Kochia (tumbleweed) is the number one thing I DONT MISS about living down in America, or anywhere this vile plant grows. We had it in Texas & N. Dakota and every spring you’d want to claw your eyes out due to it’s allergic itch! I hadn’t thought about it for a long time but just the mention of the name
gives me another thing to be thankful for this morning!
I was just browsing (procrastinating on some boring work I have to do, actually) and came across your list. I must have 30 varieties of peppers in my seed box and not a single one in common with yours! It amazes me how many different varieties are actually out there compared to a typical seed catalogue’s offerings.We finally got the *mouse* in the house, though it turned out to be a vole. No wonder he was so bad at staying out of sight. Feel much better now about the seeds' safety, but I guess voles don't really eat seeds anyway. He did eat a significant portion of a small throw rug under the couch though.
All my pepper seed for 2024 are here, happy dance. So many nifty names in this bunch, really interesting combinations of letterswhich I'll never likely pronounce. I hope there are gems lurking in that pile of little envelopes. I'm posting the list in case anyone has grown some of them and has experience/opinions on them? Pretty soon we'll all be dreaming of new seeds for 2024...
With so many new ones to try I just might be able to finally have the resolve to only grow one plant of each variety.
- Broom
- Chile de Onza
- Cacho Black
- Cuzquerio
- Dulce Italiano
- Dulce De Espagna
- Fuszer Csipus
- Hatvani Eros
- Kapia Paprika
- Naso Di Cane
- Piluca
- Pimento Chorizo
- Pimento Cristal
- Portokalova Fifironka
- Santa Lucia Red Seasoning
- Sulu Adana
- Tollis Sweet
- Trilop Uchburum Bider
- Sonoma
- Datil Sweet
- Gypsy
- Ruby King
- Sweet Melrose
- Pl 427-291
- Ancient Sweet Red
- Sweet Red Bell
- Early Sweet Red Bell
- Aleppo
- Piquillo de Lodosa
- Large Sweet Antigua
- Targu Mures
- Kari Sitanana
- Aji Monagre
- Bola
- Corazon
- Dolmalik
- Ferenc Tender
- Florines
- Grueso De Plaza
- Kampanaki
- Morron de Fabrica
- Numex Halloween
- Nora
- Nocturne
- Verato
- Yaki Blue Fawn
- Pimento Pera Dulce
- Portugese Goat Heart
- Santa Lucia Sweet
- Tobago Season
- Pepperoncini Lombardi
- Yesil Tatli
- Turkischer Gewuir Papricka
- Semorah Early Sweet
- Trontarolo
- Urfa Bider
- Piquillo
- Jalapeno Orange SHort
- Chile Black
- Pimento Picon
- Manganji
- Valentine's Day Purple Pepper
I'm pretty sure that somewhere on the Hudson (or, at least, somewhere that flows into the Hudson), there must be a big patch of European Water Caltrop/Chestnut (Trapa natans) since I have seen the pods wash up on the beach there sometimes. Not that they don't look pretty interesting, but they are called "caltrops" for a reason, and I am sure there are many along the river who's private beach excursions have been made much less pleasant by the presence of those pods vis a vis the bottoms of their feet.Everybody has their own weed nemesis!
I was encouraged watching a gardening program where a couple took a nice rural property--Kentucky?, maybe North Carolina?--and made it a showpiece. They had some kind of non native water weed and managed and are managing to almost eridicate.
Gotta be REALLY HARD to get rid of a plant that is growing in one of your ponds!
Good luck everyone, in your weed battles!
Hip Hip Hooray indeedHip hip hooray, seeds arrived View attachment 62311
I never make butter tarts, maybe once every 2 or 3 years. But I made some today to celebrate that special moment of writing down next years grow out list.
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Kochia (tumbleweed) is the number one thing I DONT MISS about living down in America, or anywhere this vile plant grows. We had it in Texas & N. Dakota and every spring you’d want to claw your eyes out due to it’s allergic itch! I hadn’t thought about it for a long time but just the mention of the name
I had no idea that those 'cowboy' plants were so awful!? I thought they were just like tangles of inert grass rolling by. Wow, I learn something new every day here!
Beware of Atlantic Pepper Seeds! It's like a GIANT hole and you can fall in and get lost down there!
I got sucked into seeds specials. I ordered shallot samples and the packaging is so cute!! Little paper sacks with holes, a label on the outside, and folded/stapled down.
