One perfect pointed pepper
Peppers are a tough crop for England. Even in a greenhouse, there’s not enough sunlight and heat (and we’re in the sunniest county in the country). So it’s always exciting to pick the first pepper of the season.
Speaking of cold, we’ve put the central heating on tonight. I think we’ve had the heat on at least two days every month this summer. I’ve had an abiding dread that I’m going to see myself out in an unusually cold era, and it does seem to be coming to pass.
I mailed off my request for an absentee ballot today. I’m cutting it finer than I like, but I lost the email with the address I had to send it to. I tried to get this in the post in June (yes, I did eventually find my house on the map), but I should get everything in and back in time.
Anyway, that’s it for another week. Have a good weekend, everyone!
Posted: August 30th, 2024 under personal.
Comments: 5
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Comment from QuasiModo
Time: August 30, 2024, 7:34 pm
Have a nice weekend! 🙂
Comment from Armybrat
Time: August 30, 2024, 11:56 pm
The growing season here in south FL is touted as 365days/year. Turns out…not so much! It becomes so hot and so humid that shit just starts to mold and whither and become a bug haven. So this time of year, while everybody else in the country is enjoying homegrown stuff…our gardens are dead. And so we stopped at a Mexican mart today and picked up jalapeños from somewhere else, damn near 6” long and 2” wide (and yes, I’m very certain they are jalapeños and not another variety). They will become stuffed with some leftover pulled pork, cream cheese, cheddar cheese, scallions, wrapped in bacon and smoked on the Traeger for tomorrow’s lunch.
We’ll plant all our new tomato and pepper plants in the next month.
Comment from Durnedyankee
Time: August 31, 2024, 1:25 am
Been nursing two, what I thought were banana peppers, thru last winter till today.
They’re not bad looking, but kinda flat in flavor.
I’ll carry on keeping them, my brother from another mother has some green bell pepper plants that are going on 3 years old.
Comment from Uncle Badger
Time: August 31, 2024, 8:24 am
It’s supposed to be possible to keep peppers from year to year here in the UK, but though I’ve had plants survive, they have been in such a sorry state that come Spring I’ve donated them to the compost heap and started again. It’s now getting so expensive to heat a greenhouse in winter that just keeping it frost free is the best most of us can manage.
I find them quite difficult, despite the fibs the seedsmen tell on the packets. Starting them in late January, even in a greenhouse they’re never ripe before September.
Comment from Durnedyankee
Time: September 1, 2024, 12:00 am
The ones I bought in April from the nursery produced a, one, single, solitary, red pepper, about the size of a good green grape, reminding me they were red pepper plants.
I don’t expect I’ll see another before they have to be brought in to the garage for wintering.
My grandfather was an estate gardener, and my dad always had a great garden, me, alas, I’m good at feeding the compost pile.
There was a rather funny cartoon I saw earlier this year that sums up my abilities.
The first panel has a sign over plants for sale saying
“Plants you’ll kill in 2 months”
The second says “Plants you’ll kill in 4 weeks”
And the third says
“Plants you’ll kill in 2 weeks”.
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