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Chile Pepper Harvest is Gardening Reward
The hard work of sowing and growing is over around here and now it’s time to enjoy the chile pepper harvest.
One of my favorite parts of summer is when it’s almost over. That’s when gardening gets a lot more enjoyable because the hard work is done and the harvest has begun.
These days I’m having fun picking peppers off the plants on the patio. It’s not the biggest pepper crop I’ve ever grown, but it includes seven different varieties and some are hotter than others.
In the photo from left to right are:
Casa Bella–This plant was a gift from someone who told me it grew small Jalapeno-like peppers that turned yellow. These cute little peppers are some of the hottest peppers I’ve grown–much hotter than Jalapenos. We like our peppers hot, but these are too hot to eat raw. When I add them to recipes, I only use one, remove the seeds and mince it like crazy. Once the peppers turn from yellow to red, they lose a bit of heat. I plan to dry the red peppers and then grind them into powder to sprinkle in soups, chili and other cold-weather fare.
AeroGarden Seed Starting Trial
Instead of planting small pots of seeds and starting them on a sunny windowsill, this year I’m starting them the AeroGarden way.
Every year I start my garden by planting tomato and pepper seeds in small pots, germinating them in my office near a heater vent and then putting them on the window seat in my sunny south-facing window. I’ve done this for years ending up with beautiful plants to place in my garden and to share with others.
This year I decided to try something different and use my AeroGarden to start my seeds hydroponically. Using the special seed starting insert and medium, I planted 13 different varieties of tomatoes and 3 kinds of peppers on March 20.
(Yes. I love tomatoes. All kinds, sizes and colors of tomatoes. There are Black Krim, Giant Belgium, Paul Robeson, Yellow Pear, Green Zebra, Black Cherry, and Marianna Peace to name just a few. Many of these are from seeds I’ve saved from previous years, but I did order some new varieties from the Tomato Growers Supply catalog.)
The hard work of sowing and growing is over around here and now it’s time to enjoy the chile pepper harvest.
One of my favorite parts of summer is when it’s almost over. That’s when gardening gets a lot more enjoyable because the hard work is done and the harvest has begun.
Instead of planting small pots of seeds and starting them on a sunny windowsill, this year I’m starting them the AeroGarden way.
Every year I start my garden by planting tomato and pepper seeds in small pots, germinating them in my office near a heater vent and then putting them on the window seat in my sunny south-facing window. I’ve done this for years ending up with beautiful plants to place in my garden and to share with others.
This year I decided to try something different and use my AeroGarden to start my seeds hydroponically. Using the special seed starting insert and medium, I planted 13 different varieties of tomatoes and 3 kinds of peppers on March 20.
(Yes. I love tomatoes. All kinds, sizes and colors of tomatoes. There are Black Krim, Giant Belgium, Paul Robeson, Yellow Pear, Green Zebra, Black Cherry, and Marianna Peace to name just a few. Many of these are from seeds I’ve saved from previous years, but I did order some new varieties from the Tomato Growers Supply catalog.)
