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Tuesday, July 10, 2012

Tuesday Garden Party - All About the Peppers

We like peppers, here at zentCasa.  This year we are growing a lot of varieties of peppers.  From sweet to hot, here they are:


Sweet Red Bell Peppers (not quite red yet)


Sweet Orange Bell Peppers (not quite orange yet)



Poblano (still just a baby pobalano)

Hot Banana Pepper (just about ready to hotten up dinner)


Turning up the heat with a couple of cayenne peppers (waiting for them to turn red)

We've got a whole bunch of green jalapenos...

... and a few (hotter) red ones

A little baby habanero!

Scotch Bonnet.  Red.  One day.

Scotch Bonnet.  Orange.  I hope.


Ghost!  And yes, it will be scary.

And the hottest of all - the Scorpion Pepper!

Imagine the heat at our house in a few months!  I think we'll have plenty to freeze to last us through the winter.


And I just had to show you our newest little guy -

Never have tomatoes been so babied.  I hope it will be worth it soon!


Check back next week to see what else we're up to in the garden - in the meantime, check out An Oregon Cottage for her weekly Garden Party.






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5 comments:

  1. Hi Susan: Oh, what a glorious pepper harvest you are going to have! I think peppers are some of the most beautiful vegetables as well--so sleek and shiny and architectural-looking. I have 2 'Thor' sweet Italian frying peppers at the green stage, but that's about it for pepper production at the moment. I've got all the eggplant and peppers under a plastic hoop house, and they shot up under there--they love their heat, as you can provide naturally in San Diego. Take care, and have a great week!

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  2. Susan- Everything is looking great! Soon you will be loaded with fresh peppers to use. My peppers are much smaller but they are slowly coming along.

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  3. Wow, I thought our chile garden was vast, but yours takes the cake! What do you do with all the peppers?
    Mrs. Petrie @ casapetrie.com

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  4. We have peppers such a deep purple they almost look black. No idea what kind they are.

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  5. Wow, nice variety! I'm glad to see I'm not the only one to start some new pepper seedlings right now :) I realized the 3 small plants we have are not producing enough to satisfy our table, good thing we have a long growing season!

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