Insert choice words (here)! Go ahead and click bigify the source of my pain.
All this came from only 5 plants. See them below at the far end of the bed.
So basically from 2 square feet...
Maybe I should just plant ZERO jalapenos next year, whaddaya think?
Take a deep breath, I'm goin' back out there...
HaHa! Ok, maybe I will rethink my Erin Peppers and Peter Piper!
ReplyDeleteHoly Moly!!! Hope you like it hot!
Good Night that's some amazing jalapenos!!! You're going to start leaving them at people's doors in the middle of the night or have the kids just magically "drop" them on the way to school.
ReplyDeleteThe way peppers grow for you, Erin, I figure if you planted -1 next year, you'll have plenty. What a bunch of peppers!
ReplyDeleteP.S. Please don't go to the trouble of trying to preserve all those. You'll never (maybe in your lifetime) be able to use all of them. Bury them in the garden, throw them in the compost, inflict them on unsuspecting friends or mail them to relatives.
Hole Mole!! Oh wait, wrong kind of pepper. Oh, You should smoke the ripe ones and make your own chipotles. We did that a few years ago- FABULOUS! And, yeah, one plant should do you. Or maybe two... you never know.
ReplyDeleteJudy
Holy Smokes. Thats a LOT of peppers. I'm with Mama Pea on this one. Just keep the ones you will use, and find homes for the others-guilt free!
ReplyDeleteNo. more. jalapenos.
ReplyDeleteand Mama Pea, thank you for that thought - I was feeling very badly that as soon as I starting pulling them, I knew they weren't going to be canned! We use 12 jars max in a year, 1 jar a month for nachos usually - I still have 5 jars from last year!
I am so busy lately the thought of donning gloves, goggles and scorching and skinning them all then canning - it's not gonna happen this year! Maybe if hubby was here to watch the kids, mow the lawn, etc but NO - I HAD TO DO THAT TOO! LOL
GEESH! Um, you better start selling them. Or just GIVE them away. I've never seen so many jalapenos. You better stick to one plant next year. I put my jalapenos in the freezer. But by the looks of that, you'd need one big freezer!
ReplyDeleteKaytee.... um.... there's already 10 lbs in the freezer from last month! Was 13 lbs today... I think they will most likely become trash!
ReplyDeleteWHAT??????!!!! No WAY! I didn't get nearly as many from my five plants. What's your secret???
ReplyDeleteThomas, I don't know - other than maybe being in coastal VA?! Ribbit or Dani said theirs don't get that big either, and they are way further south. I had twice the pictured amount - 10 lbs picked sporadically all summer,then 13 lbs picked today when I ripped them out. I do NOTHING for them, no fertilizer or anything. I've only grown the "giant" kind so I don't know if other types would do as well, although I don't see any reason they wouldn't. so 23 lbs from 5 plants LOL, I admit it is pretty sick!
ReplyDeleteGosh, i'd be doing a few drive-bys in the hispanic part of town and just throwing them in their yards. Hehe, that's alot!
ReplyDeleteCould you see if a local food bank could use them? Hate to see them go to waste. But wow, thats a lot of peppers.
ReplyDeleteThat's how my sweet peppers were last year, all 87 pounds of them. I planted about the same number of plants this year, and have only picked 15 pounds. I think I have 3 jalapenos so far, from three plants :-(
ReplyDeleteI set a bag of fresh picked tomatoes and two small zukes out by the street today, with a "free" sign on them. Didn't get any takers.
Oh man, it's like a kid's story -- some magical beans or something.
ReplyDeleteYep, food bank, Freecycle, something. It's crazy, what you have going on.
Wow Erin, That is a lot of jalapenos! You definitely have a knack from growing those spicy yummy peppers. Make some breaded stuffed poppers with cheese. They are sooo good!
ReplyDeleteI agree, maybe a food bank, or nice neighbors will take them off your hands.
Oh my that is a whole lot of peppers. We only planted two plants this year and got more than enough to pickle several batches. Can't imagine what I would do with all of those...
ReplyDeleteI'll keep them around for tonight, I have a few of the squadron spouses coming over for a project, maybe they will want them! Our food bank only accepts produce from home gardens on Fridays and it's 45 minutes away, so no!
ReplyDeleteEG LOL, wish it wasn't a long holiday weekend or I'd give them to the construction workers that are usually across the street - I KNOW they'd take them! I'll see how they look after being in the fridge over the long weekend!
Send them to relatives!!! We LOVE jalapenos :) We used all the ones you sent us home with last year. Aunt Karla has a really good recipe for jalapeño cheesecake using the red ones... You can make pepper jam, or some chow chow type stuff. Mmmmmm.
ReplyDeleteLol, you crack me up! Maybe just 1 plant would be plenty!
ReplyDeleteWOW.
ReplyDeleteYou could open up your own side-of-the-road farm stand!
good grief gerty... they must love you! I thought I had a lot of the hot yellow hungarian wax I harvested yesterday, but no where near your harvest. Canning peppers, here we come.
ReplyDeleteP.S. your header photo is precious