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Pepper mania

19 years ago

I think I went a little nuts this year with my peppers. I've always grown 8 or 10 pepper plants. I love bell peppers and sweet peppers to cook with. I love to grill hot peppers to eat with my steaks.

This year I planted 22 plants! Well, there were several new ones I wanted to try and mom bought me some Anaheims I was looking for, and I grew a few from seed that I like......guess it just snowballed........

I planted:

1 Concho - hot jalapeno

1 Fish - very hot, variegated foliage

1 Cyklon - Spanish sweet heirloom

1 Jeffee - hot jalapeno

2 Chilipeno - large jalapeno, my favorite

3 Delicias - mild jalapeno, great for grilling

1 Satan Kiss - hot pepper I got at the swap

4 Anaheim - med. heat pepper I love to grill

2 Buran - sweet polish heirloom

2 Korona - sweet polish heirloom

3 Calif. Wonder - green bell

1 Big Bertha - big green bell

It's just my DH and I so we'll have plenty! I'll probably freeze some and eat alot. :)

Lynn

Comments (4)

  • 19 years ago

    Wow! If they do well you will have LOTS of peppers! Great recipes are needed huh? lol. How about CHILIES RELLENOS?...yummm. And if you don't want to take the time to stuff them there are a lot of great cassorole recipes. You could bake and freeze casseroles for all winter.
    Of course I am not familiar with all those types of peppers. I have grown few varieties...mostly bell, banana and some jalapeno.
    Good luck with all your peppers. I know who to come to if mine never produce...lol. (Just kidding).
    G.M.

  • 19 years ago

    Oh Lynn,
    Those peppers sound so good. I am a pepperhead. I eat habaneros with every meal. I used to eat jalapenos until I started growing habaneros. Now I can only stand jalapenos if they are grilled. I can't bite the habaneros like I did the jalapenos. I have to cut them up with a knife into small pieces and cut out most or all of the seeds. But I am no doubt addicted to habaneros. I guess they are my favorite food in the whole world because I eat them with every single meal. They're definitely like a drug to me. I highly recommend you try them. If they are too hot for you, Texas A & M has developed a Tam Habanero that is milder, but has the same smoky flavor. I haven't seen them for sale locally, but they probably can be found for sale on the Internet.

    Two other peppers you ought to try are Chile Tepin and Chile Pequin. They are tiny little hot peppers. I love them both. And I have a delicious unnamed orange pepper that I got from some young man at the second OK swap. I can't remember his name, but he turned me on to a fantastic pepper. It's hot, but not too hot to bite into it. I've grown it now since that second year swap we had at the OSU OKC meeting room. It produces for me all winter in the greenhouse, by far the best greenhouse producer I grow. I have seeds for all the above if you'd like to try them next spring.
    Dawna

  • 19 years ago

    Hi Lynn and Dawna,

    I guess there are a lot of peppers growing in Oklahoma this year. I like the milder ones, DH loves the hotter ones, so I grow a mix. And, because they are such pretty plants, I always mix a few ornamental pepper plants in with my annuals/perennials in my borders. Here, as best as I can remember it, is our grow list for 2007:

    Red Habanero
    Orange Habanero
    Chocolate or Brown Habanero
    White Habanero
    Mustard Habanero
    Peach Habanero
    Purple Cayenne
    Purple Jalapeno
    Lemon Drop Hot Pepper
    Orange Thai Hot Pepper
    Bulgarian Carrot Hot Pepper
    'Alma' Paprika Pepper
    Anaheim College 64L
    Fish Pepper (a variegated fruit and foliage hot pepper)

    Banana Supreme Sweet Pepper
    Red Beauty Sweet Bell Pepper
    Orange Sun Sweet Bell Pepper
    Purple Beauty Sweet Bell Pepper
    Chocolate Beauty Sweet Bell Pepper
    Mini Belle Sweet Pepper Mix
    Roumanian Rainbow Sweet Pepper
    Bolivian Rainbow Ornamental/Edible Pepper

    Marbles Ornamental Pepper
    Pretty in Purple Ornamental Pepper
    Riot Ornamental Pepper
    Poinsettia Ornamental Pepper
    Starburst Ornamental Pepper

    Obviously I grow more than we can eat, but we freeze and dry some and give away bunches to our friends and neighbors. G.M., I'm right here in Love County if you need peppers this summer. :)

    Lynn, I grew Satan's Kiss after I got it from HotPepperDad (Now CravinCapsacin) at the 2005 spring swap. It was a great producer in spite of our drought.

    Dawn

  • 19 years ago

    Now that is some SERIOUS pepper growing Dawn.....and I was totally impressed already. lol You guys are really into peppers and no doubt about it! You all are growing peppers I have never even heard of. All I have is a little patch of bell peppers.... sweet green and red ones..haha.
    Enjoy....they say it is very good for you.
    G.M.

    P.S. Dawn watch out...when I get hungry for veggies this summer I may just look you up!!!

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