kathryn
Cathlete
I just had my first pepper off my pepper plants (could have eaten them sooner as green peppers, but red is more nutritous...and tastier). It just may have been the BEST red pepper I have ever had! Very sweet and tasty, and perfectly shaped (pointy, kind of like a large version of a hot pepper, but not hot), with no blemishes of any kind.
I didn't even prep it, just rinsed it off with the hose while I was watering and chowed down (my 'neighbors-across-the-way' probably think I'm a total nut job, because I often go out and eat stuff right off the plants, and they are more the type to cut down all the plants that are around their house and dig out dandelions one by one).
I was afraid I'd ruined my pepper crop after my two plants were blown over in a storm (I'd just read about protecting pepper plants from the wind the day before, but hadn't set up a support yet!), but they weren't broken, and I was able to prop them back up.
I'd thought fresh-from-the-garden cukes were the best...then my cherry tomatos...but I think the pepper may have them beat. And looking at my plants, I'll be able to have one a day for the next two weeks.
Yummy!
I didn't even prep it, just rinsed it off with the hose while I was watering and chowed down (my 'neighbors-across-the-way' probably think I'm a total nut job, because I often go out and eat stuff right off the plants, and they are more the type to cut down all the plants that are around their house and dig out dandelions one by one).
I was afraid I'd ruined my pepper crop after my two plants were blown over in a storm (I'd just read about protecting pepper plants from the wind the day before, but hadn't set up a support yet!), but they weren't broken, and I was able to prop them back up.
I'd thought fresh-from-the-garden cukes were the best...then my cherry tomatos...but I think the pepper may have them beat. And looking at my plants, I'll be able to have one a day for the next two weeks.
Yummy!