First harvest from my bucket garden hot peppers. Sweet banana, jalapeno and a cowhorn I probably picked too soon. Also have hot banana and Tabasco that haven't started producing yet. Nothing better for summer lunch than peppers, cucumbers and onions sliced up in some vinegar!😋 it can even make a baloney sammitch something special, if you can find any good baloney. Most I find don't have any flavor like I remember.

Harbor Freight buckets come in handy esp when you get one free! and you don't feel bad about drilling drainage holes in them!

 

Cool harvest. My pepper plants are starting to shut down for the summer (it’s gonna hit 110 this weekend). Can’t do buckets / raised beds here as the soil would get hot enough to kill the roots.

 

The jalapeno's don't look like you picked them too soon. They look like the size when I usually pick them out of my garden. When they're small like that, they have alot more sweetness to go with the backburn. In my opinion, when you let them get too big (4-5 inches) they loose alot of their flavor.

 

I envy you pepper guys. They beat me like Ike beat Tina, so I have to stay away from them.

 

It was the cowhorn I think I picked too soon. I've never grown those and truthfully had never heard of them until I saw them at Lowe's this year. Just had to try them!

What I've read is that, picked green, they taste like a green bell pepper with a little heat. Let them ripen to red and the flavor becomes complex with sweet and hot notes.

Peppers are growing tall enough I need to cage or stake them. Last year they produced on into late September so I had table seasoning all summer. Hot pepper rings in a half-pint jar of vinegar is a fine accompaniment to pinto beans, cabbage, or about any other vegetable.

 

I love my peppers!

If you're not sweating, you're not eating!

Between the jalapenos and the habaneros in my garden, I usually have enough to eat through the summer and fall, give some to my neighbors and vacuum seal the rest and put them freezer for the winter.