Picking Peppers

This almost looks like it's Christmas--there's a lot of red and green going on! Actually, it's my Black Hungarian Peppers that have ripened and need to be picked. Once harvested, I will remove the seeds, and then slice the peppers, so it can all be dried. The seeds go back to my son, Bryce, who will give me other seeds to grow out next year. The dried peppers themselves will be ground into a powder and I will have some nice hot Hungarian Paprika!

Harvesting . . .

My husband took really good care of my garden and I was able to harvest several eggplants, sweet peppers, and a couple of funny looking squash. I will harvest the hot peppers in a couple of days. I know that there are a bunch of tomatoes that are hiding, but they will soon be made into pizza sauce.

You may have noticed that some of my pictures have a brown smudge in the upper left corner. I am not sure why it is there as my camera is pretty new. I will try to find out what the problem is.

Black Hungarian Pepper

These pictures show one of my Black Hungarian Peppers in bloom. The flowers are purple with white strips. The leaf and flower stems are nearly black, and it is striking against the green leaves. Who said that vegetables don't belong in the flower bed?!? Some vegetables would be a spotlight among the flowers! These peppers grow to look similar to a banana pepper. They grow out green, turn black for quite a while, and then turn orange, then red. These dried and ground red peppers will make Hungarian Paprika.