My first harvest of 2014! At 6/10 oz., it's the first Happy Yummy sweet pepper to ripen on the plant I brought inside in October. I had it on my salad the day it was picked. It was good, but not nearly as sweet as those grown outside in the warm sunshine.
Visit Daphne's Dandelions to see who else had a harvest last week!
Visit Daphne's Dandelions to see who else had a harvest last week!
Who ray for the first harvest of the year! I will have to try that next year with some peppers, sounds like a good idea!!
ReplyDeleteStoney, it doesn't bear a lot through the winter, maybe because I pruned it back quite a bit to fit in the window, but all I've done is water it every two weeks and turn the plant 1/4 turn to try to keep it growing straight. It's looking very healthy, so I can hopefully set it out in May and have some super early peppers!
DeleteYou have a harvest in the middle of Winter! Now I feel inadequate, ha. You rock!! That is a beauty. Is it hot or mild?
ReplyDeleteHeehee! It's a sweet pepper, 1st. If I'd known it was going to be so successful, I'd have grown the hot one too. I gave that one to my son, and he hasn't said if it's still alive or not. Both the sweet and hot were from seeds from the same parent plant. The hot one had sweet flesh and really hot seeds, the sweet one was sweet all the way through. I still have a bunch of the seeds, but won't know if the peppers will be hot or sweet until I grow and taste them!
DeleteI have always heard you take them inside and grow , but I have never done it, but I need to try that! You always inspire me to try something new:-)
ReplyDeleteRobbie, once I tossed hot pepper seeds from the spice rack into a pot of soil and grew them on a coffee table. They were gorgeous, and filled with tiny peppers! This is a first at bringing in a potted pepper from the garden though. It was grown in that pot all summer, not moved into the pot later.
DeleteI'm guessing your blog is fixed and comments work again. I had several people that I couldn't leave comments on. I wish I knew who they all were. I just have no memory. But anyway, whoohoo for your first harvest of the year. One year I tried to keep a pepper alive over the winter. The poor pepper. RIP
ReplyDeleteDaphne, I didn't realize the comments weren't working. I did lose my "reply" button, and had to work on finding a fix for that. Now it seems the only problem is when I hit that reply button, the screen jumps way to the top of the post and I have to scroll all the way back down to the comment box.
DeleteI picked a second pepper this week, but it looked the same and weighed the same as the first one, so I'll not blog about it. I ate the first one on a salad, and the second one on a sandwich. Pepper plant is thriving, but no producing much.