Bodeen's 2013 Grow _-_ Love at First Sting

Not actually starting this yet. Just trying to get my thoughts together on what and how many I will be planting of everything. There is the possibility that there will be no cows here next year and the pastures will be made into corn fields. This would mean the barn lot will be free and empty. It grows some of the best grass on the farm and the barn does have a well and a pump already there. Could it be garden number 3??? Also contemplating enlarging the back garden again.

Seed list so far

Hot Peppers

7 Pod Yellow: One Plant
7 Pod: One Plant
7 Pod Brain Strain: Three Plants
7 Pod Burgandy: Three Plants
7 Pod Chaguanas: One plant
Aji Amarillo: One Plant
Aji Chinchi Amarillo: One Plant
Assam: Three plants
Bhut Jolokia: Three Plants
Bhut Jolokia, Brown: Three Plants.
Bhut Jolokia, Chocolate: Three Plants
Bhut Jolokia, Peach: Three Plants.
Bhut Jokolia, Yellow: Three plants
Big Bomb Hybrid: Three plants
Biggie Chile Hybrid: One plant
Black Hungarian: One Plant
Budapest Hybrid: Three Plants
Cayenne (Thick): One Plant
Cayenne (Chocolate): Six Plants, with one over winter
Cayenne (Orange): One Plant
Chapeu Du Frade (Bishop's Hat): One Plant.
Chenzo Hybrid: One Plant
Cherry Bomb Hybrid: Three Plants
Czechoslovakian Black: One Plant
Fatalii: Three Plant
Fatalii, Red: One Plant
Fatalii x Savina: Three Plants
Fish: One plant.
Fresno: One Plant
Habanero Chocolate: Three plants
Habanero Orange: One plant
Habanero Peach: One Plant
Habanero Red: One plant
Habanero White: One plant
Habanero Yellow: One Plant
Hawaiian Sweet Hot: One Plant
Jalapeno, Biker Billy: One plant
Jalapeno, Goliath: One plant
Jalapeno, Purple: One plant
Jamaican Yellow: One plant
Lemon Drop: One plant.
Paper Lantern: One plant.
Peter Pepper (Orange): One Plant
Rain Forest: One Plant
Red Savina: One plant
Sante Fe Grande: Three plants.
Serrano Tamp: Two to three plants.
Thai Giant: One Plant
Tobago: One plant
Trinidad Scorpion Butch T: One plant
Trinidad Scorpion Green: Three Plants
Trinidad Moruga: Three plants
Trinidad Red Douglah: Three plants
Trinidad Douglah Chocolate: Three plants
Trinidad Scorpion Yellow: One Plant
White Scorpion Tongue: One Plant
Yellow Thai: One plant

Sweet Peppers

Jimmy Nardello: Six plants
Douce D`Espagne: Six plants
Lipstick: Two plants
Sweet Goliath: Three plants
Atris Hybrid: Three plants
Gypsy Hybrid: Three plants
La Rouge Royale: Three plants
Golden Treasure: Three plants
Mini Bell Red: Two Plants

 

[HillBilly Jeff]

Picked a few peppers today.  Going to try to dry the ones for mole sauce.  Or something.  The bulk were halved and stuck in the freezer.  I did have two datil for breakfast and loved them.
 
Peach bhuts are getting real close.  I won't be putting an entire pod of those in an omelet lol.  
 

 

[MGOLD86]

Nice pull Jeff, some great lookin pods.  I wouldn't worry about the peach bhuts too much, they are usually on the milder side of the spectrum.  Pretty good flavor too.

 

[HillBilly Jeff]

Finally had enough sweet peppers that I could process some for the freezer.  Most have gone into salsa and other cooking endeavors.  Here is today's pull.  I've been eating 3-4 Nardello peppers right off the plants each day, but they still got way ahead of me.
 

 

[HillBilly Jeff]

Tonight's dinner was Gills & Perch served with a homemade tartar sauce that was spiced up with a couple diced up Fatalii peppers.  They were not as hot as the Peach Habanero I put in the last time, but they had a much better flavor.
 
