Sigh.....all the sales around here are long over....if indeed they ever had much at all interesting!
Waddya gonna do with the hot peppers? You best be getting them in the ground sooner rather than later.
Linda C

Hey Linda

The peppers are all in large black plastic nursery pots and fruiting already. Most still have blooms to open but they all have at least 2 - 3 peppers well on their way to maturity.

If anyone has suggestions on what to make with them, bring it on!

Orange Scotch Bonnet
Kung Pao
Mucho Nacho
Whitney Hybrid (a sweet pepper)
Lemon Drop (a surprisingly hot citrus flavored pepper from Peru)

Alexa

That's a great list, Alexa! And the peppers do sound fun. You can actually grow them in pots too! I gave my sister (in Iowa) a few pepper seedlings a couple of years ago. One of them is still in the original pot (she moves it inside in the winter) and it even produces a pepper or two during the winter!

I like you list of new hostas too. Choo choo train is one I bid on, on Ebay, but didn't win. I'll just have to picture it in your garden instead of mine :-)

Joyce

I put the photos on the gallery....

Alexa

Here is a link that might be useful: shopping spree photos

Out side of just putting them into a stir fry here and there....(don't do that with Scotch bonnet!)...pepper jelly! Or mix with other veggies and make a super hot pepper, onion, cuke, green tomato relish. MMM! Vinegar some sugar, mustard seed...
That's make you sit up and slap yo mammy!
Linda C

Lindac---ROFLMHO, but you wouldn't do that to MY mammy--she'd slap you back twice as hard! LOL

My father use to make his own hot sauce with the vinegar and peppers! He'd keep it for
special, like on his 'Black-eyed Peas' and 'Mustard Greens'! He grew up in Alabama,
and moved to Florida where he got connected with *us* and then died in N.C., alongside
my Mom,--having still grown a fabulous vegetable garden in the mountains, up to their end!

Alexa--what a haul!! You've had quite a fun sprreeeee, for sure! I hope you can get out,
before dark and get them planted, at least in the ground, even if it's in their pots!

That's what I'm thinking to do with anything left-over in pots this Fall--if I have any! My new attempt to
preserve them over-winter!

Alexa,

Saawwwweeeeeeeet! What a good time you had and what a list!
I just bought Toy Soldier myself a couple of weeks ago.
My 6 yr. old granddaughter, however, wheedled a piece of it out of me for her "Fantasy" hosta bed.

Char

What are the spots on Choo Choo Train? just sun damage? I got a sun power with little brown dots on them and after reading about all the bad bugs out there could not find out what they where.

Nice load, wish I could find a Orange Crush thats really cool :)

Good for you Alexa! I'll be on a hiatus for the rest of the year and limited the next 4 to come! I'll have to read, look and droole....

Deb

Thanks everyone.

I think Orange Crush is still available from some vendors - try In the Country Garden and Gifts and Jims Hostas. Both still list it as available.

Alexa

Linda, have you tried some of the farmers markets in the towns surrounding you?

Oh, that Orange Crush does look interesting!

Alexa....
Your 'Orange Crush' looks great! It fits the description in the Hosta Registry, but the photo in the Library and the one from Fransen Hostas in Holland, show an ordinary green leaf/white margined Hosta, like a hundred others available. Do you know if Russell Gardens was growing them in full sun exposure?
After seeing your photo, I decided it is a MH and checked prices from several sources (too Xpensive for El Cheapo me) and tried to buy some TC's, but alas, Q&Z is sold out for this year.
Great photos, all!
Rb

Hey Rb

They were growing it in a hoop house, but I do not know the shade percentage of the mesh. I can try to find out if you really want to know.

I will say that I think this may be like Orange Marmalade in the sense that the newer growth has the orange tint to it and as the leaves mature they look more light green. If you look close at my photo, you can see the greener leaves underneath those glowing orange ones.

I hope that helps.

Alexa

I think you're going to love your Heuchera Hollywood, caliloo! I bought it about a month or so ago and I love its red waving flowerets. I got one bunch & then they bloomed again AND THEY ARE STILL BLOOMING (or rather keeping their blooms) I have them in a bed with jack frost brunnera and I'm hoping the silver/blue combo will work well with the regular brunnera & sweet kate spider wort & endless summer hydrangeas.

Isn't shopping just TOO DAMN FUN! I'm all psyched to rescue my lacerated Cherry Berry hosta & put it up in a container for more "punch" and of course to rescue her from her slug "tendences." Did I say that right, All?
MyCityGarden

Thanks for the response, Alexa.
Guess I'll give it a rest until later. Checked with SO & WG and they don't have it, either.
Rb