Hi, hi. I'm Holly Capelle and welcome back to the Kellogg
Garden YouTube Channel. Today, we're talkin' peppers! But,
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from Kellegg Garden. We are growing a ton of peppers in the
garden this year. All from seed I might add, and everything is
looking amazing. I'd love to give you a quick tour of some
of my favorite ones we have growing right now. So, let's
go. This gorgeous pepper is called Jigsaw. It's an
outstanding, colorful, almost tie-dye pattern. It's got
seafoam green and forest green, creams, lavenders, and violets.
It's probably the most beautiful pepper plant I've
ever seen. The plant itself stays short and produces purple
peppers. Which, as you can see here, we're just starting to
get a few. They are spicy. They taste similar to a jalapeno.
These plants are great for containers.
This one's in a container on my porch. I do
have some also in beds. They're good for borders as
well, as you can see, because they're just so eye-catching.
So, if you want to add this one to your garden, I highly
recommend adding it somewhere where there's heavy foot
traffic so that it can be admired as much as possible.
Our Italian pepperoncini peppers are popping. These plants are
so happy. We have them planted over here in an area that gets
quite a bit of filtered shade. Actually, we did this last year
and we couldn't believe how many pepperoncini we had. So, we
thought we try it again this year, and so far same results.
Each plant has a lot. These are an heirloom, and they are
most commonly grown for pickling which is what I use
them for. The peppers get a three to five inches long and
they have a delicious taste. There's only a hint of heat to
them. We grew these from seed as we do with all of our
peppers. They would definitely benefit from the use
of the heat mat. However, I don't have one and don't grow
my peppers with one and don't seem to have a problem, as you
can see. It's important that peppers do get a little bit of
relief from that hottest, hot sun in the late afternoon. So,
planting them here in this area under this pergola where they
do get some filtered sun in the late afternoon has clearly
helped them to continue to thrive.
One of the most exciting crops we're growing in the garden is
this, our Chinese five-color pepper plants. We have a bunch
of them and they are already just stunning. It's a gorgeous
edible ornamental, perfect for containers or borders. We
have several here planted along our outdoor living room area.
Hoping to add some color to this space and I think I've
definitely accomplished that. These plants are just little
bushes and they're prolific as you can see with all of the
peppers on them. The peppers themselves are hot and they
stay little. So, this spicy little rainbow is kinda my
favorite right now. These purple stunners are called
Buena Mulata. They are a chameleon-like pepper. So, hot.
And, they start out purple then they go kind of pinkish, then they
get orange, then brown, and then finally a deep red. They get
about six or seven inches long before you wanna harvest. My
husband and my son ate one the other day and they were pretty
impressed with the amount of heat that these little guy are
packing. We have several of these planted and all of them
are just bursting at the seams. I've actually already harvested
quite a few handfuls of them and the plants just keep
giving. The cayenne pepper plants are finally getting some
color. I love growing cayennes. We use them in our fresh salsa,
but I also try to dry as many as I can, and I hang dry them
all by a string, actually in my window, unlike herbs. And I let
them sit there for a really long time til they're fully
dried and then I jar them up. I'll grind them and use them in
so many dishes throughout the year. So, this is a harvest I
really count on to come through for me and so far, so good.
These peppers are called Leysa. They are thought to be the
sweetest of all the peppers. They have a thick flesh and a
super juicy texture. I especially love them grilled
like for fajitas. Mmm really, really good. They mature to a
red color and they are a stocky plant that's actually very easy
to grow. I have numerous amounts of peppers on each
plant but they are the first plant I've shown some signs of
invasion. Everybody else seems to be bug-free so far, but this
one not as much. So, I'll be keeping my eye on it here to
make sure I don't lose any more fruit to bugs; which is just
really wishful thinking. This is another fun one we're
growing this year. Lilac bell peppers. They're said to be a
mid-size pepper although the first four I've already
harvested. I'd say are on the small side, but the color is
gorge and the taste is delicious. They're crispy and
juicy and sweet. I honestly was just growing them because
they were purple. So, I'm pleasantly surprised that
they're also quite delicious. You can leave them on the plants
and they will rip into red, or you can enjoy them when they're
this color. Who doesn't want to eat a purple pepper?
Another very busy pepper plant in the garden are the banana
peppers. Every banana pepper plant I have has numerous
peppers already on it. As you can see, it ripens from a green
to a yellow. That one there is even getting orange. So, ready
to be harvested. Banana peppers are 100% sweet. There is no
trace of heat on these at all. They can be harvested at any size,
but they're best harvested when they're about six to seven
inches long and that beautiful yellow color. These right here,
ready to go.
Another wildly successful pepper plant in the garden are
the Anaheims. Each of our Anaheim plants are, well, they
look like this. Happy as can be. Anaheim peppers get
pretty large. They get about seven to eight inches before
you want to harvest them, and they go from this beautiful, shiny
green to a red color when they are ripe. They definitely
have a medium heat to it, although I think every once in
a while I come across one that is a little spicy for me, but
my husband and my boys love these peppers. We stuff them.
We grill them. We pickle them. We put them in salsas. We dry
them. Really versatile. Super delicious, and obviously a
happy plant in the garden. These peppers here that I've
already harvested. I'm going to dry and actually you can see
that process has already begun, but I'm going to hang dry
them in a beautiful rainbow cluster on a string and I'll
just hang them in my window. It's not direct sun but it does
get some light, and that'll just help speed up the process.
You of course can dry your peppers in a dehydrator as
well. That works great. I just like to see my pretty
rainbow peppers hanging in my kitchen.
Hey, thanks so much for hanging out with me today. If you like
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even share it as well. I'll see you next time but until then,
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where we share our everyday happenings. Happy gardening!