Cool plants WFG ! Can ya share the types you're growing?
I have a few hybrids I engineered myself last season that are Banana peppers crossed with pepperoncinis, as well as a few purple bell pepper hybrids on one side of the garden, allowing them to self hybridize dependent on the will of the bees.
On the other side of the yard I've planted two of each pepper I want for the season 18" from one another so they can pollinate eachother, and after I finish it up I'll do what I did last year and cross pollinate them around trying to make new things, then eventually replant them in the hybrid box to let them do their thing there (the first generation of peppers will ALWAYS be what the plant is even through hybridization, it is the seeds of the initial pepper that are the first hybridized generation of the plant)
This year I have banana peppers, habaneros, Calabrian Peppers (the secret ingredient in many of my recipes that I share only here with my sherbros), various bells, Thai chili's, jalapeños, long chili's, fat chili's, crown peppers, Mad Hatter peppers, and the various cross breeds; along with half a dozen other raised beds/larger containers like my pepper ones for tomatoes, onions, garlic, lettuce, Meyer lemons, two dozen different herbs and spices, etc.
This year I had "wild" tomatoes sprout out of a pot I initially used for making compost/fertilizer from the tomatoes I threw in there, they've already gotten to a solid height and I anticipate since they are the second generation of the plant that they will produce more robustly, as when I replanted them, they had a longer and stronger root system than any of my previous plants.
These are the the hybrids with their new foliage coming in
These are newly sewn peppers with some onions and tomatoes on the right and a long eggplant chilling. The terracotta spikes allow me to fill up glass Pelligrino bottles with water to deep water them all day, saves me 75% water consumption compared to my old drip irrigation method, but it's an experiment this year.
These are the "wild" tomatoes.
Thanks for reading my gardening blog post lmao, if any of you are ever thinking about growing your own food, my dms are always open for advice! Become self sufficient!
