Looking really good Allen. I'm thinking I need to move my plant's into some shade. I can't keep them moist enough and ever afternoon they look like they are going to wilt away.
Dave
I personally have never heard that, but here is the way I understand it. Ornamental peppers are grown just for that reason, ornamental purposes. To my knowledge, they are all edible. However some of them are extremely bitter tasting, and extremely hot. Pepper varieties are created by years and year of cross pollination, and re growing until you have something different. If they are bred and grown for decorative purposes, then I would probably not eat them. I have heard some of the ornamentals are very good also. Go figure
If you were to buy a pepper plant in the store labeled as ornamental and not for consumption, I would not eat them. From what I have read, they use a TON of systemic chemicals on them, which in turn makes them inedible.
My dad always told a story of his grandmother having 2 pepper plants on her porch in pots, which he called "chicken heart peppers". Literally, the pepper plant looked identical to a chicken heart.
I found some growing at a customers house. I picked a few, dried them, and planted them for dad. When they produced, they were absolutely nasty tasting
As for the peppers in the picture you were referring to, those are Thai sun peppers. Thats one pepper I recommend every person to have. One plant produces about 1000 peppers per season. Mine produced basically all winter long. The peppers are small, but have a great flavor and a nice medium heat. They make an outstanding pepper vinegar and are great on collard greens
Beans on the left, squash and cukes, one row of okra, more beans on right. Onions didn't fare too well, so I pulled them up and put in another row of half-runners on the right
Got something going on here I am not sure what it is. Any ideas?
Those are leaf miners.
They are teeny teeny tiny moth larvae eating those trails.
They live inside the leaf so pesticides and / or soaps don't usually work.
You can pinch the leaves to crush the worms but usually plucking the leaf is your best bet.
I got that all over my beans. Plus I got black grasshoppers that have cut down two of my tomato's down to nothing.
