Re: [CH] OT Klez rears its ugly head again

VoodooChile (rael64@qwest.net)
Tue, 3 Sep 2002 16:14:34 -0600 

>I just got a Klez infested email that I suspect came from the CH list.
>Fortunately, my virus protection nailed it. Time for everyone who
>doesn't have AntiVirus on their computer to go through a body-cavity
>search...
>
>And a question for all growers in areas that have experience drought or
>near drought this year... have your chiles been noticeably hotter??
>Every home-grown I've touched in Central Indiana has been a screamer.
>Even the usually mild pepperoncinis have been biting back.  Don't get me
>wrong. I like this!

I'm still waiting to find out :)

Only 2 chile plants in my garden this year since <1> for a while I 
wasn't sure I'd be here thru the summer, thus didn't get all the 
chiles I had orginially planned on getting cuz i wasn't sure i'd 
actually have a garden, and <2> by the time i figured i was to be 
here, time was short; and I must say that while the choices of chiles 
offered in the stores ain't many, they are there, so home grown 
Romas, basil, and other herbs were more my priority.

Thus my sin, yes.  Flagellation has occurred, and will continue to, frequently.

Anywho, I've a cayenne and a hab.  That's it. And if the weather 
holds out for about 3 more weeks, I *may* get one off the hab plant. 
Cayenne is loaded down, albeit the plant in general is quite muted in 
size (think it's soil related; i don't fertilize and soil is poor); 
nevertheless, I'm waiting for redness of chile before consumption. 
Or frost <scream>.

As for watering, here in this High Desert of Idaho (tis that, 
indeed), I decided at the beginning that things would either grow 
decently w/low water...or they wouldn't.  Most herbs, ive found, pay 
no attention to infrequent watering except the basil which demands a 
bit more than the others (parsley, thyme, oregano, orange mint, lemon 
basil, Thai basil, "basil", sage, cilantro, chives, epazote (LOVES 
this area...huge plants), rosemary (potted), bay tree (iffy), and 
lemon, uh, lemon something....damn, i make tea with it).

Anywho, I water at most 3x a week, the waterings being by hand 
w/sprayer nozzel, lasting no more than about 15 minutes total to 
cover all (incl. sunflowers).  So, the garden is definitely on low 
water rations (as it should be in my mind...desert and all...low 
water table and all...don't get me going on those damn "lawn people" 
who water 5x/week at 2pm...if I only had a stealth backhoe...)

Thus, my experiment in low water gardening.  Double dug the main bed 
(w/tomatoes and chiles) throwing in what manure/compost I had; 2 bags 
of top soil mixed in.  All has been dandy so far, really, 
particularly the tomatoes, although they do get more wasser than 
everything else.

Just get me outta this 3 month growing season area though....gawwwwd.

-- 
Peace, Hendrix, and Chiles.......
Rael64

"How you English say, I one more time - a unclog my nose in your 
direction, sons of a window-dresser! So, you think you could 
out-clever us French folk with your silly knees-bent running about in 
dancing behavior! I wave my private parts at your aunties,...you 
cheesy lot of second hand electric donkey bottom biters."   - Monty 
Python and the Holy Grail -