Pam wrote:


Destruction! After eating a bowl of chili with one, just
*one* of *my* fiery peppers in it, you can expect to have
flames shooting out of your butt the next day.


You can actually use a whole chili? Lame.
Yeah ... yours are definitely not as hot as mine. :-)

(I have really nice organically rich soil in a raised bed next to a
south-facing cinderblock wall that I have painted white. The habs, maters
and beans just love that bed.)

There's no way to actually compare heats ... but it was a decidedly bad idea
to touch last years habs, no matter how briefly or gently. I have a good
set of callouses on my hands that the habs simply ignored.

Bill
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Zone 5b (Detroit, MI)
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I did some habs in a mini greenhouse against a wall last year and the
tester described it as eating fire when he made a curry.

Guess they were pretty good. I never had the heart to try em.

Christopher Norton wrote:

I did some habs in a mini greenhouse against a wall last year and the
tester described it as eating fire when he made a curry.

Guess they were pretty good. I never had the heart to try em.

One thing that got my attention is that, in my organically managed garden
where there is a fairly wide variety of both predators and prey, the habs
had NO insect damage. I'll take that back. Something cut a semi-circle out
of one leaf. Apparently even in the insect world there are self-destructive
idiots. I do make note that this individual did not make a return visit.

Bill
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Zone 5b (Detroit, MI)
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One thing that got my attention is that, in my organically managed garden
where there is a fairly wide variety of both predators and prey, the habs
had NO insect damage. I'll take that back. Something cut a semi-circle out
of one leaf. Apparently even in the insect world there are self-destructive
idiots. I do make note that this individual did not make a return visit.

Bill
--
Zone 5b (Detroit, MI)
I do not post my address to news groups.

Do you get leaf cutter bees over there? Some of my trees get eaten
alive by them some years. But they dont do massive damage to the tree as
its the source of leaf for them.

Christopher Norton wrote:

The message
from Noydb contains these words:


One thing that got my attention is that, in my organically managed garden
where there is a fairly wide variety of both predators and prey, the habs
had NO insect damage. I'll take that back. Something cut a semi-circle
out of one leaf. Apparently even in the insect world there are
self-destructive idiots. I do make note that this individual did not make
a return visit.

Bill
--
Zone 5b (Detroit, MI)
I do not post my address to news groups.

Do you get leaf cutter bees over there? Some of my trees get eaten
alive by them some years. But they dont do massive damage to the tree as
its the source of leaf for them.


I recall seeing them when I was a kid .... but that's a very long time ago.
I do not have to account for them in my garden.

Bill
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Zone 5b (Detroit, MI)
I do not post my address to news groups.