Re: [CH] El Yucateco Chipotle Salsa/Scouting Report Request
peg wolfe (sundevilpeg@hotmail.com)
Sun, 06 Aug 2000 17:17:55 CDT
Carp -
Same deal up here with the tomatoes. My mammoth Green Zebra plant just
commenced setting fruit this very weekend, and it's been out since the first
week in May. Talk about a watched pot never boiling - maybe I should avert
my eyes when I water it, which is often, even with the coolish, damp summer
we've had here - it's over seven feet high now. Yow. Time to top it off,
wouldn't you say?
BTW, have found over the past couple of years that both habs and Caribbean
Reds are beautifully suited to container growing; this year's brainstorm was
to put the serranos in window boxes, which has been a rousing success.
Since they are bearing so heavily, I intend to let a substantial number
ripen on the plants for the decorative value; if our Winter here in NE
Illinois is as mild as was the last, voila, instant Xmas decor! ;o)
Happy growing to one and all,
Peg W., the Wrigleyville Chile Maven
>From: danceswithcarp <dcombs@bloomington.in.us>
>To: "peg wolfe" <sundevilpeg@hotmail.com>, chile-heads@globalgarden.com
>Subject: Re: [CH] El Yucateco Chipotle Salsa/Scouting Report Request
>Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2000 15:08:08 -0500
>
>At 02:16 PM 8/4/00 -0500, peg wolfe wrote:
>
>
>>Greetings from Chicago, all, where it's been a dandy Summer for
>>chile-growing...
>
>South Central Indy-anna is having a bumper year in everything but
>tomatoes--too cloudy to have many ripe ones. But the chiles? We didn't
>get any ripe ones to enter in the county fair but in the last two days I've
>picked about 5 gallons of almost-ripe Red Savina and Habs from the
>garden. I got another 2 gallons or so of red cayennes, cowhorns and thai
>dragons. And that heirloom pumpkin patch I put out is going berserk; the
>danged thing is overrunning the potatoes, onions, cucumbers and is almost
>to the chiles. I've got baby pumpkins as big as basketballs already with
>2.5 months left to grow.
>
>Cucumbers? Man, oh, man. The things are out of contorl. The picklers are
>*huge*; maybe 10 inches and way too big to put a hand around. We've been
>giving them out all over and most people say they don't want anymore. Last
>night Pat suggested, seriously, that we walk up the street knocking on
>doors to see if we can give them away. I suggested doing drive-by
>cucumberings; just leaving baskets on doorsteps.
>
>The cold pickle recipes everyone sent me got homogenized into one recipe
>and I threw a few--maybe3 or 4--Red Savinas into each 3 gallon
>crock. Wow. They're not quite Clausens, but they are close and are
>excellent pickles. With more fire, of course. Thanks to everyone for the
>help on that.
>
>This weekend we'll start dehydrating habs for the next batch of The
>Brew. The cycle runs Xmas to Xmas.
>
>
>carpo
>
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