Hyper Active Worms – Or – Caffeine Induced Wide Awake Worms!

I have put down so much old coffee grounds in my porch pots the earth worms now have insomnia from all the caffeine! I don’t know where the grounds go. It seems like within two weeks after I put a large coffee can full of coffee grounds in a porch pot they just disappear. Composting into a really good potting soil I hope.

Two nights past it got down to 31 degrees again! I’m hopeful that it was winters last cold blast and I can now start planting frost tender spring garden seeds and seedlings. This morning at 5am it was 58 degrees and forecasting 70 for today’s high but with a 20-25mph northwest wind it feels much colder than the current 60 degrees. Pretty much the same forecast for the next 7 – 10 days.

After SNL(Son-N-Law) tilled in that last ton or so of old grass bedding hay mixed a lot of cow dung about two weeks ago, my garden soil is taking on an appearance of fine garden soil. That red clay based garden soil is taking on a nice dark rich color from all the humus and livestock dung that has been tilled in to compost down during the past 60 days or so. Over the past 2 months I think my SNL has spread and tilled in at least 2 tons if not more old soiled, livestock bedding hay along with a lot of fresh manure.

I have six yellow summer squash seedlings needing planted. I will need to cut the bottom out of 6 large 35 ounce coffee cans to put over the seedlings to give them a little wind protection and I hope, keep the damn rabbits from eating my seedling. I am resorting to harsh rabbit control measures. One box of #5 shot shells and a 12 gauge shot gun. Rabbits that are not processed for my consumption and frozen will be fed to our catfish and crawdads (crayfish). It has been a very reproductive winter for rabbits!

I have a patio container made from a 30 gallon plastic barrel cut in half (length wise) I’m going to try planting some lettuce seed in that container and see how that works out.

My daughter got me 6 pepper seedlings today. Three Hungarian (hot) peppers and three Jalapeno (hot) pepper seedlings. All peppers along with six yellow summer squash seedlings will get planted tomorrow afternoon.

I checked today and at 4 inches deep the soil temperature was 54 degrees. That’s a full 20 degrees to cool for pepper seeds to germinate. So it will still be sometime until I can garden soil plant the remaining pepper seed I have on hand. This year it looks like it will be the first week of May or later before I can plant and reliably germinate warm weather crops like pepper, okra and black eyed peas.

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The Spice Of Life – Better Than Sex (Well Almost) Growing Peppers

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Peppers like it hot. Pepper seeds germinate at soil temperatures of 75° – 90° F with 85° F being the ideal soil temperature.

The first thing you must decide is do you want to grow Sweet Mild peppers or Hot pepper types. Then you must select the pepper that is ‘Not’ to hot for your taste.

Jalapeno, Serrano, Cayenne or Tabasco type peppers are hot enough for most peoples taste. However they are down right mild when compared with some of the Habanero or Naga Jolokia peppers.

Below is a pepper chart indicating how hot different varieties of pepper will be at maturity.

Scoville Units

Chile Pepper	Heat Range
Sweet Bell	0
Sweet Banana	0
Pimento	0
Cherry	00 ~ 500
Pepperoncini	100 ~ 500
Sonora	300 ~ 600
El-Paso	500 ~ 700
Santa Fe Grande	500 ~ 750
NuMex R Naky	500 ~ 1,000
Coronado	700 ~ 1,000
TAM Mild Jalapeno	1,000 ~ 1,500
New Mexico 6-4	1,000 ~ 1,500
Espanola	1,000 ~ 2,000
Poblano	1,000 ~ 2,000
Ancho	1,000 ~ 2,000
Mulato	1,000 ~ 2,000
Pasilla	1,000 ~ 2,000
Anaheim	500 ~ 2,500
Sandia	500 ~ 2,500
NuMex Big Jim	1,500 ~ 2,500
Rocotillo	1,500 ~ 2,500
Pulla	700 ~ 3,000
NuMex Joe E. Parker	1,500 ~ 3,000
Bulgarian Carrot	2,000 ~ 5,000
Mirasol	2,500 ~ 5,000
Guajillo	2,500 ~ 5,000
Jalapeno	2,500 ~ 8,000
Chipolte	5,000 ~ 8,000
Long Thick Cayenne	6,000 ~ 8,500
Hot Wax	5,000 ~ 9,000
Puya	5,000 ~ 10,000
Hidalgo	6,000 ~ 17,000
Aji Escabeche	12,000 ~ 17,000
Serrano	8,000 ~ 22,000
Manzano	12,000 ~ 30,000
Shipkas	12,000 ~ 30,000
NuMex Barker’s Hot	15,000 ~ 30,000
De Arbol	15,000 ~ 30,000
Jaloro	30,000 ~ 50,000
Aji	30,000 ~ 50,000
Tabasco	30,000 ~ 50,000
Cayenne	30,000 ~ 50,000
Santaka	40,000 ~ 50,000
Super Chile	40,000 ~ 50,000
Piquin	40,000 ~ 58,000
NuMex XX Hot	60,000 ~ 70,000
Yatsafusa	50,000 ~ 75,000
Red Amazon	55,000 ~ 75,000
Haimen	70,000 ~ 80,000
Chiltecpin	60,000 ~ 85,000
Thai	50,000 ~ 100,000
Merah	85,000 ~ 100,000
Tabiche	85,000 ~ 115,000
Bahamian	95,000 ~ 110,000
Carolina Cayenne	100,000 ~ 125,000
Kumataka	125,000 ~ 150,000
Bahamian	125,000 ~ 300,000
Jamaican Hot	100,000 ~ 200,000
Birds Eye	100,000 ~ 225,000
Tepin (Wild)	100,000 ~ 265,000
Datil	1,000 ~ 300,000
Devil Toung	125,000 ~ 325,000
Fatalii	125,000 ~ 325,000
Orange Habanero	150,000 ~ 325,000
Scotch Bonnet	150,000 ~ 325,000
TigrePaw-NR	265,000 ~ 348,000
Rocoto / Manzano	225,000 ~ 350,000
Caribbean Red	120,000 ~ 400,000
Choclate Habanero	325,000 ~ 425,000
Red Savina Habanero	350,000 ~ 575,000
Dorset Naga	800,000 ~ 900,000
Naga Jolokia “Ghost Pepper”	800,000 ~ 1,041,000
Pure Capsaicin	15-16,000,000

FAQ From Pepper Growers and Want To Be Pepper Growers

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