Recent content by ravishingjay

No, not really. If I want pure seeds, I will probably just buy some. Right now, I am getting about 95% what I expected to get and 5% mysteries. I don't mind a little variety.

My first experience with open pollination came last year when I realized that I had Jimmy Nardello sweet peppers that had crossed with Serranos. They looked like Nardellos but had some seriously painful and lasting oil in them. This year I have a few more interesting plants showing up. A few...

Last year I made a Habanero cheesecake. I liked it, but nobody else that tried it did.

I've never really like pickled peppers that much, but maybe I just didn't like the kind of peppers that were in the jars. I definitely wish I had ripe tomatoes for salsa, but they look like they are still a couple of weeks away from being ripe. I slice most of my peppers the long way, take out...

This year I have a ridiculous crop of all of my pepper varieties. I planted nearly 100 plants which have all done well. I have about 15 plants that I don't really know what to do with though. Hot Paper Lantern, Hot Lemon, and Dong Xuan. I don't have any tomatoes ripe yet, so I can't make any...

...a thunderstorm pops up out of nowhere. Heavy rain, wind, and pea sized hail. The hail was enough that it completely covered my deck. After some tense moments, I checked on my plants and the only damage was a few torn leaves. The last plant had been in the ground for less than 30 minutes...

Any other experiences using Preen?

Does anybody use Preen in their gardens? If you do, how effective is it at controlling weeds?

My favorite way to eat Nardellos is to slice them in 1/2 the long way, remove seeds, put on cookie sheet, and pull off a little string cheese and put on the pepper. Bake in the oven at whatever temp you want and when the cheese gets a little bubbly and brown then they are ready. And they are...

I just transplanted my peppers into 16oz cups. The soil is a mix of potting soil, worm castings, vermiculite, bone meal, and perlite. I keep my plants under some fluorescents in my basement. My basement now stinks like nasty, sweaty, gym socks. The only difference is that I added bone meal...

Jimmy Nardello Once you have these, no sweet pepper will ever compare.

Yikes! I am about as far removed from that action as possible.

Ate the jumbo Jalapenos tonight. Nothing special about them. Regular taste and heat.

I have grown these for 2 seasons and they were fun to grow and look at, but I am not growing them any more. They taste fine, are sometimes Serrano hot, but not that productive. The pods would turn all colors from green, to cream, to yellow, to orange, and finally to red. They always had...

So I checked with the produce manager and he couldn't give me any info about the peppers. The box that they were in said "Sweet Superior Fruit LTD. CO." of McAllen, TX. Peppers were grown in Mexico. McAllen is right on the border with Mexico.