These below were the plants I sent for from Thompson and Morgan, the only company I could find that were still accepting orders back then when all garden centres were closed.
They were good plants, grew well and the peppers on them are gi-normous!
A couple have turned red and are now sliced and in the freezer, I think I'll be giving some away - there are so many.
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Great! Good that peppers freeze well too. I used to use loads in Auntie Nancie's {famous} Tomato Relish.
ReplyDeleteI just slice and freeze and hope they stay OK
DeleteI must confess Sue my greenhouse for its first outing hasn’t been hugely successful, apart from the cucumbers. The peppers are chillies (?), the tomatoes I have grown in grow bags two deep. Next year I plan to plant them into the ground with my superb compost from my hot bin. How do you grow yours? Being a total tomatoholic I am keen for a bumper crop.
ReplyDeleteMy follower numbers fall, never grow! Is it something I said!?! Good for you says I!
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I have to grow everything in pots as the greenhouse that I inherited with the house has a concrete slab floor.
DeleteThe best thing about growing is there is always next year to try again
Yes, peppers freeze really well, so instead of giving too many away why not freeze some in slices and then make some tomatoey sauces to put in the freezer with others. Roasted first with onions, tomatoes and garlic they make a wonderful rich sauce. Then you will be self sufficient in another food stuff over the Winter months.
ReplyDeleteI never had that much success with peppers, the polytunnel atmosphere didn't seem to suit the ones that I grew :-(
There's a limit to how many peppers one person needs! 1 of the big peppers sliced covered a whole big baking tray when I open froze them...... they are Huge.
DeleteThe roasted pepper, tomato and onion sauce sounds good although I already have lots of tubs of aubergine/tomato sauce in the freezer
The pepper definitely looks'homemade'! Bet it will taste just as good as a regular shaped one...our carrots however are a mystry to me all tangled up together. x
ReplyDeleteIt's a long time since I grew carrots but I always thought the twisting together was caused by not thinning out and dry weather. We always ate them anyway!
DeleteI've grown peppers for the first time this year and I had no idea how easy they are! How come I never grew them before? I think lockdown had something to do with it. I got the seed from Thompson & Morgan and was rather late sowing them, in a cold greenhouse. They didn't germinate as well as the tomatoes did but grew like mad. It's a variety called Mohawk, which is supposed to be yellow. So far, masses of green fruit. Should I thin them?
ReplyDeleteI slice and freeze peppers, too. So easy to pop them straight from the freezer into a stew or stir fry.
No don't thin them!! they'll ripen in the end, you could give them a feed of tomato feed if they look a bit sad.
DeleteThanks for that useful advice! The peppers and the tomatoes are getting tomato feed once a week. We just need some sun.
DeleteWe're growing peppers for the first time, (I won't mention the pathetic ones I grew many years ago) and my husband is impatient with their progress. I've just shown him the curly one in your picture telling him to be prepared for odd shapes.
ReplyDeleteOnly one curled one so yours will be fine I'm sure
DeleteWe had complete failure with the peppers this year, no fruit at all...
ReplyDeleteOh no, what a shame. Did they flower? If they did it must be due to lack of pollinators
DeleteOur peppers are just turning nicely red in the greenhouse. I shall freeze some, the others I adore chargrilled with salad or pasta.
ReplyDeleteMine will last me months!
DeleteIt looks like at long last we've got 2 aubergines beginning to grow on the one plant we got. I've put it back in the greenhouse.
ReplyDeleteWell, it does look rather curly but what joy to have grown it! I tried peppers years ago and ended up with two the size of a thumbnail. Having some luck with leeks this year though.
ReplyDeletePeppers and I don't seem to get along. I never manage to get good fruit from them and I've given up now.
ReplyDeleteI love your banner photo!
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