Posted on 06/05/2021 5:12:14 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
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Shishito peppers are the BEST, my favorite pepper. We grew 3 bushes last year and we were swimming in them.
Very interesting and I thought they were lavender plants LOL
“My tomato plants started to blossom when the plants were super short which meant the fruit was going to be low to the ground where rodents could easily eat them.”
Good deal, makes sense! I keep the limbs 10-12” inches is to minimize any rain water splashing up on the leaves which then start to have problems with fungal disease.
Looking forward to trying them!
Did you live in Iowa when you worked for Seed Savers? How did you like it?
Your Roses, do you have any problems with voles eating the roots?
Roses: No vole problems so far - the roses are in raised beds.
Seed Savers - we had a store on Monroe Street in Madison, WI. I worked there for 8 years. When Kent & Diane divorced, we closed the store and moved all operations back to the farm at Decorah, IA. I was offered a job there, but my kids were still in HS, so I wasn’t interested in taking it and moving us all to Iowa. I now, however, live less than an hour from The Mighty Mississippi and Iowa. ;)
I did get to set up the new Visitor Center and Gift Shop at the farm. That was a lot of fun. Lillian Goldman (of the Goldman-Sacks Empire!) gave us $100K in her will, so we built the Visitor Center and other educational things, being a non-profit and all.
I’m still in touch with Diane, and her son, Aaron (who I worked for) lives a stone’s throw from me on his farm where he raises the White Park cattle for beef, and to keep the species going, and has his own seed company, now.
Shameless plugs:
They have an amazing flavor. We have grown them 6 or 7 years now. I clean out all the seeds and chop, saute lightly in olive oil for about a minute and then freeze in small bags, enough to add to a dish. Fabulous in an omelet. Eaten green not red. The best recipe I have seen and tried 3 times was a marinated flank steak, grilled, sliced thin and put over salad greens and blistered shishito peppers on the grill. It was a chefs recipe, I’ll look for it.
https://www.foodandwine.com/recipes/grilled-skirt-steak-shishitos-and-charred-lemon
I did not have mint or watercress. And I dislike blue cheese so I used Jarlsberg. Blistering the peppers took some finess but I have a grill wok so it worked out well, they don’t take much time at all.
So beautiful!
Great colors!
I love petunias in baskets and planters, have lots of them.
Thank you!
Thanks so much!
I have about 75 tomato plants.
I understand the high heat pollination issue from 2 years ago when I had peper plants suspended in the roof of my greenhouse.
The tips go over 100 even when the vents were popped open and it sterilizes the pollen.
as a kid, we thought Velvetta was the "cheap" or "poor" cheese...now, I can't believe its about $7 bucks....
we had unbelievably hot weather 3 days ago and now our nights are cool back at night...no rain whatsoever for a long time....
I remember us wondering if we had crossed paths there before we met elsewhere. ;)
Wait a minute - you weren’t one of ‘those people’ that would bring coffee and danish into my store, sit their butts down in our comfy seats and get crumbs, frosting and coffee all over my books now, were you?
LOL! No, I would’ve remembered THAT! ;)
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