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when to pick a pepper
On 8/9/2016 8:00 AM, songbird wrote:
George Shirley wrote: ... 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... Nope, have you seen those drying peppers on the tv shows? Some folks pull the entire plant and hang it upside down to dry, I never did that one as the peppers sometimes keep producing for a year or more in our climate. Basically I put them in an old produce bag, one of those red jobs, fill it with peppers, hang in a dry place with little moisture, wait until they dry completely then strip the goodies from the useless stuff. You can also weave a line of string and tie the chilies into a line on it to dry. 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 Well, she's not snoring anymore for one thing, the other is that she is healing rapidly. She's lying on the couch behind my desk chair sleeping peacefully. She finally got a real meal this morning plus a very small, lean treat just for being a good girl. Her two main things to love are eating and pooping, typical dog. G She's a good watch dog too, she starts growling before anyone ever steps on the porch, when they knock or ring the doorbell, she goes berserk, hair standing up, etc. When they get inside she tries to lick the skin off their ankles if she knows them, if she doesn't she walks around watching them closely and growling very low but ready to leap at their throats. I really don't think she could get a throat unless they trip and fall on the floor, she's not much of a jumper with both hind legs rebuilt. |
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when to pick a pepper
George Shirley wrote:
songbird wrote: .... 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... Nope, have you seen those drying peppers on the tv shows? no, i hardly ever watch tv these days. most time i might listen if that, but usually i tune it out. not my type of thing. i do like a good movie or documentary once in a while. Some folks pull the entire plant and hang it upside down to dry, I never did that one as the peppers sometimes keep producing for a year or more in our climate. Basically I put them in an old produce bag, one of those red jobs, fill it with peppers, hang in a dry place with little moisture, wait until they dry completely then strip the goodies from the useless stuff. You can also weave a line of string and tie the chilies into a line on it to dry. i will be eating ours or making pepper sauce of some kind out of them. sweet and sour is likely since i need some acid in there (i don't pressure can anything here). just mainly want a good red pepper sauce to replace tomato sauce for pasta or some other common dishes. ....Tilly ... 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. .... Well, she's not snoring anymore for one thing, the other is that she is healing rapidly. She's lying on the couch behind my desk chair sleeping peacefully. She finally got a real meal this morning plus a very small, lean treat just for being a good girl. Her two main things to love are eating and pooping, typical dog. G She's a good watch dog too, she starts growling before anyone ever steps on the porch, when they knock or ring the doorbell, she goes berserk, hair standing up, etc. When they get inside she tries to lick the skin off their ankles if she knows them, if she doesn't she walks around watching them closely and growling very low but ready to leap at their throats. I really don't think she could get a throat unless they trip and fall on the floor, she's not much of a jumper with both hind legs rebuilt. heheh, some doggies are quite the characters, i like a lot of them, but we can't have any here, so i have to like other people's doggies when i can visit them. same with kitties or other animals. just worms here as pets. that is as far as i go for indoor critters at the moment. and a few house- plants. good enough. songbird |
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when to pick a pepper
On 08/11/2016 11:09 PM, songbird wrote:
no, i hardly ever watch tv these days. most time i might listen if that, but usually i tune it out. not my type of thing. i do like a good movie or documentary once in a while. Stay away from the Korean Dramas (soaps). They are addictive. (It is too late for me. Save yourselves!) |
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T wrote:
.... Stay away from the Korean Dramas (soaps). They are addictive. (It is too late for me. Save yourselves!) not. to. worry. songbird |
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