 

 
 

 

[romy6]

 Nice hauls Jeff and that fish has me salivating. I don't even like tartar sauce but i would give that a go 

 

[HillBilly Jeff]

 Nice hauls Jeff and that fish has me salivating. I don't even like tartar sauce but i would give that a go 

 
 
Thanks.  I'm not a tartar sauce guy either, always ketchup on my fish, but spicing it up like this just makes me have to use it!!!

 

[HillBilly Jeff]

Finally got a peach bhut harvest.  Gotta thank Matt for sending me a pod last year.  These are descendants from his plant.  I will probably slice and freeze these until I decide how I want to process them.  I might get two more harvests off this plant before frost.
 

 

[HillBilly Jeff]

The aroma of these is so pleasing.  Gotta grow them next year.
 

The heat from this peach bhut omelet is still hanging around a little bit.  Great flavor, no after taste or bitterness.  Tongue attacker.
 

 

[FreeportBum]

fried perch and gills....YUM! what kinda perch you cooking? I don't eat them in the summer here but love to catch yellow and white's here in winter and we fry em up right on the ice 

 

[HillBilly Jeff]

fried perch and gills....YUM! what kinda perch you cooking? I don't eat them in the summer here but love to catch yellow and white's here in winter and we fry em up right on the ice 

 
Yellow perch.  Get them from Lake Michigan and they are usually pretty huge.  Other than that, I just try to pick up some through the ice.
 

 

 

I wish all my perch fillets were this big.
 

 

[HillBilly Jeff]

Chocolate Habanero peppers are ripe, so I was able to pick a few off today.  Really like the size of these pods.
 

 

 

 

[Sawyer]

That's a lot of fish.  I don't envy you having to clean them all.  On the other hand, that many fish heads buried in the garden (or composted first) will make for mighty fine fertilizer.
 
Those chocolate habs are about the blackest pepper I've seen.  Are they really as dark as they look in the photo or is it a trick of the light?  How do they taste?

 

[Devv]

looking good Jeff!
 
Fish a plenty and beautiful choc habs too!
 
Have a great weekend!

 

[HillBilly Jeff]

That's a lot of fish.  I don't envy you having to clean them all.  On the other hand, that many fish heads buried in the garden (or composted first) will make for mighty fine fertilizer.
 
Those chocolate habs are about the blackest pepper I've seen.  Are they really as dark as they look in the photo or is it a trick of the light?  How do they taste?

 
Perch clean fairly easily.  I have never used fish in the garden before, kind of afraid of attracting animals that might just dig up the garden.  Same reason I don't use egg shells.
 
They are that dark.  Just took photo just like all the others.  I liked their size.  The first one I ate was one of the first ones that got ripe, so it wasn't too hot or tasty.  I will be trying another one soon and it should give me more of a true taste.
 
 

looking good Jeff!
 
Fish a plenty and beautiful choc habs too!
 
Have a great weekend!

 
Thank you.  Have a great weekend as well.

 

[Sawyer]

D'oh, shame on me for forgetting about digging critters (given my resident fox has taken to digging, never mind prior history).  Well, maybe some of sort of enclosed composter.  That sounds pretty stinky, but it sure is a shame not to take advantage of the nutrients in the leftovers.

 

[HillBilly Jeff]

Before
 

 
After
 

 
 
Lovely Creole Soup

 

[illWill]

Crawdads, nice!  I have never had them before  

 

[HillBilly Jeff]

Today's pull
 

 
Its pathetic, but its my best lantern harvest of the season.  Last year I had them coming out my ears.
 

 
Fatalii Doing well
 

 
 
Bhuts
 

 
 
Habs
 

 
Assorted supers, TFM, and Cayenne
 

 
Chinchi, Lemon drop, Congo black, Ozone, Rojo, Burgundy
 

 
Tepin, Donne, Perfume, TS Green
 

 
And this came from what was suppose to be a chocolate bhut...So much for free seed exchanges lol
 

 

[Devv]

I haven't had crawdad's in ages, that soup looks to die for.
 
Nice haul on the peps!

 

[Sawyer]

You've got your work cut out, with that harvest.  Excellent variety.