Tonight was jalapeño popper night! The jalapeños are huge: Bonnie Mammoths. The only disappointment was that just one of the peppers had some ‘heat’.
Hopefully, I will get some peppers that will make it to ‘red’ & still be in good shape for jelly.
A friend at church gave my mom some habanero pepper jelly about 2 weeks ago, his ‘specialty’ ... painfully hot and that was it for me, no more.
I still have a few Poppers left from my batch...and more on the vine. I grew a ‘Bonnie’ brand too, but it was just the everyday one. No heat problems once the seeds and membranes were removed.
I don’t understand the ‘heat thing’ either! One of Beau’s brothers is a total Heat Freak and always has his own ‘special blend’ of hot spices to add to anything you feed him. I think it’s a mental problem, LOL! Also, he’ll eat ALL the tortilla chips in the house - so I always buy TWO bags if he’s coming over! ;)
I am down to my last jar of Pepper Jelly, so I’ll be making more this season, too. ‘Just a little Heat...and a lot of Heart.’ ;)
Hey! That’d be fun to put on labels for gifting. :)
No rain since 10 days ago. I watered all fruit trees last Friday/Saturday and will again this weekend. It feels like ‘War and rumors of war,’ But, ‘Rain and rumors of rain’ around here. Next ‘chance’ is for tomorrow and Thursday and it might happen as family members are camping this week!
So, today the Kitchen Garden gets a watering, though I fertilized all the peppers and tomatoes, yesterday. If we get no rain, I’ll run the sprinkler on Beau’s sad little Sweet Corn patch so if it dies it’s not ENTIRELY my fault. ;)
I have GOT to convince him that we need another batch of raised beds over there for some decent production! Keeping up with the weeding in an open plot is not how I am going to spend my days when he’s off hunting bears all Summer and Fall. ;)