick of heat. I LOVE the sweet/spicy combo, and if the full-sized peppers are the same I’m sure I’ll be growing it over and over!

[mike]

Is that the NuMex Lemon Spiced Jalapeno?

[maskedsonnet]

Dec 4, 2021 4:33:44 GMT -5 mike said:

Is that the NuMex Lemon Spiced Jalapeno?

It is! I love the colors they’ve bred, I’ve got seeds for the NuMex orange spice and pumpkin spice peppers too. I’ve grown them before, but it was the garden that got destroyed by thrips so I only got a nibble of a sadly deformed and tiny pumpkin spice pepper before having to terminate everything.

[mike]

I want to grow the yellow some time. The Pumpkin was a bust because of my air conditioner. But this time last year I grew the orange spiced pretty successfully.

[Sher]

maskedsonnet, your harvests are a joy to behold!

Wish I could start some of the lemon spice jalapenos now...

And mike, your pumpkin spiced may someday make it to my table.  I need more growing space!