chuckle.
it's almost laughable what we go through to not spend 1.49 for a bottle of Tabasco sauce.
every year it's wins and losses.
this year was a struggle to grow 3 decent soft ball size eggplants, last year nobody wanted to even hear the word egg after july let alone eggplant.
this year it was cucumbers, i had 3 different types take off and go insane, i'll be eating pickles from them for the next 3 years.
probably won't get any next year... LOL.
it was also the best year i've ever had for winter squash, but the summer squash was hit or miss all over town.
Littlegirl got one anemic zucchini, i was putting straight neck squash in the neighbors mail boxes, but my golden zucchini's hit hard for about 2 weeks then went into slow motion for the rest of the year.
the hot peppers had a good growth spurt and hung on in the covered boxes all the way up until the first week of October, then blap done and getting smoked.
the bell peppers i experimented some.
i started 3 in each pot and transplanted at least 1 from each set.
i kept the transplanted ones inside or in the green house for about 10 days longer even though i had the others in a covered box.
the early ones got peppers sooner, but they were smaller and took longer to mature.
the late ones took longer to put peppers on, but they got a lot bigger, and i got a second cut of slightly smaller ones later.
i have to focus on one plant at a time every year and try a few things to see what works for what, then try to duplicate it again.
sometimes it works, sometimes i'm left scratching my head.