Peppers for the Garden!

[peteyfoozer]

I have had jalapeos and anaheims do great here, but not last year. I have some jalapeo, and pepperoncini seeds started in the window. They are taking longer to come up, but i see one pushing thru the soil. My delphiniums, calendula, basil, parsley, pansies and tomatoes are already thru the soil and I am getting excited again...even though the garden is covered in snow!

 

[HunkieDorie23]

I have started my peppers.

Hungarian Hot Wax
Alma paprika
King of the North
Chili (they haven't sprouted yet)

 

[digitS']

Hey, Teresa.

I just learned something about the Yummy I grew last year. It is classed as a Hungarian Sweet!

Both Hungarian hot and sweet peppers have been in my garden before - I wouldn't have thought of Yummy as a Hungarian. Maybe, it is just that it's so small. Still, some of these actually have 4 lobes like a bell. They are real sweet, tender and prolific in my garden but the plants are small too.

Most of the ones on top are Yummies. As best as I understand, they are an open-pollinated variety:

sorry, more cell phone pictures

If they had 4 lobes, they were really short little guys:

Steve

 

[HunkieDorie23]

I will have to look for that, I don't have any sweet hungarian right now. They always put on some many more peppers then we can use I made my husband pick between hot or sweet and he went with hot.

 

[digitS']

I have had jalapeos and anaheims do great here, but not last year. I have some jalapeo, and pepperoncini seeds started in the window. They are taking longer to come up, but i see one pushing thru the soil. My delphiniums, calendula, basil, parsley, pansies and tomatoes are already thru the soil and I am getting excited again...even though the garden is covered in snow!

I'm curious if you have been there very long, Petey. You know, the very cool start to the '11 season was about from your neck of the woods, north. No question it reached JoJo in BC and I don't know how much further. The entire rest of the continent probably had an early and very warm year.

Yeah, I was out in the big veggie garden and it was covered with snow. There's that thread where I'm supposed to keep track of the garden thru the year. The 1st picture out there is going to look kind of strange no matter when I take it. Either it is covered with snow or covered with dead plants . . . no "tractor guy" this year so I'm the person responsible for tilling those plants in. The other gardens were cleared last fall but . . . they are still covered with snow .

Steve

 

[foti]

its nice to know that are more people like to grow peppers.
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[momofdrew]

I just started yellow banana and Cal wonder...I have never had great luck with bell type peppers but I love the flavor so I keep planting them...

 

[ducks4you]

In 2011 I bought 1/2 a dozen habenera's. Last Fall I dug 2 of them out and grew them INSIDE this winter. Right now, they are both in a big pot on the south side of my screened in/windowed (unheated) porch, and I have a good 8-9 little, red peppers on them. We've gone from almost a freeze last week to nearly 90's forecasted for this Saturday. They aren't getting planted outside YET, but they should get a good baking this weekend.
MY intentions for these peppers are to make insecticidal spray from them. I'll harvest, boil down and spray.
I'll be starting sweet peppers and jalepeno's from seed later this week. They aren't happy until it's hot out, so I figure it isn't too late to start from seed.

 

[desertlady]

wow !!!You got a lot of smoke coming out of your ears !!! What do you do with them ?

 

[digitS']

Me, DL??

Well, I make quite a lot of spaghetti sauce at the end of the season . . . but, you mean the hot ones?

Some of them will be sold. Little baggies of Super Chilies go fairly easily . . . Some are dried or run thru the blender and then frozen. Scraping a little "fiery ice" out of a tupperware container is acceptable behavior at the table around here .

The pictures on this thread are all of sweet peppers, tho'. I am a big fan of fresh sweet peppers and even if this is a difficult climate for peppers of any kind, I'm happy to find those that do well for me .

Steve