let's see your veggie garden {pics}

[skychaser]

Back on topic (mostly) the peppers are happy. Just enough to make a jar of Tabasco.

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How many months does it take your tobasco's to reach maturity? Mine take 8-9 months from seed to get to picking size and get ripe. I don't know what strain I have. The seeds were given to me. Maybe I need a different strain. The only other pepper I have that takes that long is Reapers. The other two look like Traveler Jalapeno. Did I guess right?

 

[GreenDragon]

Yes, they are jalapeños. I plant seedlings from Lowe’s in April, and start harvesting in August. The hotter and dryer the summer the quicker they mature.

 

[plantdude]

Yes, they are jalapeños. I plant seedlings from Lowe’s in April, and start harvesting in August. The hotter and dryer the summer the quicker they mature.

@GreenDragon, the smaller peppers almost look more like a Serrano type, are they?

I had to play with my food... @skychaser my Cayenne peppers (Cayenne peppers are what usually goes into tabasco brand hot sauce) usually mature in about 5 months from seed, but mine tend to be smaller and lack the heat most cayenne peppers should have (the mouth in the pic is a small not fully ripe cayenne). They should be higher in scoville units than jalapeños but mine turn out to be wusses and much more mild than the jalapeños I grow. Probably the strain I have - been growing them about 20+ years. My jalapeños generally feel a lot more spicy to me than store bought jalapeños. Not sure if it's the variety or growing conditions.
The nose and eyes are Serrano tampiquenos, which are one of my favorites. I've also been propagating those for over 20+ years now. They have the heat of a regular jalapeño and a nice sweet taste when ripe. On mild winters I've actually had some survive until spring when heavily mulched and I usually dig a few plants up to bring indoors to get me through a good portion of winter and replant them in the garden in spring (if the cat does't kill them anyway). I'm usually looking at about 5 months from seed (early March indoors) to fruit (late June to July) for the serranos and jalapeños.

 

[deluxestogie]

Tabasco = Capsicum frutescens
Cayenne = Capsicum annuum

Tabasco Sauce History and Lore

The patent for Tabasco sauce was granted to Edmund McIlhenny in 1870. Learn about this ubiquitous hot sauce, a condiment we couldn't do without.

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Tabasco pepper - Wikipedia

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Cayenne pepper - Wikipedia

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Bob

 

[GreenDragon]

Definitely Tabasco



Okra is done


Pumpkins are up

 

[plantdude]

Definitely Tabasco
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Okra is done
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Pumpkins are up


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You are right, I stand corrected. For some reason I was thinking they used cayenne for the original Tabasco sauce. I guess the name should have given it away
I do see they offer a cayenne garlic Tabasco sauce online, I may have to give that a try.

 

[skychaser]

If you think there are a lot of different tobaccos to grow, try growing all the known peppers. I have 20 types of peppers growing this year.

List of Capsicum cultivars - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

"There are perhaps fifty thousand Capsicum cultivars grown worldwide.[1] The USDA-ARS GRIN seed collection contains 6,200 Capsicum accessions alone, including 4,000 Capsicum annuum accessions."

 

[GreenDragon]

Saw this guy when I went to check on the garden this morning. He protected me from the mosquitoes.

 

[deluxestogie]

He protected me from the mosquitoes.

He looks well fed.

Bob

 

[Oldfella]

He looks well fed.

Bob

Pretty
Oldfella

 

[deluxestogie]

I misspoke when I said I have no Black Walnut crop for 2020. My four Black Walnut trees did their best under the circumstances. Here is the whole crop.

Bob

 

[ChinaVoodoo]

I misspoke when I said I have no Black Walnut crop for 2020. My four Black Walnut trees did their best under the circumstances. Here is the whole crop.

Bob

Those things have such a peculiar smell. We don't have them here. Only ever seen them in Cambridge Ontario. Maybe you're used to them.

 

[plantdude]

I misspoke when I said I have no Black Walnut crop for 2020. My four Black Walnut trees did their best under the circumstances. Here is the whole crop.

Bob

Shelling will be easy this year anyway...

 

[deluxestogie]

I remove the thick husk by driving over Black Walnuts spread on my driveway. Then, after the rock-hard nut shells have dried well, I sit on my porch with a claw hammer, trying to crack them. (No English walnuts here.) Each Black Walnut is more shell than nut meat. After a lot of brutal hammering, I collect the pieces of shell, and work each of them with a small nut pick, to pry the nut meat free of each shell fragment.

I don't just eat Black Walnuts like other nuts. They are way too potent. I further mince the nut meats, place them in a freezer Ziploc bag, and freeze them for sprinkling (sparingly!) onto ice cream or occasionally on a casserole.

But they are nutritious and free and untreated with any chemicals.

Bob

 

[tullius]

Bob

That's the smell of late summer, when mom kicked us out of the house to get us out of her hair, and we played war in the woods: black walnuts were our M67's. They also got utilized as baseballs, brother beaners, heavy apparatus movers, mortar rounds out of potato guns, and after a lot of work, food.

Hey, how come this black stuff won't wash off?

Good memories.

 

[deluxestogie]

Remove Black Walnut Stain • Chandler Orchards

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Actually, it's damn difficult.

Bob

 

[plantdude]

I remove the thick husk by driving over Black Walnuts spread on my driveway. Then, after the rock-hard nut shells have dried well, I sit on my porch with a claw hammer, trying to crack them. (No English walnuts here.) Each Black Walnut is more shell than nut meat. After a lot of brutal hammering, I collect the pieces of shell, and work each of them with a small nut pick, to pry the nut meat free of each shell fragment.

I don't just eat Black Walnuts like other nuts. They are way too potent. I further mince the nut meats, place them in a freezer Ziploc bag, and freeze them for sprinkling (sparingly!) onto ice cream or occasionally on a casserole.

But they are nutritious and free and untreated with any chemicals.

Bob

One walnut is going to take some careful driving with the Buick Place, measure, not too much, side of the tire, reverse, forward, reverse, forward, reverse... That better be worth it

The true beauty of black walnut is in the wood.

 

[GreenDragon]

That's the smell of late summer, when mom kicked us out of the house to get us out of her hair, and we played war in the woods: black walnuts were our M67's. They also got utilized as baseballs, brother beaners, heavy apparatus movers, mortar rounds out of potato guns, and after a lot of work, food.

Hey, how come this black stuff won't wash off?

Good memories.

Had a couple of these in my backyard growing up. Used to use the green flesh surrounding the nut by rubbing it on scratched wood furniture. Makes a great all purpose stain to conceal "distress marks" LOL.

 

[Brown Thumb]

Some taters, pulled all the yucons.
The reds and purple are not ready yet but a hornworm decided to chow two of them down to nothing so I went burrowing.

 

[deluxestogie]

White potato in the corner pocket.

Bob