Pepper Plant Garden Nursery Landscaping Guide

Pepper Plant In Your Own 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.

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 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.

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 gardening including Miniature Fruit Trees, Coffee Plant, Front Yard Landscape, Stone Walkway, Backyard Landscaping, Lawn Swing, Big Backyard, Decorate A House, Deck Ideas, Asphalt Paving, Swing Set Backyard, Backyard Fountain, Home Decor Furnishings, Outdoor Decor, Patio Garden, Furniture, Lawn And Garden, Design Landscaping, Lawn Care, The Landscape, The Lawn, Lawn Garden.
Keep a lookout for more of his articles on this website.

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