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Nice haul of corn!! A few years ago, after the tornado at our house we were looking for a way to grow something tall enough that our neighbors had some space between our lot and theirs. My DH who has never grown anything on his own before spent two whole days preparing a 12x10' plot so diligently. It was hard, hot work and he started in early June. Then he planted his heirloom corn seeds and we had a beautiful crop of corn. The neighbors had a little feeling of enclosure (and a taste of things to come)....and we were able to eat well in a year that was a bit financially tough for us because of the huge payouts we had to make because of the tornado. Since then we've not planted corn, but we will again, someday!!

tsheets, yah, those pepperoncinis are thin skinned and pack in really easily. The jalapenos were very firm and much thicker skinned. The HHW were in between. The HHW were all off my two overwintered plants...the ones my dog tore into two or three times during the winter/spring. They came back real strong. I ate a red ripe pepperoncini a couple days ago and really liked the flavor. Low heat but nice taste. This is just my first harvest. I will have a pretty good haul of sweet banana peppers when I pick them. And the Hungarians, Jalapenos and Pepperoncinis are already trying to put some more fruit on their branches. My ornamentals are doing good too. I have a Twilight (seed from Ottawa) that is really starting to get a diverse color spread on the pods with several turning orange and red along with the purple and yellow. My Orange tree habanero and red tree habanero (seeds from Smokemaster) are really growing straight and tall too. The orange tree hab is a good three feet tall and didn't fork until about 2.5 feet. It hasn't even put out a bloom yet. the red tree have has 2-3 pods already and is slightly shorter but forked earlier too. I am really psyched about those two. I am hoping for 5 feet by the end of summer. Should make an interesting overwinter if I can keep it away from AJ (dog). He doesn't bother house plants, just pepper plants. Bruce

Hi Angel, and welcome to the RMG Forum! I wintersowed arugula, lettuce, peas, harbs, and tomatoes already, and the arugula and lettuces are already up. I'll probably transplant them from their milk jugs in 3 or 4 weeks. As far as direct sowing into the veggie bed, I'm considering doing some onions sometime over the next week or so, and in a couple more weeks I'll do the carrots and radishes. If you've never wintersowed before, check out the thread below for more info. Last spring, I found several carrots that I had missed during my final fall harvest, but unfortunately some kind of worm had gotten to them first. When I've used a row cover over the winter to extend the spinach or lettuce harvest, the cutworms find it in the spring before I get any, so I've just about given up on extending my season in the fall. I'm all for getting an early start though ... Bonnie Here is a link that might be useful: Wintersowing 2010