Wednesday, November 12, 2008

Peppers a Plenty

While other garden bloggers are posting about their first freeze, first snow, and putting their gardens to bed for the winter, over here in my garden we are having a fall bumper crop of hot peppers.

There is something a little off about my chili pequeno plant. The leaves are turning black. There has not been a freeze and they look perfectly healthy. The plant is loaded with peppers. hmmmm....



Here is a picture of the peppers I picked today with the lovely bouquet of flowers Manly Man gave me for our anniversary. Those are not all the peppers. I got bored and stopped picking them. I will get back out there again tomorrow.

What to do with all these pepper? Well, I joined the 29 Day Giving Challenge. My gift today was a pint of Serrano to the neighbor who loves them. She says they won't eat the habaneros. I will make some more hot sauce and pickle some. Then I may need to put up a sign in the yard saying,

"FREE PEPPERS LOOKING FOR A GOOD HOME"

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20 comments:

  1. Debbie .. I just wanted to thank you for your message .. you are a kind thoughtful person girl .. I appreciated it very much : )
    Joy

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  2. Joy, you are welcome. It was heartfelt. Take care.

    Garden Girl, yum is right.

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  3. Too hot for me Debbi. I am a wuss when it come to spicy foods.

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  4. Debbi, Try some pepper jelly! It is wonderful with cream cheese on crackers (I like Triscuits). If you don't have time to make the jelly, just get some from the store, melt it down, and add your peppers! Viola, lazy chicks hot pepper jelly!

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  5. Tima, more for me. Wait, there are too many.

    Nola, you are brilliant. I so don't want to make jelly right now and will totally use your lazy chicks trick.

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  6. Beautiful peppers. Lovely bouquet. Silly monkeys. You are one lucky woman! --Curmudgeon

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  7. They look so appetizing! I have to really watch it eating peppers due to acid reflux. But I do love the taste of them. Feed them to the monkeys.
    Brenda

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  8. OH my gosh Debbi---stay close to the bathroom and keep a fire extinguisher handy. I saw all those peppers and those lovely roses and busted out laughing. Seems like beauty and the beast.

    I do like the lazy pepper jelly idea.

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  9. Brenda, Teenage monkey eats them. The others can only handle them in salsa.

    Anna, I guess I should consider my photo compositions a little better, but don't count on it. Nola's suggestion was great wasn't it?

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  10. You've got peppers coming in, and I've got a second crop of apples on my apple tree that isn't anywhere close to dropping its leaves for the year. Go figure!

    Cindy

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  11. Cindy, two fruit crops in one year. That is something.

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  12. Well I know I'm in the southern hemisphere but can one of you clever gardeners give me a clue, that even though it's warm here and heading into Summer in just two weeks, why my chilli plant in a pot isn't doing anything, in spite of us moving it to the front porch where it gets heaps of sun? I have never had trouble growing chillis, although don't think we've ever tried them in a pot.
    Debbi, your peppers (we call em chillis) look gorgeous! Can you put an extra sign on that to see who wants some eggs???? Anyone???

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  13. Foxy, we would eat all your eggs. I have found that peppers don't grow very well in pots for me. I mean the plants look great, but not so many peppers/chilis

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  14. Debbi - love those peppers - they are so pretty. i know about harvest overload - had it myself today with lemons and tomatoes...something to post about, right?! So glad you're doing the 29-day challenge. Peppers to give are great!

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  15. Diana, lemons, I cant even get my lemon tree to bloom and it is three years old. Very jealous. I am enjoying the give away.

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