Our main reason for going to Fordhook’s open house today was to secure a couple of blueberry bushes of different varieties than those we have growing on the hillside. We did that. We also visited the veggie garden, and got to ask Chelsey a few questions about direct sowing for Fall. She’s the veggie product manager.
As it happens, right now is the perfect time to plant lettuce and spinach to get a Fall crop. Radishes, too, but I really do not like radishes, and refuse to waste the space on them.
Chelsey had some interesting things to say about how we (try to) grow our corn, and loved it when I praised the Burpee “Zavory” variety of peppers, as tasting like habañeros, with the capsaicin level of a poblano or Anaheim. That’s what they were shooting for, with the hybridization, and they achieved it. I’m not messing with her. Zavories way up on my list of favorite peppers, along with poblanos, serranos, and almost any variety of habañero.
We grow peppers that have a heat level from almost none, up to Caribbean Reds. Above that level, all it does is heat your poop shute, without tasting good. Yes, I had to say that. 😉
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