J blue

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Peppers and beans this week.

Update on rat situation: I caged and netted my pepper plants but now they are digging underneath the cages! They even managed to move the bricks I placed around the fencing. So I bit the bullet and ordered solar-powered electric fencing. Won’t arrive until Friday.

So far, their favorite pepper seems to be ají habanero, also my favorite for drying bc it tastes like sweet saffron. 😭

A large basket full of purple Celine beans, edamame and Romano purpiat.
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A basket of peppers and some fruit. Peppers are ají chinchi amarillo, ají cacho de cabra, ají dulce orange, ají habanero, ají verde, Grenada seasoning, peppapeach stripey, thunder mountain longhorn

Fruit is black aronia berries, physalis grisea, wild tomatoes
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A hole dug by a rat to get at my peppers. They dig under the mulch under the fencing. A pot is visible behind the fencing.
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A long large ají Guyana pepper that has two munched on marks by rats before it was discarded sitting on mulch.
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Sustainable solar-powered desalination!

“Desalination has always been an energy-hungry way of turning salt water into fresh water, making it largely the preserve of wealthy countries with abundant fossil fuel reserves.
Yet, an outdoor demonstration prototype in China has managed to exhibit year-long stability with zero utility energy costs, thanks to a new type of photothermal material.”

thewaterdigest.com/chinese-tec