New Spicy Recipes,Abundant Chile Usage and Maxing out Production
the blooming onions (tell you how > it turns out ) because the onions are that big our peppers > both sweet and hot did quite well the hots seem to be hotter than last > year the same varities were planted and the soil condition is almost the > same as last year maybe cool weather makes them hotter too > just one more thing before i sign off one of my friends took a picture > of us and little wayne our pumpkin on august 15 th when he was 312 lbs i > don't know how to attach it to this e-mail so i'll send you another with > the picture it's now 411 lbs and still growing enjoy the photo deb
Good to hear from you Deb. Enjoy those Bloomin Onions and WOW to the pumpkin! Keep the Chile Faith, Pepper Joe
> Hi Joe - Never sent a message to you before, so hope this works. I wanted to tell you that my thai peppers were quite variable - one is about a foot tall, but the others are only about 6 inches. I will admit they are not in the best soil, but my other peppers do well in the same spot. I have raise thai peppers given to me by a friend from Thailand before, and those plants were about 2 feet tall and put out hundreds of peppers. I still have several bags of them frozen from last year so didn't plant any new ones of hers this year. I can only use them for making hot sauce, as they are too hot for anything else. The hot sauce I eat doesn't have habineros or thai peppers in it, but several other varieties. My boyfriend can't get it hot enough, so I dump in the habs and thai peppers. > > Just a note about tomato hornworms. I had one strip a large cayenne plant completely bare last year in one day. I didn't pull the plant up, just gave it plenty of water and waited to see what would happen. That plant came back so prolificly it was 3 times as big and out produced all of the others. I swore I was going to try hand stripping a plant this year to see what would happen, but I haven't done it yet (just don't have the nerve to waste a good plant). > Gladys, I'm not suprised that the plant that was stripped by the hornworm survived and flourished. I keep answering letters that if the roots are undisturbed the plant usually will
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