My Jalapeno plant was a ‘Bonnie’ brand from Walmart. REALLY pleased with her productivity! First blush was 12 peppers, yesterday I picked 18 and there are still a good dozen on the plant and lots of blooms on.
I’m growing her in a 5-gallon pot with a square cage around her. Just been using Miracle Grow as fertilizer every week or so. Very happy with the results. :)
I’ll make another batch of Poppers for the freezer and then the others will be frozen for later use in Salsa. Since I have so many, I think I’ll make some Pepper Jelly, too. I like the ‘Mrs. Wages’ mix for that. Spread over a block of softened Cream Cheese, it makes the perfect appetizer/snack.
Looks like the promised soaking rain is going to go south of us today, so I’m out to water in a few. :)
The ‘Mammoth’ was a Bonnie plant from Lowe’s. I think I got the other one described as ‘hot pepper’ jalapeno at Lowe’s too, which would make it a Bonnie as well, since that is all they sell. I wish I knew what it was since it’s doing so exceptionally well.
We got almost a half inch of rain around dawn - a surprise. We have company coming tomorrow so I need to mow around the house. With all so wet, I will have to wait until late afternoon which runs the risk of a T-storm blowing up due to the heat of the day.
I was at a Wal-Mart last month and they had plants much reduced to clear them out.
I found a pathetic looking rhododendron for $4 and took it home.
That thing has thrived like no other nursery plant I have bought yet. Within a couple of weeks, it more than doubled in size. My little $4 Wal-Mart plant.
You just never know.
I braved the heat & humidity yesterday to mow from about 1:30 to 3:30, after checking the radar & seeing T-storms popping up to the west. We have company coming at 10 this morning & things around the house and garden were pretty ‘shaggy’ looking. By the time I finished, there were some dark clouds showing up. What we got was a pretty big T-storm with severe storm/flash flood warnings - the severe storm line was fairly thin, but red on radar when it came through and then there was a large area of rain following behind. The end result was an inch of rain in the gauge! For August, that’s really good.