WOW those are some peppers Ken - you clearly have a penchant for hot stuff! I share your excitement but do you grow anything else?
I haven't had chance to read your link but I will later. I got a bit behind as I was disabled with a migraine at the weekend. Anyway, all is well here, and the weather is sunny but cool with rain showers later.
Last year we had a greater assortment of crops including zucchini, lettuce, a few onions, basil, etc. This year being I came upon these "special peppers" they have been the main focus, but there are numerous tomato plants scattered about, the cilantro which came back on its own accord and my wife did plant a bit of basil. Each year I hope to learn more and eventually, I suspect we will settle on a routine including probably some chickens eventually. One thing I'm still learning about is proper soil care, but a few months back you suggested a "gardening/permaculture" book in that regard and while I haven't read it yet, I did acquire it.....
Anyhow, assuming the peppers this season continue to grow as desired, I intend on experimenting with various ways to "concentrate" the pepper essence.....sort of like how the ole southern highlanders living in the hills around these parts used to concentrate the corn crop not easily grown nor taken to market being the infrastructure made it overly difficult. (You know - "moonshine" - ha, ha....).....fortunately I don't think there are any "rules" on what I do with the peppers I've grown and I intend on sharing what I learn as well as the product hopefully made!
Thank you Ken. So, in my smalholding did I grow all sorts: carrots, onions, potatoes, legumes of all sorts, (to restore the nitrogen), and special root crops as is our like in UK: swede, mangel-worzlel, turnips, and parsnips.
And our fruit bushes gave us, gooseberries, cranberry, rasberries, strawberries, all covered against the birds! We also had an orchard with apples (eating, cider, and cooking), plums, pears, damsons, blackberries, red currants, and sloes (to make sloe gin in the winter).
We also had a natural wood, with nuts of all kinds, hazel, horse chestnut, and many others. I made all our local wines, beer and spirits distilled from those lovely berries.
It was indeed a grand life, Ken, for 25 years and I don't regret a minute. Now I sail the world, and what a woderful world it is!
WOW those are some peppers Ken - you clearly have a penchant for hot stuff! I share your excitement but do you grow anything else?
I haven't had chance to read your link but I will later. I got a bit behind as I was disabled with a migraine at the weekend. Anyway, all is well here, and the weather is sunny but cool with rain showers later.
Last year we had a greater assortment of crops including zucchini, lettuce, a few onions, basil, etc. This year being I came upon these "special peppers" they have been the main focus, but there are numerous tomato plants scattered about, the cilantro which came back on its own accord and my wife did plant a bit of basil. Each year I hope to learn more and eventually, I suspect we will settle on a routine including probably some chickens eventually. One thing I'm still learning about is proper soil care, but a few months back you suggested a "gardening/permaculture" book in that regard and while I haven't read it yet, I did acquire it.....
Anyhow, assuming the peppers this season continue to grow as desired, I intend on experimenting with various ways to "concentrate" the pepper essence.....sort of like how the ole southern highlanders living in the hills around these parts used to concentrate the corn crop not easily grown nor taken to market being the infrastructure made it overly difficult. (You know - "moonshine" - ha, ha....).....fortunately I don't think there are any "rules" on what I do with the peppers I've grown and I intend on sharing what I learn as well as the product hopefully made!
Regards,
Ken
Thank you Ken. So, in my smalholding did I grow all sorts: carrots, onions, potatoes, legumes of all sorts, (to restore the nitrogen), and special root crops as is our like in UK: swede, mangel-worzlel, turnips, and parsnips.
And our fruit bushes gave us, gooseberries, cranberry, rasberries, strawberries, all covered against the birds! We also had an orchard with apples (eating, cider, and cooking), plums, pears, damsons, blackberries, red currants, and sloes (to make sloe gin in the winter).
We also had a natural wood, with nuts of all kinds, hazel, horse chestnut, and many others. I made all our local wines, beer and spirits distilled from those lovely berries.
It was indeed a grand life, Ken, for 25 years and I don't regret a minute. Now I sail the world, and what a woderful world it is!
All cedit to your peppers! :-)
Blessings
AP