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  1. mooman

    Bell Peppers (getting clean ripe fruit without pesticides)

    I have started a small market garden this year and have planted about 150 red and yellow bell pepper plants. In years past I have always let them rippen up because the taste is soooooooo much better than when green. Of course right when they start to ripen is when they get hit by all sorts of...
  2. mooman

    Squash Borers

    If you want to be totally organic I can't help you. I don't like to use insecticides any more than most of you, but this is one case where some judicious use of seven has allowed me to grow an entire range of crops that before never made it for me. You do not have to spray anywhere near the...
  3. mooman

    cover crop as lawn alternative?

    I have a large 2-3000sqft section at the bottom of my hill that was brush, but previous owners burned and scraped it. It's now ugly bare ground and wash from further up the hill. Its on a flood plain so soil should be fairly fertile. What could I plant besides grass (I have enough to mow...
  4. mooman

    Processing Peppers

    I'm not sure about making chipotles, but making hot sauce can be a good way of using some up. I am still seaching for a satisfactory pickling recipe. the best way I have found to preserve them is to freeze them. I cut them in half, take out the seeds and store them in freezer bags. They are...
  5. mooman

    Tomatoe and Jalepeno canning recipe?

    I'm also desperate to find a good jalepeno and peperacini (spelling)? pickling recipe. I'd like to be able to produce ones just like you buy in the store. I tried last year and the jalapeno flesh was fine but the seeds were really hard. The pepperacinis on the other hand were mushy. Any...
  6. mooman

    Poison ivy???

    I'm pretty sure it will. they are both members of the same genus if I'm not mistaken. As for my question about length of time the oil stays active....internet research says anywhere from one year to 100 years!!! Guess I'll just let my grandkids pick up the pile of vines I cleaned off my barn...
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    Poison ivy???

    Ok first some input, then another question to add It looks to me like you have two different plants. Poison ivy and some other type of vine. Second pic down, hairy vine on right is telltail old mature PI vine. Smaller vines that leaves appear to be coming out of lookes like younger PI vine...
  8. mooman

    Target shooting near garden?

    Hi all, first post. Recently moved out to the country and am planting a 1/4 acre of bottom land along the stream that borders my property. When tilling, I left a lane in the middle of the field open so that I could use it as a shooting range (perfect because I'm firing into a hillside and...
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