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Post your 2014 Garden Plans

OKgrowin
10 years ago

Just wanted to get an idea what everyone's going to be doing this year.

Where you growing? (raised beds, containers, greenhouse in Antarctica etc)
What you growing? How many?
Soil, Water, Fertilizer plans?
What time you hoping to get started / transplant?
Pics welcome!

Comments (10)

  • OKgrowin
    Original Author
    10 years ago

    Where you growing?
    Flowerbeds / 5 gallon buckets

    What you growing? How many?
    Carolina reaper, Moruga Scorpion, White habanero, chocolate habanero, kung pao, jalepeno, mini bell, and poblano
    2 or 3 of each plant hopefully

    Soil, Water, Fertilizer plans?
    Soil: napa floordry+pinebark+perlite
    Water: maybe drip lines in beds (helps my foundation too lol)
    Fertilizer: Some organic kind, fish emulsion / earthworm castings / guano

    What time you hoping to get started / transplant?
    I'm germinating next week, hope to transplant in early april
    Pics welcome!

  • thundertoe
    10 years ago

    Where you growing?

    pots, grow bags, and an experimental raised bed
    this is my 1st full growing season, so i'm trying to see what works best. i started late last year, and ended up with a bunch of healthy plants with not much fruit

    What you growing? How many?

    cajun belle
    prik chi faa
    purple jalapeno
    black jalapeno
    black hungarian
    peter pepper
    caribbean red
    bulgarian carrot
    white habanero
    chocolate habanero
    red fatali
    yellow 7 pot brain strain
    bhut jolokia
    aji lemon drop
    datil
    marconi
    chocolate beauty

    hopefully 2-3 of each in pots & bags, and the leftovers go in the raised bed

    Soil - whatever's cheap at home depot
    Water- rain and tap
    Fertilizer plans - alaska fish emulsion, bone meal, blood meal
    What time you hoping to get started / transplant?

    i've got month-old sprouts of half of that list under grow lights already, and i just started germinating the second wave yesterday

    i didn't initially plan to grow that many varieties, but every time i ordered seed (from four different suppliers) they'd throw in freebies, so what the hell

    i hope to be able to transplant by march, we'll see. i'm in houston, so there are good odds on the weather being on my side

  • seysonn
    10 years ago

    I have a plant to grow ALL my peppers in pots, due to the lack of garden space.>>> ALL IN POTS.

    The soil to fill them (about 15-20) will be PINE BARK BASED. That means about 50% small pine bark nuggets. Other 50% will be different but will be one or more of the following :

    PEAT MOSS, PERLITE, COMMERCIAL POTTING MIX, CCOMPOST.

    Germination: I am in the process of shifting into it. My plant out time will come mid April, the earliest. So plenty of time there.

    VARIETIES:
    HOTS: Habanero, Thai, Korean, Hungarian HW, Manzano, Fresno, Tabasco, Serano

    Milld n Sweetst: Chilaca, Gypsy, Cubanelle, Anaheim, pepperoncini, shishito,

    PURPOSE:
    Basically, I grow peppers mostly as VEGETABLE to be used at any stage, in cooking and salads. For the sauce couple of Habs, Thai, Korean should be enough for my household use.

    CURRENTLY:
    I have Shishito, Hab, Tabasco going. I just sowed a few more today.

    BTW
    I did not want to get into my non-pepper plans. That is too long.

    This post was edited by seysonn on Sat, Jan 4, 14 at 3:34

  • oldfixer
    10 years ago

    10 tomato plants along the fenceline, where the weeds thrive. Early May.

  • Elbourne
    10 years ago

    I plan to start germinating Huge Bell, Giant Mexican Rocoto, and Trinidad 7 Pod Brain Strain in the next week or so. I ordered seeds today from pepperlover.com

    I probably should get some jalapenos seeds too. Last year I bought a trey from Lowes. they did very well, but the bell peppers turned out to be anaheim. You never know what you are going to get from a big box store.

    I will plant them in a raised bed. I am a little concerned though, because I am going to plant them in my smaller bed that doesn't get as much sun as the bigger one. I'm saving the larger bed for okra and tomatoes this year. Unless I get brave enough to till up part of the yard for the okra.

  • judo_and_peppers
    10 years ago

    Where you growing?
    the 275-300 sf back yard of my condo.
    What you growing? How many?
    that's a long list. mostly superhots, some superhot crosses, some hab varieties, and a few randoms.
    it's gonna be roughly 40 plants total.
    Soil, Water, Fertilizer plans?
    cheap potting soil mixed with perlite and bone meal
    fish fert, MG tomato fert, and this year I wanna try cal mag.
    What time you hoping to get started / transplant?
    I've already started 29 varieties, and intend to get the rest started this weekend. I live down in sunny FL, my seedlings have been outdoors up until tonight where I finally had to bring them in. the adult plants are still out there.

