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    What did you do in the garden today?

    The 48 hours of soaking is done although I’m not sure why it turned the water green. 🤨 It’s planted now anyway. 🤷‍♀️ It’s on the heat mat with the peppers but that 80 degrees might not actually be warm enough in the long term. 🤔
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    What did you do in the garden today?

    MIGardener sells seeds!
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    What did you do in the garden today?

    I had meant to plant the coffee today, but I neglected to check the packet until I went to check the planting depth and apparently it needs to soak for two days! So I guess that’s going to be a Tuesday thing. At least I got the pot prepped.
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    Your 2026 Garden

    Why not all three? 😉
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    Your 2026 Garden

    I got my pepper seeds started and the first round of tomatoes too: For later reference: Yellow toothpicks are Cayenne Blue are Fish Red are Ghost The ones without toothpicks are Silvery Fir Tree Tomatoes They’re on a heat mat set at 80 degrees currently. The plan is to move the tomatoes into...
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    Native gardeners in the southeastern US

    I’ve heard the leaves of the spicebush can be used in tea. Has anyone tried it? What is it like?
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    Your 2026 Garden

    +1, or if you remember what you planted and just not which is which, post pics and see if anyone here recognizes them.
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    What did you do in the garden today?

    Prepped a bunch of paper towel rolls today to use as seedling pots this weekend.
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    Your 2026 Garden

    The first year yes, I got enough to make cayenne powder for myself for a year. Last year no, but none of my warm weather crops did well last year - too cold all summer. My cayenne got to be about a foot tall, maybe a bit more, but nowhere near 3-4 feet. I will note that my hanging basket is...
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    Your 2026 Garden

    I think you can do closer than that, I had 12-14 cayenne plants in a space that was about 1.25 square feet.
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    Your 2026 Garden

    First bean bloom of the year! (With a cameo from a potato.) I tried growing some jalapeno from a hot pepper blend seed packet. I only got one pepper off of it and it didn’t have viable seeds so I haven’t tried growing them again. Poppers sounds like an interesting idea though. 🤔 I think...
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    Your 2026 Garden

    They’re supposed to have variegated leaves! And the fruits start out striped before ripening to a solid red. I just hope they’ll be spicy enough, I’m used to cayenne.
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    Your 2026 Garden

    I got my Fish Pepper seeds in the mail today! 🎉
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    What did you do in the garden today?

    Hadn’t thought of cooking swiss chard, I was just using it for salad greens (and I can’t remember the stems, so I must have cut those out and put them back in the garden to compost). It did way better for me than kale, and wasn’t as bitter.
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    Any Gamers Here?

    +1 for Plants vs. Zombies.
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