Pepper Plant Garden Nursery Landscaping Guide
Pepper Plant In Your Vegetable Garden
By Joel F Morningstar
Pepper plant is a good addition to your fruit and vegetable garden.
You can grow a variety of peppers including green bell and Jalapeno
peppers.
You can then include the peppers in your salads and make pickles
in jars and eat them all year round. If you have too many jars,
you can give some of them as gifts to your friends and family.
Just like we do. We like to eat the produce we grow in our vegetable
garden.
Fresh Produce From A Large Vegetable Garden
My wife and I have a large vegetable garden. We grow a wide assortment
of vegetables as well as tomatoes. We would have plenty of vegetables
to eat fresh and also we would freeze green beans, corn and peas.
I would can tomatoes, dill pickles and a variety of jelly and
jam.
One year my sister-in-law gave me a salsa recipe that was suppose
to be very good. That year I planted celery, green bell peppers
and one jalapeno pepper plant so that I would get all the ingredients
from the garden.
We had never tried to raise peppers before. I made a review of
my options and did not think we had a long enough growing season,
but we soon found out that we did.
Green Bell Peppers
We planted eight of the bell pepper plant. They came in four
packs so we bought two packs. We put them out into the garden
at the very end of May. By the middle of August we had so many
bell peppers that we did not know what to do with them.
Eight Pint Jars Of Salsa
I looked up the salsa recipe that my sister–in–law
gave me. The recipe made eight pint jars of salsa and the recipe
called for two jalapeno peppers. I realized that we would not
have had to plant the pepper plant we could have purchased two
jalapenos.
We decided that we would put the peppers into the dill pickles
we were going to make. I had never worked with jalapeno peppers
before and did not realize that the oil from the peppers will
burn your skin.
Safeguard Your Skin Against Jalapeno Peppers
By the time I was done cleaning and cutting the peppers the tips
of my fingers were all red and they burned. I ran them under cold
water and tried rubbing some ointment on them. The burn improved
a little bit.
I looked up peppers in a canning book. When I got to the section
the title read in large bold letters, do not handle peppers with
bare skin. When my wife came home from work I showed her the tips
of my fingers as well as the caution sign.
I told her that I could not believe that we were going to ingest
a food that you are warned not to touch with your bare skin.
Salsa As Gifts
The salsa did turn out to be very good. We have extra tomatoes
and peppers so we canned another double batch.
We gave jars of the salsa as gifts and also used it as a condiment
at home. Two peppers per batch was plenty of heat. The next year
we did not plant the jalapeno pepper plant, borrowed two from
the neighbor’s plant.
I made sure I handled the Jalapeno peppers with appropriate garden
gloves to protect my skin from any burns from the oil of the peppers.
Once burned, never burned again. I learned my lesson!
About the Author:
Joel F Morningstar has written a number of articles on nursery, gardening, backyard ideas and landscaping,
including
Fast Growing Trees,
Miniature Fruit Trees,
Weed Prevention,
Lawn And Garden,
Patio Garden,
Front Yard Landscape,
Big Backyard,
Lawn Swing,
Stone Walkway,
Deck Ideas,
Swing Set Backyard.
Keep a lookout for more of his articles on this website.
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