Posted on 12/13/2013 12:25:11 PM PST by greeneyes
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“DO NOT USE NO HEAT JAPAPENOS”
I should have phrased that differently. Don’t eat them to cure a cold/flu, BUT EAT THEM ALL THE TIME BECAUSE THEY TASTE GREAT!
Garlic! One of the ingredients in nearly everything!
I have fresh ghost peppers. I would not think of biting into one of those. I have a friend that said he could not find peppers hot enough any more. I sent him home with a handfull. Later I asked how they were. Oh boy, he said he sliced and diced one and put it over some rice and gravy. It set him on fire, turning red, sweating, trouble breathing. I think he liked it. His wife said no more ghost peppers. I warned him not to try it like that, just eat a tiny bit first. Some people just don’t listen.
-Or eat one of rightly’s ghost peppers and be cured immediately on eating it-
yeah, death cures most ailments.
I apologize: I’m an herbal imbecile. I just snorkle the stuff down when I have a cold. Have at it and please keep us informed of the enhancements!
Ghost peppers are reported to be incredibly hot. I watched an episode of “Heat Seekers” recently, and the physical response to eating them was heavy sweating, nausea, and crying. I’ve never seen anything like it.
LOL!
WOW! THanks for the information, Marcella! I had heard of Scoville Units before, but had no idea what they were or what they were for!
Darlin and I are thinking about trying a kicked up pepper-flake or cayenne laced soup, even though we seem not to be having a cold right now!
Gonna make some with that dash of vinegar and see how that goes. Maybe try the sweet next time!
Go to Youtube and search ghost peppers. They make habaneros
So, I am searching for perennial flowers that attract bees and butterflies. I have that one Verbena and one hummingbird plant but the h plant isn't looking good.
I'm on a page of flowers that attract those critters plus the flowers can be eaten, and I found this one that says deer can't stand it. I thought that might be worth knowing to some of you who have deer eating your stuff. It is lavender and I don't know if this is a special kind of lavender but here is the info. You can also buy the seeds at this website. I'll post it if anyone is interested. It is outside my zone for growing. 100 seeds for $2.50:
“Lavender Hyssop Agastache foeniculum
Attractive honey plant; produces abundant nectar which yields a light fragrant honey.
Strongly anise-scented, it is delightful for tea or as culinary seasoning.
Deer cannot stand the aromatic foliage.Beautiful, fragrant purple flowers growing 12-36” tall. Perennial. Zone 4-7.”
make habaneros seem mild.
Sorry,, still groggy.
I was a bit confused, but I thought it was just me. :)
I’d like to get rid of some of my bees. Bees, wasps and hornets seem to find me oddly attractive, and our landscape is full of them.
What I’m doing is research so I’ll know which perennial flowers do best at attracting bees/butterflies. I’ve said before I don’t know jack about flowers so I have to learn this. I’ll end up with a list of perennial ones that attract well and are for this grow zone, 8, then hope Lowes has some of the actual flower plants on the list when they start selling plants in early spring.
I found out some time ago, that bees, wasps, mosquitoes, etc., can smell sugar in your skin and they go after people who have it close to the surface of their skin. Mosquitos wouldn’t touch my husband outside, but they would chew me to death. My skin is very thin, blood vessels can easily be seen, so I guess I smell sweet to them. Husband’s skin was like leather.
In the spring/summer I can’t do any work out there starting in the late afternoon or they would eat me up. This is Texas you know, and since we grow everything bigger, so are the mosquitoes monsters.
If it’s good for zones 4-7 it might not be completely happy in your area. To hot/humid might not be a great thing for it.
My climate isn’t too different from yours in the summer and the cilantro blooms and dill blooms are favorites of the bees. Also strawberry blooms. But the one thing I’ve ever grown that they just went NUTS over was stevia. When my stevia bloomed I had to wait till NIGHT TIME to go out to that part of the yard. It was like a hitchcock movie, only with bees.
Lantana is great for butterflies. I have four lantanas that are a huge mass of growth near the road. Always lots of butterflies there in butterfly season.
Shrimp plant attracts hummers and butterflies, plus has an interesting, unique flower that blooms all through the warm weather till frost. I’ll try to find my pictures to post.
It’s Lantana of which I have one plant. I do want to get another of those since it has bloomed all the time since I got it about 3 or 4 months ago and grow large even though it’s in a container.
I'm definitely getting that. I wonder if Lowes carries that, rightly have you ever seen it at Lowes?
It’s weird, because I rarely have any sugar. My blood vessels are mostly invisible, and I am not sweet. :)
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