Mini Chocolate Bell Pepper
This impressive miniature bell really pumps out the peppers! The chocolate 3-lobed fruit are 2 1/2 inches wide by 1 1/4 inches long. Very sweet, and excellent on veggie platters, in salads, stuffed, or cored and eaten whole. Peppers ripen from green to chocolate.
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Harvest before the Storm
Hurricane Irene was upon us, so we went out to the garden, harvested whatever looked vaguely ready, then topped the raised bed with netting in hopes of keeping everything safe. Looks like everything did okay.
Some of the tomatoes were bursting on the vine, I guess because this August has been very rainy. And now with the Hurricane, I think this August was the wettest one on record.
Ripe Jalepenos and more Cubanelle
A couple Jalepeno peppers turned fully ripe, super bright red color. We normally eat them green, will be nice to try them fully ripe.
Garden 2012 Wishlist:
Epazote
a.k.a. wormseed, Jesuit’s tea, Mexican tea, Dysphania ambrosioidesBlossom End Rot?
Our white eggplant may be suffering from blossom end rot.
This post is more of a reminder to myself to take a new picture and see if it’s gotten worse. Next year, will definitely have to supplement with calcium.
Tomato Seed Saving
Doing a bit an experiment with seed saving. These are seeds I saved from one Celebrity tomato and one Sun Gold Grape tomato. I’ve read that you are supposed to do a special fermentation procedure to properly save seed from tomatoes, but I just rinsed very well and set them out to dry. If we only get one seed from each type to germinate, I’ll be thrilled, and consider the experiment to be a success.
YAY SALAD!
Wish I could say the lettuce was ours, maybe next season.
The tomato is from our “rescued” Celebrity tomato plant. Great flavor, slightly sweet, not too acidic, but not heavy on the tomato flavor either.
Love this rooftop bucket garden!
Urban Garden of the Day #10: A Rooftop Garden featuring Global Buckets/Sub-Irrigation Planters (SIPs), Chicago, Illinois.
For more photos of this cool set up go here: The Green Roof Growers.
(Source: iggymogo)
Cubanelle Peppers
We have been harvesting some Cubanelle peppers recently, not quite ready, but we want to get to them before our garden pests do.
Ideally they would be more towards red, but it has been neat watching the color transition on these peppers. They have gone from a very pale lime green through yellow to orange and now to a reddish orange.
The taste of the peppers is quite interesting, they have a green bell pepper taste but with a bit of heat, like a jalepeno pepper. Had some thinly sliced, minus seeds and veins, on a salad, which was nice.
