Rainy Weekend

Alas this was to be the weekend to plant the bulbs I'd ordered and which have now arrived. It was also going to be the clean out the dead tomato plants, put away the garden statuary, and mulch the new vegetable garden day. We're having a nor'easter so all it does is rain for now. I think I'll go Christmas shopping instead.

Preserving Hot Peppers

I was advised to save hot peppers by flash freezing them or by drying them. I cut the tops off some and removed the seeds. They went into the freezer in a cake pan. Once frozen I will bag them up to use one at a time. Others I threaded onto fishing line and hung in the mechanical room where it is very warm.

I wore my gardening gloves while I did this, but I realize now only the palm was non porous and the tops of my fingers are burning from the hot pepper oils. I don't dare touch my face.

More Tomatoes, Etc.

Had a wonderful arugula salad tonight.
Peas are up!

What Was I Thinking?

This spring I purchased a a tray of six hot peppers. I never stopped to consider what kind of peppers they were. Now the peppers are really producing and I've discovered they are very hot peppers - habanero peppers in fact. I made very spicy chili one night using one green one. I've made hot pepper jelly. Now they are turning red which may mean they are even hotter. I've been trying to give them away and though some of the ones I took to school disappeared there were two left which I threw out.

Aren't they pretty to look at?