Re: [chile-heads] ...A word to the wise.....
=Mark (mstevens@exit109.com)
Tue, 08 Jul 1997 20:55:15 -0400
At 04:31 PM 7/8/97 -0400, you wrote:
>Linda Reynolds wrote:
>
>> Hi friends,
>>
>> I was tending my garden last night and was marveling over the plants
>> that
>> had little chiles on them. I saw that my Long Red Cayennes (which
>> are not
>> long or red at this point) had several plants that had a number of
>> peppers
>> on them, around 2-2.5 inches long. Remembering that if you want the
>> plant
>> to produce more peppers, you pick off the first few so that not all
>> the
>> effort goes into them. Soz I pick one. I look at it and see that it
>> is
>> rather small and what to do. NEVER waste a pepper my head sez. And I
>>
>> figured that there would be little if any heat so......I took a BIG
>> chomp.
>> HOLY SCHMUCKENDROPS! That little baby was hot my friends! I was
>> soooo
>> happy. My husband was quite surprised at how much heat they packed as
>>
>> well. I have always loved the flavor of fresh cayennes. I had some
>> on my
>> homemade pizza today, what a delite after having to use my dried ones
>> from
>> last year or hot sauce.
>>
>> So, the moral of the story........still waters run deep, you can't
>> tell a
>> book by it's cover, you only have one chance to make a first
>> impression,
>> treasure every chile you grow!
>>
>> BTW, I threw in a half doz of Garden Salsa peppers. They produced
>> early
>> and the peppers get fairly long but no heat. My anahiem did the
>> same.......maybe all the heat went to the cayennes. Cann't wait til
>> the
>> Jalapenos, serranos, and habs come on.
>>
>> Linda Reynolds
>> "having great weather in upstate NY Judy......80's during the day and
>> this
>> week it's been in the 50's at night.........but the taxes will kill
>> ya"!
>
>CHers,
>
>I had a similar experience in my neighbor's garden yesterday...We share
>his compost pile, and compost, and while dumping a wheelbarrow of
>clippings I spied a red super chile, which I promptly ate in one bite.
>Hiccups ensued and general elevation of body temperature, followed by a
>Bud Light and a smile...What a delightful day it was...My pepper patch
>is a little behind his in production, but the up-side is
>tremendous...The 10 Red Savinas and 10 hab plants are loaded. As are the
>18 other varieties.
>
>Mike Gratton
>
>
>
=Mark
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