Peppers
I made salsa the other day with a batch of tomatoes I picked from the garden. The recipe calls for lots of sweet bell peppers, and some hot peppers. My bell peppers are producing very slowly, so my salsa has a mix of peppers. I picked a little bit of everything in order to get enough for the salsa.
Clockwise, from left: Tolli's Italian Pepper. As sweet as a bell pepper and quite prolific. The peppers get larger than this, but I'd picked recently for something else so had to settle for smaller ones.
Ancho Gigantea. This dark green pepper has a mild heat. I really like it! It's pretty prolific, too. Needs a support frame like a tomato cage.
Bell Pepper.
Habanero. An extremely hot pepper; our variety turns yellowish orange when ripe. I used 3/4 of a pepper (well seeded and white membranes removed) in my 7 pint batch of salsa. They are HOT HOT HOT.
Jalapeno. Used a lot in Tex-Mex foods. We love the flavor of these. I grew four or five plants this year and it's not going to be nearly enough.
posted by Leslie @ 2:16 PM
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Hi,
Just stumbled randomly on your blog and have read the entire thing. It's slow at work today. I grew up with a garden, chickens, rabbits, etc.. I live in Mill Valley, CA. Just outside San Francisco, have actually been considering a move to NC. The Bay Area is so suffocating in certain ways.
Vicariously enjoying your life,
Thanks.
Danica, I hope work gets more interesting soon! I'm glad you liked the blog, or at least that it passed the time :) I've been to San Jose once for a training course and while it's beautiful there, it is crowded. I have family in western NC and that is beautiful, too! Getting expensive around the Asheville area but nothing like the west coast. Thanks for the comment.
The garden is just about played out for us. Some of the tomato plants are still spitting out a few decent fruit, but the rest are small. Pumpkins and the gourds are going to town. The gourds pulled down the cattle panel trellis arch they were trained on.
Our garden is winding down, too, Woody. It turned out being a good year for tomatoes and they are still pumping out fruit but small and many with bad spots - not worth the trouble.
That is amazing that your gourd plant pulled down a *cattle panel*. Arched, no less!
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