In total this year, we probably grew twenty seven different varieties peppers
and there are a few basic things that you need to look into
when you going to try and grow peppers.
If you've seen my video about how to make a
self watering container,
you might recognize this beautiful pepper plant.
This is the Bolivian Rainbow hot pepper
and as you can see it still growing in that same wicking container.
Still got water in it,
and
it's fairly easy to see what they call this particular pepper a Rainbow
as it is quite a lovely,
lovely plant to grow.
It's nearing the end of october and
i really should harvest this
but i'm just enjoying the view far too much.
One thing to consider when growing peppers the container size,
These are both bolivian rainbow hot peppers
but as you can see
this one is considerably smaller
than that one.
Both of these plants were planted at exactly the same time,
the primary difference would be the size of the container
followed closely by
the fact that this is in a self watering, or a wicking, container.
This lovely little pepper here is another one of my favorites that we grew
this year.
From that list of twenty seven varieties I found about eight that I really like.
This is called a 'Little Blue'
Here we are in the beginning of november
those peppers are still doing just fine.
They're wonderful hot pepper, and I've harvested this plant probably four times
already this year.
Definitely growing several of these next summer.
Here we have some of the other peppers that I grew this year
these orange ones are
Habanero peppers, deliciously hot.
I managed to grow these from the seeds harvested from a pepper I got to at
quality greens
I think we're all familiar with the standard red chili pepper
again, I bought a pepper at the grocery store, decided to cut it open
plant the seeds, and I was
happy to be able to bring those home.
These are some of those "Little Blue" peppers
wonderfully hot
These are called 'Sweet Red Cherry Peppers'
and they say sweet but they're not.
These are in fact quite hot
And then, some of the largest peppers I grew this year,
these are 'Big Jim Chili Peppers'
and these ...
gonna have to cut the end off of that one,
but these are just amazing peppers. I didn't have a lot of success most of
my big jim's ended up with something very similar to this
but I will try them again next year anyway.
Once you've harvested your peppers,
you're going to need to find a way to store them, to keep you over the winter.
My favorite method, is to use a common dehydrator.
These ones aren't quite ready yet
but i like to dry them to a point where they pretty much just crumble
in between my fingers.
I'm going to put those in back on to dry for a few more hours.
Once our peppers are dried,
I grind them up,
into a nice powder
we put them in small charts according to what type of pepper they are
for example this one is a red chillies and long red cheyenne peppers
whereas this one is ...
the not quite ripe yet green chillies
with some green kung pao hybrid peppers.
Both of these are an incredibly spicy additive
and are a great way to preserve your harvest.
If drying hot peppers isn't necessarily your cup of tea
you could always consider
pickling peppers.
This is an incredibly easy process and I'll put up a video a little bit later
on how to do that yourself.
For these four jars came from one quick batch of pickled peppers
when i was just learning how to do it
and like i say it's incredibly easy if i can do it
you can do it.
Whatever method you used to preserve your harvest,
just make sure you do preserve it and don't let it go to waste.
One of the things you need to consider when you're growing peppers
is the moisture content in the soil.
Making sure you have a proper irrigation system to keep them consistently moist
and not soak them,
or let them dry out.
Is, I think, the key to raising top quality peppers.
If you find your not able to necessarily keep the soil as moist as you might like
to grow a nice sweet bell pepper
you could consider trying to grow hot peppers.
Those smaller peppers don't seem to require as much moiture in order to keep the plant thriving, more church in order to keep quiet
and producing top quality peppers. This has been 'Growing: Peppers' with JT Bear here at
Clean Valley Farms.
Happy gardening,
thanks for watching,
and have yourself a great day!