Photo Update: Pepper Harvest

Today we harvested all of the peppers in the Bucke Farm, since each of the plants was in physical stress of one sort of another.

Here's a snapshot of the peppers we collected. We got around 80-100 pepperoncinis, 8 nice Anchos and about 40 Jalapenos.

Some of the peppers weren't quite ready to go, many of the Jalapenos had an unripe flavor and no heat. Others were tasty and plenty hot. Most of the pepperoncinis were green but you can see that a couple of them matured enough to pick up some red color, and they taste delicious, with just a tiny, tiny amount of heat.

I have already pickled and canned about half of the pepperoncinis and will probably can the rest tomorrow evening. They're just barely unripe enough to be useful in any fresh recipes but they'll be great pickled.


After picking all of the peppers, we completely cleaned out the growing area, upgraded the lamp to 600 watts and installed a very large reflector. Currently only two plants are in the growing area right now- a butternut squash and a miniature bell pepper. I need to get busy germinating new seeds so that I can fill up the farm and get the most produce for the energy we're using on lighting.

The plan:

-Babylon Cucumber (trained to climb the trellis)
-Roma Tomato (also trained to climb the trellis)
-Miniature Bell Pepper (already underway)
-Butternut Squash (already underway)
-Ancho Magnifico (these were so nice I have to grow them again)

When I start germinating the new seeds I'll do an update about the procedure I follow for germination.