On Sat, 09 Jul 2005 12:51:04 GMT in m Raleighgirl wrote:

This year opted for containers on the deck instead of a proper garden.
The chiles are starting to come in (Well except for the pots of chiles
brought up from SC thursday a week ago, they've been producing chiles
for a while).
The heirloom chiles from my granddad look surprisingly similar
to a thai chile I picked up while attempting to find habeneros.

The basil has managed to become root bound and the catnip is
going nuts.
Thyme and garlic chives haven't gone quite as nuts.

Unfortunately the japanese beetles have found the basil. I'm going to give
neem oil a try at controlling the little $#@!s before resorting to
liquid sevin (Really don't want to use the liquid sevin as the bees
love the flowers).

In the category of fiddling, I'm trying using one of the pepper plants
as shading for a nobile type dendrobium (orchid). It seems to be doing
pretty good, but not as good as its sibling under flourescents.
I have a few oak trees happily growing in pots on the deck that
seem to be doing better than their siblings planted in the ground,
but then again they were started indoors and their siblings weren't.
What was to be a bog garden for some bog orchids is currently being
taken over by morning glories.

--
Chris Dukes
Suspicion breeds confidence -- Brazil