Chili Prize

This is the prize winning jalapeno "Macho Nacho" is the name of the variety. This is the largest one we have had yet. This picture doesn't really do it justice.

The plants are recovering from their caterpillar decimation and producing a LOT of chilies. We will grill them up with some sweeter peppers we got from the farmers market tomorrow and eat them with steak!

Beans!

The beans are growing! Not enough to make a meal out of them but maybe in a few weeks. The plants are small and struggling but they all have flowers and buds growing on them so that is a good sign that beans are on their way!


The second picture here is the mescalin. It is growing very nicely and will make a great salad.

Something is Eating my Garden

It looks like caterpillar damage but I have not found a caterpillar on the plant for a few weeks. Hopefully it is just recovering. Jimmy keeps reminding me our basil was weak all winter last year and then went gangbusters in the spring.

We continue to have problems with cats! Rrrrgh. It is totally grossing me out so I decided we will not eat the greens. The mescalin is doing great and far from the cat area so we can eat them.

I have to keep in perspective that part of what we are doing is creating good soil so it doesn't matter if we can eat everything we grow. Jimmy has a plan to lay a grid down when I do my next planting in January. We will have to work around our awesome chili plants. Supposedly those should grow all year round.