Thursday, October 7, 2010

Garden Journal #10

Edition Peppers! Some known as chilis, chiles, capsicums. Spicy peppers. Red peppers. Everyone seems to call them something different.

Our peppers produced all summer and into the fall. We basically planted one box with a huge assortment and we got a little of everything. Look at the spread we picked last week and then a few examples of each kind:



Anaheim: we only had one plant and it barely produced.


Mystery peppers: we have no idea what they are but they have NO SPICE!


JalapeƱos: they just keep coming. They start green and turn red on the bush.


Cayenne: we think....or Mexican chilis....not sure....either way, plenty of spice for dried seasoning, whole or crushed.


Bell: did not produce very well, before they got big they turned dark and had thin flesh.



Bananas: surprising good producers but we had little use for them.

2 comments:

arlani said...

Bell probably needed more water to keep the flesh plump. If you have more cayennes than you need, I'll be happy to take some off your hands. We were just lamenting we ran out of the dried peppers before we made the last batch of pizza.

Casey Willits said...

There will definitely be extra crushed pepper. Trade pepper for pizza?