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The Heat Is On! Making Fresh Homemade Spices For Chili, Taco’s, Pizza and More…
In addition to falling leaves and temperatures – the mountains of hot peppers that appear on our kitchen and dining room table this time of year are another sure sign that fall has arrived. Our hot peppers are the last to be harvested from the garden and landscape each year – as they fully ripen with their final crop just as the first few light frosts of the fall season chill the air. It’s always a little sad to begin the hot pepper harvest – not only because it signals the end of the growing season – but because we begin to lose so much of the color and texture they provide all throughout the landscape. We plant many of our hot pepper crops in hanging baskets and pots, or as groupings of accent plants in our flowerbeds – much like most people do with more traditional annuals such as petunias, begonias or geraniums. Not only are the peppers just as colorful and durable (if not more) than the typical annual flowers – they are edible! (see: Using Ornamental Peppers In The Landscape) So, even though the pepper harvest signals the end of the summer growing season – on the bright side – it also means [...]
Source: http://oldworldgardenfarms.com/2014/10/26/the-heat-is-on-making-fresh-homemade-spices-for-chili-tacos-pizza-and-more/
