GrowGirl

Just as the Northern gardeners are preparing to pull out their pepper plants, I am planting my seeds. I had zero sweet peppers last season, as I came back from travel to find that feral chickens had wiped out my crop! This year they have an 80 pound rottweiler mix puppy to deal with! Yesterday I actually had to save a baby chicken from the clutches of his jaws. (He only released the chicken when I dropped the
ENTIRE bag of dog treats in front him, he wasn't giving up his fun for one or two treats...) Of course I quickly scooped back most of the treats once I had chucked the little chicken safely over the fence.

This year I got three packets of seeds from Renee's Garden-her seeds and those of Cook's Garden have always performed for me. So I decided to try Corno di Toro, Pizza My Heart-see this picture from their website shows the marvelous crops I will get LOL


and a new type of habanero called "suave"



this is what the packet says about it. I'll let you know how it turns out!



I planted Renee's Thai Chile Duo last November, and one of the plants is still putting out peppers.

I have to also plant some aji dulce/Trinidad seasoning peppers and some type of hot pepper-haven't decided which ones yet- I have seeds of several types saved. In Caribbean cooking, both seasoning and hot peppers are used in almost every dish, and some dishes require these to bring out the characteristic flavour. I also use these in many European dishes eg lasagna, pasta sauces -I even add them to my pesto to give it a kick.

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