    Pics welcome!
    soon

  • ka0ttic
    10 years ago

    Where you growing? Pots, grow bags, and 1 small in-ground plot. All my peppers will be in pots and grow bags. The small plot is for watermelons.

    What you growing? How many?
    I'll be doing squash, cukes, watermelons, beans, eggplant, tomatillos, and tomatoes but as far as the peppers:

    2x Jalapeno M
    2x Datil
    2x Cute Stuff Red
    2x Hungarian Wax

    Ancho San Luis
    Fatalii
    Cajun Bell
    Trinidad Scorpion Butch T
    Carolina Reaper
    Naga Morich
    Indian Carbon Bhut
    Choc Scotch Bonnet
    Trinidad Congo
    Trinidad Douglah
    Yellow Brain Strain
    Thai Hot

    At the very least I'll be doing two of the top 4 on the list. Hopefully I'll have the room and containers to do 2 of the others...

    Soil, Water, Fertilizer plans?

    Soil: I'll be experimenting a little with the container soils. Some will be in 5-1-1 and some will a homemade mix more like commercial potting soil. Trying to keep it organic, which will be tough to do with 5-1-1...

    Water: drip lines in the watermelon bed; tap for the containers.

    Fertilizer: Probably Dr. Earth veg fert in combination with homemade fish/seaweed emulsion (it rocks owning a cast net near the beach!)

    What time you hoping to get started / transplant? Ugg going nuts waiting! lol. I'll be starting germination of the peppers in about a week once I get into my new house. Once those are going, I'll start on the toms, and then everything else.

  • User
    10 years ago

    Funny you should mention Antarctica. We had two ways of -40 C/F (same temp in both C and F) this past week. Spent a few cold nights planning my grow list for 2014.

    This year I'm trying to catch up with a bunch of varieties in my inventory I haven't gotten around to growing. Some seed is pretty old so I don't expect to have as many varieties listed below when germination is done. If everything germinates, it was nice knowing you, my GF will kill me!

    Where you growing?

    5 gallon pots

    What you growing?

    I'll cull to one of each:

    Aci Sivri
    Aji Cito
    Aji Lucento
    Bhut Jolokia
    Bhut Jolokia - Chocolate
    Bhut Jolokia - Yellow
    Bih Jolokia
    Black Pearl
    Brain Strain - Yellow
    Cambuci
    Carolina Reaper
    Cayenne - Long Red
    Chervena Chujska
    Chile Costeno
    Chinese 5 Color
    Cosa Arrugadade
    Ethiopian Brown Berbere (true)
    Fatilli
    Guajillo
    Habanero - Condor's Beak
    Habanero - Peruvian White
    Habanero Golden
    Hungarian Red
    Jamaican Yellow
    Manzano
    Mulato
    Naga Jolokia (PC-1)
    Numex Espanola
    NuMex Mirasol
    NuMex Sandia
    NuMex Sunrise, Sunset, Eclipse
    Onza Roja
    Pasilla
    Peru Scarlet Lantern (PI 315028)
    Peruvian Serlano
    Peter Pepper - Orange
    PI 181864 (aka Aleppo)
    Piquillo
    Piri Piri
    Pitanga Amarela
    Poblano
    Rain Forest
    Red Ruffle
    Rocotto
    Rocotto Amarillo
    Santaka
    Scotch Bonnet - Jamaican MOA
    Seven Pot Douglah
    Seven Pot Jonah
    St Martin Purple
    Sweet Chocolate
    Tequila Sunrise
    Trinidad Scorpion ButchT
    Trinidad Scorpion Chocolate
    Trinidad Scorpion FG - yellow
    Trottoloina Amorosa
    Vietnamese Tear Jerker
    Xigole

    Soil, Water, Fertilizer plans?

    ProMix BX with occasional 20-8-20 fert.

    What time you hoping to get started / transplant?

    Starting in the next couple of days. I'll be out of town for two weeks but a friend (fellow grower) will be watching them for me.

    Bill

    p.s. I'll be saving seeds from any successful grows so If anyone sees anything in my planned list that interests them let me know.

    This post was edited by ottawapepper on Mon, Jan 6, 14 at 8:17

  • seysonn
    10 years ago

    Bill, that is some impressive list there : over 50 . Good luck and have a good 2014 season.
    My list is about 12 varieties. I am also shifting into germination mood. This is going to be my first time to get into peppers. I usually grow no more than 5 varieties.

    Talking about cold ( -40C = -40F), and 17 hours of nights.

  • dac596
    10 years ago

    Will plant in wooden pots on deck.
    aji amarillo, keriting, santa fe grande, golden treasure, and two tomato varieties.
    MG potting soil, MG fertilizer every two weeks.
    Start seeds in March, transplant in mid=May.
    I use tomatoes and sweet peppers for fresh eating and the hot peppers are dried and ground into powder.

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