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Yeppers Peppers

 

I am growing a small garden this year in the raised beds beside my house. This is the first real garden I have put in since moving to the area over ten years ago. It is mostly herbs, with several varieties of tomato, eggplant, squash and strawberries.

I bought a few tiny pepper starts a couple weeks ago. They came from a vendor at the farmers market who sells over ninety varieties. I never knew there were so many! It was a tough decision, but I brought home three Anchos (for making chile rellenos), one decorative Bolivian Rainbow and one Black Hungarian (just to see what it tastes like).

The pepper plants have been nurtured ever so carefully indoors, according to the instructions that came with them. Now that it is in the 60's at night, it is finally time to bring the peppers outside. The weather just hasn't been cooperating this year. It has been rainy, cloudy and unseasonably cool all spring. These peppers need some warm soil and hot weather so they will produce fruit that will ripen by the end of the growing season. Now that summer is here and it is getting a bit warmer, I am hopeful for a bountiful harvest.

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