Just trying to do my very best!

I took off those 2 remaining valencia late oranges this afternoon...





The inside...



...and the juice...



As usual, taste was insipid, nothing to write home about. But hey, it's still a great hobby!

"This collection topic is not a commercial for Tropicana orange juice"

The juice was pure, but not premium...

It does look good though. Misleading!

Marc, this is the way, how you can share your hobby with your wife and solve your space problem. I put greenhouse on the soil, so during the winter it was a temperated orangerie for citruses in pots and in the spring my mother replaced all pots by tomato and cucumber seedlings.
This is how it looks like right now.:




In the end of the season, I will remove all plants and citruses can go back.
Your wife can have her own vegetable too.

That looks great! But I'll always have a room problem... Our back yard is simply too small for a green house. It would simply fill up too much space...

But still... with the citruses outside, I now have a bunch of chili plants growing in the veranda. Both sweet and hot types. Not that I particularly love eating hot food. It's just for fun. It's fun trying to eat then raw. The hottest one I tried sofar is a golden cayenne (up to 85000 scoville units). Ate one completely without the seeds. Plenty hot, but not much taste... Last year I also tried growing bhut jolokia but that unfortunately didn't germinate.

In fact, chilis are like citrus... plenty of colors and varieties to try, but with the advantage of growing from seedling to fruit in just one year!

Chilis growing currently:
- Red Belgian heirloom (bought seeds in the States as this variety is unknown here in Belgium )
- Korean dark green (seeds also imported from the states)
- Royal black
- Cayenne thick
- Snack paprika (small orange sweet peppers meant to be eaten out of hand)
- Some bell pepper. This plant was supposed to be Madame Jeanette but turned out to be an ordinary bell pepper. Seeds must have been mixed up...

Try the Naga Bhut Jolokia

I'm not going to become a 2nd Ted Barrus!
Love watching his videos though...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TF6_SICh7WI

Naga Morich is fun too. I've been growing them for the past 3 years. They make great hot (correction) HOT Sauce!

Burns when it goes in, burns worse when it comes out!

I tried growing chili for 2 years but didn't find it all that attractive. Had some cheyenne and was so stupid to wanna try and bite a chunk of one fresh of the plant. Never had a mouthburn that bad! Running nose, full red face, heavy sweating,... had to take an icecream and break of chunks to put in my mouth to lower the pain but that didn't help so put some olive oil in my mouth as wel. A must do but really painfull experience

Yes, cayenne is hot but it's mild compared to many other chilis!
Usually I try one out and give the rest to my birds. Birds are insensitive to capsaicin and they love chilis! They eat the seeds first, which contain most of the heat...

I had cheyenne, not cayenne . I think this latter one is milder than cheyenne.