My pepper season (garden pics)

15 years ago

This was my first year growing peppers, and I'm sure glad I did! I ate them green, yellow, and red: raw from the garden, and grilled with other veggies; sliced on sandwiches, kabobbed with beef, onion, and mushroom; stuffed with rice, sausage, and cheese, and marinaded (in a mix of pepperoncini, elephant garlic, black pepper, salt, and Spanish olive oil). And I gave peppers to friends, for cooking and display. Now I'm down to the last of my peppers, which are drying currently, and will soon be ground up.

Next year, I'll grow a few different peppers, and expand my culinary options. Anyhow, here's the story of my Hungarian wax peppers, in picture form. The plant surrounded by the black pot was selected for bonsai, and has since been bare-rooted and re-potted for overwintering (cross your fingers!).

Josh

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User
15 years ago
Beautiful!

Congradulations and welcome to the club (cult LOL).

Bill
greenman28 NorCal 7b/8a
Original Author
15 years ago
Thanks, Bill! I'm hooked!
And I can't wait to photo-essay next year's selections!

With any luck, I'll obtain the seeds from some small skinny peppers to make a Hmong dipping sauce called, appropriately enough, "pepper." Recipe: crush peppers, cilantro, salt, and MSG together in a mortar and pestle, and that's pretty much it. Hot, salty, delicious!

Josh
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habbob
15 years ago
For me it started with a single seed from a Jalapeno that my neighbor grew. Now he's jealous of my garden with peppers he's never even heard of. It's quite addictive. You might grow three varieties next year. The year after that you'll probably be growing six. Next year I plan on growing about 70-80 plants with somewhere around two dozen varieties. The more I learn, the more I want to grow.

Beautiful plants and nice shots. Keep it up.

-HabBob
naturegirl_2007 5B SW Michigan
15 years ago
Way to grow. Your plants did well. Have fun choosing next year's contestants!
georgew79
13 years ago
I was fully hooked, by the time I was 14 although I had been trying them since I was 7 years old my dad was half Portuguese and peppers and spicy food was always on the menue My first peppers were chiltepins in Arizona, later Calif and when I was in the Navy I sampled and ate a great number of hot peppers in Thailand, Vietnam and othere southeastern asian countries, later I got to go to Peru, and not only did a learn about various peppers and how to use them, but I fell in love with growing some of the worlds rarest wild peppers along with growing the worlds hottest ones. Nice Photo's BTW, if you want to grow peppers that have authenic flavor and heat you should try growing ones like Angkor Sunrise (C. frutescens0 or Flame tongue (C. annuum) Yellow Thai (C. annuum) or Siling labuyo from the Phillippines which is a small C. chinense that is small and looks a lot like C. frutescens. There are all kinds of peppers and they come in all shaped sizes and colors let you imagination run wild and and enjoy what they have to offer.
George W.
greenman28 NorCal 7b/8a
Original Author
13 years ago
Thanks, George!

It's nice to look back on those first six Hungarian peppers. I still have one.
Interesting, too, my dad is mostly Portuguese...great-grandparents from the island Terceira.

I added a few more peppers to the menu, this year and last...I'm definitely hooked.

I have a Thread on my current pepper garden, if you're interested.

Josh

Here is a link that might be useful: Greenman's Peppers 2010 (pics)