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A little bit of nothing
Our troll guarding the last green squash
One pumpkin/squash out of so many that we spied in the garden.
The goats came and ate all the leaves. They left this tubby little specimen hanging on the gate, still attached to it's vine. We had rain, we had sunshine and there it hung, going nowhere, doing nothing. So I cut it off and will wait for it to go yellow.
Red hot peppers
Our best crop this year.
They come up by themselves and grow with no help from me.
That's probably why they do so well.
I'll harvest them and dry them but we still haven't used last year's or those from the year before.
They're very spicy. A little goes a long way.
Oh I love your troll! They are very good at what they do! ☺
ReplyDeleteGuardians of my garden ! Along with a few gnomes. I love them all
DeleteRed hot peppers...nothing better!!!
ReplyDeleteHmm, a little bit of heat is fine but it's so easy to put in just a little more heat than I like. They go in flake by flake
DeleteThe troll is charming. I need one of these in the garden, there is a rabbit here that eats everything that grows.
ReplyDeleteI am very fond of my troll. He was a present from my daughters so even more precious
DeletePerennial red hot chilli peppers. I wish we had them growing in our Irish vegetable garden. Does Troll have a name?
ReplyDeleteThe trolls name is Gruff. I think I mixed him up with a certain Billy Goat.
DeleteThe chilli's come up every year by themselves, more and more. And it seems the hotter the summer the hotter the chilli
How long will those dried red hot peppers last?
ReplyDeleteWe grind them up and put them in a jar. They last for years.
DeleteWe have only just planted peppers and chilli plants, apparently they only have a short time span down here but looking forward to having a good harvest. Spinach seems to be doing well though.
ReplyDeleteSorry Amy , your comment went into spam. Spinach is doing well here too, though not in my garden. It's a winter vege
DeleteSpicy hot peppers. Just can’t eat them anymore.
ReplyDeleteAs for those goats. Maybe some roast goat meat will be on the menu in the future.
The goats are tasty. The meat isn't too strong or tough. Our neighbour has 'harvested' a couple
DeleteWe have lots of pots of herbs like parsley, coriander and basil, but never red hot peppers. What I would most love are passionfruits but they seem to struggle here (I am in Melbourne).
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I would love to grow a passionfruit vine but somehow I don't think it would do well here either
DeleteHave you tried fermenting your peppers into a sauce? Looked online for how to of fermented chili sauce - simple chilis water salt (and carrots and red bell peppers if you want to de-escalate the heat a bit). Fermentation should strictly speaking have an airlock but I used a plastic clip top lunch box and burped it once a day. Whizz it all up when it reaches an acidity you like (does therefore require tasting....). I cooked mine after that to stop the fermentation process, and so that I could bottle it hot and seal it. (I used small bottles and jars so that once opened we could use it in a month or two). The last bottles are now two years old and still fine. I would definitely do it again if I could grow enough chilis (we got a whole 1 this year!)
ReplyDeleteI shall try this. Sounds interesting. Something different
DeleteI bought a big Pumpkin for Halloween this year, then ate the flesh in soup later. It was the first time I'd realised how delicious Pumpkin could be.
ReplyDeleteI love real pumpkin but these are usually watery squash. All will be revealed. One winters day
DeleteWow, that’s a lot of peppers! Nice bounty for no fussing :-)
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