Pick a peck of pickled peppers....

[Broke Down Ranch]

Ok, so they're not pickled but I would BET there is more than a peck!

I now have proof that my butt is NOT big from sitting in front of the computer all day...


(be glad my camera does not record sound! )

Here is the bulk of what I picked. I did not get the serranos or all of the jalapeno's picked

New Mexico Green Chile - "Sandia"

Jalapeno

Habanero

Corno Di Toro (Italian sweet pepper)

Pablano

New Mexico Green Chile - "Big Jim"

 

[Greensage45]

Bravo!

Wow, well done! That is quite the bumper crop!

I love all those colors and I can only imagine all the flavors!

Ron

 

[obsessed]

tell your secret! How many plants did you grow? What are you feeding them? How do you keep the sweet from mixing with the hot? How did you get som any red one? Dude, I love me a red jalapeno!!

 

[obsessed]

ok and what are you going to do with them? How will you store them?

oh so jealous, very very jealous...

 

[injunjoe]

Wow that is a load of peppers.
If you had a fat bottom before, after all that pick'en,I am sure you worked it off!

What are you going to do with all them fine peppers?
That is a week long project itself!

 

[Broke Down Ranch]

tell your secret! How many plants did you grow? What are you feeding them? How do you keep the sweet from mixing with the hot? How did you get som any red one? Dude, I love me a red jalapeno!!

1) How many did I grow? 12 jalapeno, 18 serrano, 12 bell pepper, 6 NuMex Big Jim, 3 NuMex Sandia, 4 pablano, 3 habanero, 1 corno di toro.

2) What am I feeding them? Lots of goat poo

3) I'm sure they did cross-pollinate but I did not save the seeds - the cross-pollination does not show up unless you plant seeds from the crosses. The bells still tasted like bells, etc, etc...

4) How did I get so many red? I left them suckers on the plants



I hope to fire up the smoker in the next day or 2 and make me some chipotle peppers

 

[beefy]

lol @ you texuns and your peppers.

 

[Broke Down Ranch]

lol @ you texuns and your peppers.

Oh yeah! I love me some chile relleno! And what would homemade salsa without homegrown peppers?

 

[Hattie the Hen]

I am just SO IMPRESSED with all those peppers; both the quantity, variety & sheer beauty of them......!! Congratulations! :bouquet


:rose Hattie :rose

 

[Broke Down Ranch]

Back on Monday I had placed an ad on Craigslist wanting wood chips. So someone from the electric company contacted me Tuesday saying they had some crews out cutting trees from powerlines (which I know is necessary but irks the HECK out of me) to get my address. Yesterday afternoon we had one of those chipper trucks show up with a crew of Hispanic men.

I told them thank you for all the wood chips by sending them home with Wal-Mart bags full of peppers. I told them they could bring all the wood chips they want - I plan to build a driveway where our "new-to-us" house sits so we won't be parking on a mud slick. Plus all the places I can use them around the yard! :bun

I think it was a fair trade and I am looking forward to having all the wood chips I want. Yesterday's load smelled like yummy cedar