Worth's 2017 Accidental Garden.

[dmforcier]

Pod shape looks true. They are kinda pale, but I wouldn't worry.

[Redbaron]

Well worth I can't be sure, but the leaves on that pic don't look like the leaves on my ghost pepper. Still pepper leaves but mine are rounder with a little "crinkle". Could be a phenotype rather than a genotype though.

I guess we will both find out in due time.

[dmforcier]

I never really noticed a different leaf on my first few BJs - I still had so much to learn about peppers - but the last few have had that longer, less crinkly leaf that these display. IIRC I got my seeds from fusion_power.

[Worth1]

Being over ran with basil might have to make pesto as much as I hate to.
Decided to pickle the okra.
Cucumbers starting to hit hard and found more melons growing.
Worth

[Gardeneer]

Worth, do you mind sharing your pickling okra recipe ?

I have tones of basil and have already made some pesto.
I am tired of picking/eating/giving away cucumbers. I let them expire. I have some huge ones for seed production.
My melons are almost full size and the Sugar Babies are already bigger than I had imagined.
Okras are pumping. Corns expired, beans growing at the shade of corm bushes. No very good.

[Worth1]

Originally Posted by Gardeneer

Worth, do you mind sharing your pickling okra recipe ?

I have tones of basil and have already made some pesto.
I am tired of picking/eating/giving away cucumbers. I let them expire. I have some huge ones for seed production.
My melons are almost full size and the Sugar Babies are already bigger than I had imagined.
Okras are pumping. Corns expired, beans growing at the shade of corm bushes. No very good.

1:1 ratio of white 5% vinegar to water and salt to taste spice to taste and hot peppers dill and garlic.
I get the vinegar salt and water boiling hot and pour into jars and put the lid on to seal.
I will not process them in a hot water bath for ten minutes like it says.
It would cook the okra, my choice and I refrigerate them anyway.

Somewhere around here there is a lost cucumber.
I was talking on the phone and I dont have any idea where I put it and it is driving me nuts.
Worth

[Gardeneer]

Thanks for the recipe and the method, Wort.

1:1 (50/50) ration of vinegar/water is safe as its pH is way low ( under 3 ) to preserve anything. And when you pour it boiling , it will kill any existing bacteria. I have done this with hot peppers for years. I have a couple of small jars that are 3 to 8 years old. But never done it with okra.
Ok, I am all set to pickle some okra.

PS: Hope you found the lost cucumber.

[Worth1]

I hope it isn't too acidic for you and no, no sign of the cucumber.

Worth

[jillian]

Smoky ate it

[Worth1]

Originally Posted by jillian

Smoky ate it

I asked her, she said she hasn't seen hide nor hair of it.
Worth

[dmforcier]

Catties don't eat no rabbit food. So says Minnie. Heck, they barely condescend to eat special gourmet cat foods.

No, I'm convinced it was rogue beavers.




I mean, just look at the teeth!

[imp]

Originally Posted by dmforcier

Catties don't eat no rabbit food. So says Minnie. Heck, they barely condescend to eat special gourmet cat foods.

No, I'm convinced it was rogue beavers.




I mean, just look at the teeth!

Beg to differ - Lula, the Resident Rotten Ruler Of All, adores Tomato sauce and spaghetti, and the sauce more than the noodles. Rob would give in to her fussing as a young one and feed her some of whatever he was eating, and she would swat at his cheek or chin ( no claws but the girl has a mean left hook) if he did not share tomato sauce quickly enough to suit her!

I am smarter about the tomato sauce thing than my Dearly Departed One ( a bit of humour) and do not get swatted by the Dread Paw of Destruction, because I KNOW to just give her some right away before I sit down to eat.

[dmforcier]

Oh, I've had catties that wanted whatever you were eating, but it was like a non-compulsory religious tithe - symbolic. But a whole cucumber?

I'm sticking with the beavers.

[imp]

No, Lula doesn't want much of nothing we, or now I, eat other than tomato sauced items and shrimp, maybe some fish to pick at IF I shred it nicely. Oh yes, the Salt "n' Pepper shrimp from the Chinese place, but only the heads.

Yes, a cucumber was probably just hidden for amusement.

[Worth1]

The case of the missing cucumber has been solved.
It was in the freezer.
The tubs had a nice 6 inch water table in them last night.
Today after work they had been sucked dry.

Worth