George Shirley wrote:
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Before my throat burned out I used to make a lot of pepper sauce, also
hot pepper flakes for sprinkling on. Nowadays it's only sweet peppers
and we eat them raw, cooked in many sorts of dishes, and many bags of
chopped peppers in vacuum bags for ease in finding them for cooking.

how do you get them finished? do you leave them on
the plant until they've dried completely or do you pull
the plant and hang it or what?

i've never done any dried pepper anything...


I may have mentioned this before but I used to swap Chile seeds all over
the world by postal. One of my best trades was a guy in Bucharest who
traded some really hot Chile's that I can't remember the name of. I then
grew the !@#$% hot ones, traded seeds off all over North America, and
finally just quit eating the things at all. Then all the terrorism stuff
started and no mo' swapping peppers. I made some really good hot sauces
back then that were very tasty.

Here's a hint, but not about chillies, grow some New Zealand spinach,
very tasty leaves when cooked or raw. In temperate climates they will
reseed for years. At each leaf junction the plant makes its seeds, not
round nor square but almost square. I need to get another start as they
finally gave up trying to grow. I see online that the seed packets run
from $US3 to $US 1+.

Miss Tilly Dawg Shirley had a growth removed from her nose yesterday and
is happily recovering at home. The vets around Houston are very
expensive, a little over two grand on this one, but she's worth it all,
best dog we've ever had.

aw! glad it was something that could be taken
care of.

gonna be out there weeding, watering today
and get the cucumbers picked through again. will be
another hot day later.


songbird