Been watching and waiting, watering and tending, and now, it is finally, HARVEST TIME! Well, just my first small batch of stuffing peppers. Got some Hungarian wax and hot banana for stuffing... YUM!
But OMG do I have a green thumb! Although I have to admit, that I had a large setback. Everyone in my neighborhood gave up on gardening with the old deer problem that has been somehow fixed. Sooo.... my garden is now an oasis for every small critter and groundhogs. They especially loved my favorite Jalapinos. Cry...... Chewed those and most of my hot lemon drop down to nothing. The habaneros got hit a bit also. Never touched the Hungarian wax though... (I do have 10 patio plants of all types that were not touched.)
So I went to Amazon and bought a water scarecrow. That thing is amazing! And all of my plants have recovered. Although I will be having a later harvest on those plants affected.) What still gets past are the tiny baby bunnies. But they have just been chewing on my baby lettuce and spinach mostly now. My husband calls those last minute throw in plants my decoys.
I do have one really strange Hungarian Wax plant. The thin peppers start off growing down like Hot banana, and are a very pale yellow color. Has the double ring on top like the Banana peppers also. Also, the pods start off yellow vs. green, which is odd, since neither the Hungarian or banana peppers start off yellow. I will try one tomorrow to see how it is.
Anyways, I have been drooling over my Jalapinos and have been very tempted to pick them now before they are fully grown. I am dying to slap some on a burger, YUM!
But OMG do I have a green thumb! Although I have to admit, that I had a large setback. Everyone in my neighborhood gave up on gardening with the old deer problem that has been somehow fixed. Sooo.... my garden is now an oasis for every small critter and groundhogs. They especially loved my favorite Jalapinos. Cry...... Chewed those and most of my hot lemon drop down to nothing. The habaneros got hit a bit also. Never touched the Hungarian wax though... (I do have 10 patio plants of all types that were not touched.)
So I went to Amazon and bought a water scarecrow. That thing is amazing! And all of my plants have recovered. Although I will be having a later harvest on those plants affected.) What still gets past are the tiny baby bunnies. But they have just been chewing on my baby lettuce and spinach mostly now. My husband calls those last minute throw in plants my decoys.
I do have one really strange Hungarian Wax plant. The thin peppers start off growing down like Hot banana, and are a very pale yellow color. Has the double ring on top like the Banana peppers also. Also, the pods start off yellow vs. green, which is odd, since neither the Hungarian or banana peppers start off yellow. I will try one tomorrow to see how it is.
Anyways, I have been drooling over my Jalapinos and have been very tempted to pick them now before they are fully grown. I am dying to slap some on a burger, YUM!
