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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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    What did you do in the garden today?

    Just be careful! I had that problem with my cayenne a few years ago - they didn’t come up after two weeks and I put in new ones and then the first ones came up. 😅 I use a heat mat now to avoid that.
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    Share photos of your indoor plants!

    My Iroquois Cornbread beans that I started back in January. They will likely complete their entire life cycle indoors and hopefully give me more seeds to plant outdoors than I started with!
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    garden help! growing food for chickens

    I really wish more seed packets would spell out mint’s planting needs and why!
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    Your 2026 Garden

    It should be listed on the light itself, like so:
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    Your 2026 Garden

    🤔 What is the lumens rating on the light? And the K rating?
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    garden help! growing food for chickens

    If it’s any consolation I used to have the same problem and for the same reason!
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    garden help! growing food for chickens

    Chamomile needs light to germinate, so don’t cover the seeds when you go to plant them. (Mint is the same way.)
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