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chrisinhouston · 02-13-2009, 04:19 PM

"I use Miracle Gro", can I get some kind of kick back from them for saying that here?

Actually I do use that and also a Texas product called Medina Hasta Grow which is an organic soil additive. And then there is that water i haul from the cooling ponds at the South Texas Nuclear Project... Just kidding!

I don't know how Savanah rates compared to Houston. We get a mild winter with some frosty mornings but only a really hard spell of freezing weather every decade or so. Most nights if it's going to be frosty I throw a sheet over the plant, one year I strung it with Christmas lights and covered it when it was going into the 20's. I trim it back a bit in the spring but it just keeps taking off. I would imagine that in a year I get about 20 lbs of peppers off of that one plant. I think the plant cost me a dollar so when I bought it. Peppers generally have woody stalks so I guess other kinds could keep being cultivated each year. They are fairly disease and insect free plants.

My wife has some employees from Pakistan as well as China who like them so she takes them to work for them and the other Texans who like hot food.

02-13-2009, 04:19 PM	#8
chrisinhouston Professor Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: Houston TX Posts: 1,857	"I use Miracle Gro", can I get some kind of kick back from them for saying that here? Actually I do use that and also a Texas product called Medina Hasta Grow which is an organic soil additive. And then there is that water i haul from the cooling ponds at the South Texas Nuclear Project... Just kidding! I don't know how Savanah rates compared to Houston. We get a mild winter with some frosty mornings but only a really hard spell of freezing weather every decade or so. Most nights if it's going to be frosty I throw a sheet over the plant, one year I strung it with Christmas lights and covered it when it was going into the 20's. I trim it back a bit in the spring but it just keeps taking off. I would imagine that in a year I get about 20 lbs of peppers off of that one plant. I think the plant cost me a dollar so when I bought it. Peppers generally have woody stalks so I guess other kinds could keep being cultivated each year. They are fairly disease and insect free plants. My wife has some employees from Pakistan as well as China who like them so she takes them to work for them and the other Texans who like hot food.