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Itzl Alert Network: Tuesday, 20th of June, 2023: How does your garden grow? [1]

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Date: 2023-06-19

Time for a little focus on our gardens.

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I have a nice veggie garden, with my tomato plants and cucumber vines and habanero bushes all going strong.

I found a nice video, about growing and harvesting and tasting habanero peppers:

That was informative.

I do not plan on ever eating my peppers directly. I plan to add one half of one pepper to a pot of veggie soup. A little goes a long way. And, by the way, I recently looked it up, and found that the spicy hotness of spicy hot foods is alkali, not acid. So, to tone down the spiciness of food that is too spicy, I can add vinegar and sugar.

Time for cucumbers:

Lots of nice information.

So far, I have only seen one baby cucumber on my robust vines. But the vines are going strong, so I should end up with plenty. We will see.

Tomatoes:

When choosing a video to post here, I saw several videos that had titles claiming that everyone needs to do certain special things, with their tomato plants. I do not want to do special things with my tomato plants. I just want to water them, and then pick ripe tomatoes, when they get ripe.

Call me lazy, I suppose.

I am already seeing ten or more baby tomatoes, so my harvest should be great.

Hey, I just realized that I have a lot of empty Mason jars, and lots of lids. Maybe I should go ahead and do some pickling and canning, of the tomatoes and cucumbers. The habaneros can all go in a plastic slider bag, and go into my freezer, so that part is easy. But, if I don’t want to just give away tomatoes and cucumbers, maybe I should consider actual canning and pickling. I have never done it, but I have seen it done, in videos. I have read the directions, every time I bought a case of Mason jars. The directions are always printed on the bottom of the box.

Well, take care of yourselves, and all your garden plants.

And eat chocolate muffins.

Hugs!

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