Peppers
Hot and Sweet Peppers: how to grow and storage recipes
Favorite STORAGE recipe #1 is to slice, dice, or grind them and pour boiling vinegar on top of our peppers and then refrigerate. Yes, the peppers DO change color after pouring boiling vinegar on them as shown below.
If HEAT of hot peppers bothers you, remove the seeds first. USE gloves or a plastic bag over your hands when working with HOT PEPPERS. You only need to forget once and you will never forget again. Sensitive places you touch on your body will burn like crazy if you don't use protection.
Favorite STORAGE recipe #2 is to slice, dice, or grind them and freeze them. Just place in a freezer bag, remove air from bag, and freeze. If you fill the bag thinly with them the frozen peppers can just be snapped off as you need them.
How to grow Peppers. We start ours from seed, that we saved from a few perfect peppers, in seedling pots that are 2x2x2 using our favorite homemade recipe for soil. Seedlings to not require fertilizer until AFTER their first true leaves develop and even then they need a diluted fertilizer. All of their nutrient needs are in the actual seed before that time. Seeds truly are a miracle.
Why start seedlings in pots? Root knot nematodes and fungal diseases. Give the seedlings half a chance by allowing their childhood to be safe and secure before throwing them out into the real world.
Consider growing in pots. Seedlings are transplanted at ABOUT 6 inches tall. Our peppers are grown in pots; 3-4 plants per a 7-gallon pot. One part composted rabbit manure and one part potting soil mix. Plant them as deep as their seedling leaves. We bring them inside if there is a frost and growing in a pot keeps the root knot nematodes under control. To ensure we always have a supply of them on hand, a new pot of peppers is started every 3-6 months.
Favorite STORAGE recipe #1 is to slice, dice, or grind them and pour boiling vinegar on top of our peppers and then refrigerate. Yes, the peppers DO change color after pouring boiling vinegar on them as shown below.
If HEAT of hot peppers bothers you, remove the seeds first. USE gloves or a plastic bag over your hands when working with HOT PEPPERS. You only need to forget once and you will never forget again. Sensitive places you touch on your body will burn like crazy if you don't use protection.
Favorite STORAGE recipe #2 is to slice, dice, or grind them and freeze them. Just place in a freezer bag, remove air from bag, and freeze. If you fill the bag thinly with them the frozen peppers can just be snapped off as you need them.
How to grow Peppers. We start ours from seed, that we saved from a few perfect peppers, in seedling pots that are 2x2x2 using our favorite homemade recipe for soil. Seedlings to not require fertilizer until AFTER their first true leaves develop and even then they need a diluted fertilizer. All of their nutrient needs are in the actual seed before that time. Seeds truly are a miracle.
Why start seedlings in pots? Root knot nematodes and fungal diseases. Give the seedlings half a chance by allowing their childhood to be safe and secure before throwing them out into the real world.
Consider growing in pots. Seedlings are transplanted at ABOUT 6 inches tall. Our peppers are grown in pots; 3-4 plants per a 7-gallon pot. One part composted rabbit manure and one part potting soil mix. Plant them as deep as their seedling leaves. We bring them inside if there is a frost and growing in a pot keeps the root knot nematodes under control. To ensure we always have a supply of them on hand, a new pot of peppers is started every 3-6 months.
