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  1. Smokerbill

    Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

    He'll help when he can. He has search and rescue training this weekend, plus he has to drive over 200 miles a day getting to work and coming back home. That eats up a lot of his time.
  2. Smokerbill

    Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

    That's why I'm busting my ### and trying to get most of the house painted this week. I just finished masking the final window on the house and my son is masking the skirting now. Tomorrow I'll paint, if I can move after all the work I did today. LOL
  3. Smokerbill

    Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

    Rain is a good thing! My garden needs it and I don't feel like watering anymore. Glad you found it. I looked all over for some paint stirring sticks yesterday and couldn't find them so I just used a little board. Today I found them, exactly where I put them when I brought them home. Just...
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    Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

    Maybe the dog ate it???? LOL I'm getting garden fatigue too. I think that I'll just freeze all the tomatoes I need for making tomato sauce and can it later this fall when things cool down. But I'll still need to make salsa with fresh tomatoes. I've made 14 pints so far, and I'm shooting for...
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    Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

    Wow, it did for some reason.
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    Need Advice: Charging 12V Batteries with 24V Solar Panels

    The charge controller you bought converts solar panel outputs of the solar panels to voltage ranges that are designed to charge 12 volt batteries of various types. The manual for your controller tells you all you need to know...
  7. Smokerbill

    What did you do in the garden today?

    I canned 7 pints of salsa today using five pounds of tomatoes, then I picked eight more pounds of tomatoes from the garden. I'm falling behind.
  8. Smokerbill

    Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

    I puréed the skins in my food processor and added them to the salsa. I don't like the idea of throwing away all those nutrients. It gave the salsa a nice red color too.
  9. Smokerbill

    Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

    I just finished canning some spicy habanero/jalapeno salsa.
  10. Smokerbill

    Preserving Your Harvest

    Salsa day. I canned 7 pints and have a half pint in the fridge. This one is spicy. 5 pounds of tomatoes, one pound of onions and 2 pounds of peppers. A half pound of the peppers were jalapenos and 4 habaneros, chopped fine with the seeds and membranes left in. The rest were bell peppers, red...
  11. Smokerbill

    Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

    I couldn't remember it either, except for it being blue.
  12. Smokerbill

    What did you do in the garden today?

    I started all my peppers in January so I'd have big plants to put in the garden. Relatively short and cool growing season here in SW Washington, so I figured they'd need a good head start. As far as overwintering goes, which I've never done, I think the information on this website can be...
  13. Smokerbill

    What did you do in the garden today?

    @Sally PB , how big did your habanero plants get? Mine are somewhat smaller than one foot spheres, small, bushy plants. Three plants and it looks like I'll get maybe 30 peppers from them in total. I'm going to try overwintering one or two of them. Maybe they'll do better in their second year...
  14. Smokerbill

    What did you do in the garden today?

    I wonder if somewhere along the line the typical cayennes were crossed with a habanero type pepper to get the yellow color, hence the fruity flavor? And yes, it's definitely salsa and tomato sauce making season for me, starting tomorrow. Lots of partially ripe tomatoes in the garden too.
  15. Smokerbill

    Walking/Running Thread

    With my bad knee I can't walk far at all, but started going a couple hundred yards each day. For about half of that I walk sideways, I guess you'd call it. It works muscles not used with normal walking. And since I can't walk much I try to make the best of it...
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    What did you do in the garden today?

    Do they have the heat of red cayennes? I think that next year I'm going to have a bigger pepper garden, with a lot more varieties than the three I'm growing this year... Jalapenos, New Mexico chilis and habaneros.
  17. Smokerbill

    What did you do in the garden today?

    Some varieties of garlic need cold stratification. Next time you plant garlic in the spring try putting the cloves in the fridge for a month before you plant it. I think that's why garlic is usually planted in the fall.
  18. Smokerbill

    Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

    I guess I do need to pick tomatoes again tomorrow and start canning salsa, so I'll have plenty to do.
  19. Smokerbill

    Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

    Yep, saw that. What will I do all morning? LOL
  20. Smokerbill

    Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

    I washed off the front of the house, so now all four sides are clean. I still need to do some caulking, minor repairs, and replace the trim around one of the windows then it'll be painting time. My airless sprayer is all cleaned up, unclogged and ready to go. I bought a new spray tip and filter...
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