A Good Old Fashioned RedHotChiliPepper Grow Off

[andIhalped]

Salsa harvest today made with homegrown garlic, 'maters & peppers (poblano, peruvian yellow, jalep, havasu, & roasters)

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• andIhalped
• Aug 1, 2018

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• andIhalped
• Aug 1, 2018

 

[Kismet]

Been not paying much heed to the vegi garden but luckily one of my friends adopted it. Maters are coming in but have a huge Groundhog that will literally climb the tomato cages and pull the tomato plants down to his level. #Triggerfingertwitching

 

[newty]

Nice veggies Iti and Halped! My cherry tomatoes are going nuts righ now!

Excellent! Thanks for the pics on the hostas

 

[andIhalped]

Nice veggies Iti and Halped! My cherry tomatoes are going nuts righ now!

mine too!

 

[andIhalped]

I'll be heading to the food bank this week to drop some of these off...this is just what came outta the garden today

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• andIhalped
• Aug 5, 2018

 

[ZebSoames]

So this is one of my giant sunflowers. Alot of seeds settling in nicely

 

[andIhalped]

Great fotos of awesome sunflowers. Do you harvest the seeds? I do on my biggest & use them for fall baking.

 

[newty]

NIIICE! I love that you used a lighter to compare

 

[Itibitiguy]

I haven't stepped in the GH since Sunday... long drive to work atm. But the wife is watering and picked up the rope ground cherries.

 

[newty]

Time for an update now that the fruits of my labour are becoming delicious veggies!

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We have been eating peas all month, zucchini that’s shaped like a pumpkin, onions, strawberries, chives and herbs. Cherry tomatoes and peppers are almost ready! Woop

 

[Itibitiguy]

Looking good newty

Heres some of my peppers... not sure what the big ones are.... the little green guy is a habanero. Then it's my one cherry tomato next to the peas ... the fern looking thing is asparagus and then the over ground stuff is the ground cherries... hoping to get enough to go to market in sept

 

[newty]

Great job Iti! Those look delish

 

[andIhalped]

Today's pepper harvest for salsa: peruvian yellow, poblano, y jalepeno

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• andIhalped
• Aug 23, 2018

The peruvian are almost as hot as habeneros...so I'll be the only one in my house eating the salsa I make out of them

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• andIhalped
• Aug 23, 2018

 

[newty]

Awesome haul! Yummm

 

[StoneOtter]

Doing great over here! My mouth is watering looking at all iti's hots!

 

[newty]

Will peppers and cherry tomatoes turn colour off the vine? I’m not sure mine will finish outside as it gets colder? Can I pick them and put them in paper bags to ripen?

 

[StoneOtter]

Will peppers and cherry tomatoes turn colour off the vine? I’m not sure mine will finish outside as it gets colder? Can I pick them and put them in paper bags to ripen?

toms yes. peppers I think so

 

[newty]

I’ll start with some tomatoes

 

[andIhalped]

They'll continue to ripen on the vine as long as temps are above 50F.

But:

Best way to ripen tom's off the vine, if there's lots, is line a cardboard box with newspaper, put toms on newspaper, so they're not touching each other & close up the box. Some toms will take up to two weeks to ripen this way, but check 'em every few days to make sure nothing's rotting/molding.

Nothing magic in the newspaper, it just helps regulate humidity to prevent rot/mold. Same thing regarding not having the toms touching each other.

Grow on!

 

[Itibitiguy]

Tomatoes will last a long time if you don't want them to ripen... I think I had ours on the counter last year for a month or more.