Tomato plants only sustained minor damage from last nights hail storm. A large handful of broken branches. Couple leaves knocked off of jalapeño plant.

Yup - I'm on the Elm Fork floodplain of the Trinity - sandy loam a foot and a half thick, and gravel under that. - I hit water 20 feet down.
Crazy too cause my wife planted the seeds in an area of the garden I was prepping for the next year, and hadn't ever added any compost/amendments yet there.

Those are beautiful

You're ordering Tangerine Dream seeds right now aren't you.

Good GAWD even I have limits and I surpassed mine LONG ago

Y’all remember Wizard of Oz? The poppy field scene? Replace those with these plants covered in peppers and I’d lay down and die a happy man in that field. Just sayin

It's Raining!

Just now passing through here.

Been raining for an hour, inch and a half so far. pic of some knockouts I propagated last week.

still raining!

Do you prune your pepper plants? I never have, but did so this morning after watching this side-by-side video.

Bullfrog is frantically searching for his scissors now.....

Yes I do. This is my serrano. The day I topped it then two weeks later.

Nice! Those are looking good.

Thanks, I did six red roses my grandmother planted at her house in Bellaire in the fifties also.

Ice box pickles tomorrow.. Stuffed bell peppers Sunday.

Dang Bill, you got it going. Those look great!

It is 80% chance of more rain here tomorrow.

I came close to going meatless at dinner tonight.

We have a senior property in Frisco with a ton of raised beds that none of the residents have started using yet. I went out yesterday and prepped the beds with chicken poop, alfalfa pellets and bone meal in the planting locations.
Today I went and planted some of my tomatoes, threw some seeds down for basil, cilantro and some dill. Also mixed in a bunch of baby onion bulbs that were given to me all over as unmarked suprises. If it weren’t for that DadGUM lawn crew, today would have been the most peaceful day ever. They took my dirty looks and got the hint.
This is the before, mind you theres 16-7X10 beds and 4 7X16 beds. I just did 1.5 of them.
I repurposed a bunch of bamboo tiki torches for bracing of the ‘maters.
It may be done all wrong, I dunno and I don’t care. I’ve got a guy that’s gonna help me monitor everything and send me pics since I won’t be able to return for a bit


All in all, I sure have enjoyed the HECK out of the last two days since I got paid to do it, as well as create a little buzz on the property for the residents to start their own little areas. Pretty neat. Next week, back to being a grunt laborer

And those are all my very own babies, started from seed. Only about 35 to go lol

That's a pretty nice set of raised beds.

We are getting more rain now. My jalapeño plant is loving it, and my container variety tomato plant has 7 green ones growing.