Gardening, peppers and poker 

Gardening, peppers and poker

Linda says I always go overboard on everything, but it’s the only way I usually do anything—to excess. It keeps life interesting.

Today we purchased several packets of pepper seeds and a germination tray. We’re going to have pepper plants coming out of the woodwork in 10-12 days I guess. I got some jalapenos (medium), a mixture of grand bells (big variety), purple bells, standard bell, serrano (hot), sweet banana, jalapeno (hot) and a packet of chili pepper. We threw in some bunching onions for good measure. Most of the packets suggest planting in late April-early May and the time to harvest is about 70-80 days. Come September we’ll be rolling in peppers I guess.

I think we’ll have more pepper plants than we need, but I can give them away if we can’t find a place to plant them. We’ve got a pretty good sized bed of soil and I’m going to make another patch behind the garage in an area that isn’t really being used for anything (and it’s kind of out the line of sight).

I told Linda this is my attempt at farming in the city.

When I was a kid we always had a huge garden. It really cut down on the grocery bill. We would work our garden and then go work both grandparents’ gardens too. We were big potato eaters (and still are). We had about 15-20 rows of potatoes to hoe and hill every year. I hated doing all that back then, but looking back on it, I kind of miss things like that sometimes.

Last night I went to play Texas Hold’em in a friendly home game. It was fun. I hope I get the chance to do it again sometime. I was a “fill-in” for a guy that was on vacation in Florida. The group has been playing for a couple years and I’ve only watched in TV and played it on video games here and there, but it’s kind of fun. I definitely learned a lot.