Unless you count the teaspoon of onion we got from our garden a week before this photo was taken, Joel is holding our first produce! (this was taken June 13th, I got a bit behind!)
This is a "snack pepper", that only has seeds at the top, so that you can eat the majority of the pepper in one bite! Joel and I agreed that it tasted a bit like a pea-pod. The picture on the plant label showed a red "snack-pepper", but we couldn't wait to let this turn red! We have additional flowers on the plant and maybe the start of another pepper, but it is going to be awhile before we have another one to eat. (the plant is only the size of a small soccer ball at this point in time!)
UPDATE: as of today, we have flowers on our pea, pepper, zucchini, cucumber and tomato plants...we have MANY MANY green tomatoes of all varieties, just waiting to ripen....so far only Anna can't resist those! (oh - the memories - none of my 3 year olds could resist those fun little green balls!)
YUM YUM YUM! We have only had one bell pepper so far and one jalapeño. I'm hoping for tons of jalapeños so I can pickle them.
ReplyDeleteOur tomatoes are doing great though and it looks like we will have an abundant crop of them. Not enough to can a gazillion jars of salsa like our friend KH. But then, my entire garden is what she calls a row in hers. :-)