🌱 Might briefly dip below freezing early tomorrow morning, and I just got this 🌶️ haul yesterday. The plants are sheltering in place under cover and hopefully most will be ok. Been a great season!
December 15, 2025 at 1:32 AM
🌱 Might briefly dip below freezing early tomorrow morning, and I just got this 🌶️ haul yesterday. The plants are sheltering in place under cover and hopefully most will be ok. Been a great season!
🌱 Went upstate for a couple of days to do fieldwork this week and returned to find my peppers 🌶️ had gone nuclear 🤯
June 6, 2025 at 12:08 AM
🌱 Went upstate for a couple of days to do fieldwork this week and returned to find my peppers 🌶️ had gone nuclear 🤯
🌱Habaneros, Trinidad Scorpions, and a pepper from Venezuela I don't know the name of. Pretty sure all three are the same species (C. chinense), with dramatic differences in heat levels due to human meddling over time. Fresh from the garden 🌶️🔥💥
May 23, 2025 at 8:12 PM
🌱Habaneros, Trinidad Scorpions, and a pepper from Venezuela I don't know the name of. Pretty sure all three are the same species (C. chinense), with dramatic differences in heat levels due to human meddling over time. Fresh from the garden 🌶️🔥💥
🌱 Peppers are starting to pop! 🌶️🔥
May 21, 2025 at 11:59 PM
🌱 Peppers are starting to pop! 🌶️🔥
🌱 First 🌶️ s are in! They don't look like much right now, but they have a horde of siblings still ripening outside. Banana, cayenne, habanero, scorpion, Venezuelan ají, Belizean pico de paloma, and Apache in frame
May 14, 2025 at 1:56 AM
🌱 First 🌶️ s are in! They don't look like much right now, but they have a horde of siblings still ripening outside. Banana, cayenne, habanero, scorpion, Venezuelan ají, Belizean pico de paloma, and Apache in frame
🌱 Trinidad Scorpion. The Queen of Heat. Bought a plant at the market a few years ago and it's gone now, but I've had way better luck growing from seed with these guys than ghost or Carolina Reapers. My only super-hot in the collection this year.
May 2, 2025 at 5:48 PM
🌱 Trinidad Scorpion. The Queen of Heat. Bought a plant at the market a few years ago and it's gone now, but I've had way better luck growing from seed with these guys than ghost or Carolina Reapers. My only super-hot in the collection this year.
🌱 Apache Pepper. I bought plants and had them in hanging planters a few years back. Very pretty, but the peppers are also hot and tasty. Originally thought the plant was shishito when the seeds sprouted last year but nope...
May 2, 2025 at 5:48 PM
🌱 Apache Pepper. I bought plants and had them in hanging planters a few years back. Very pretty, but the peppers are also hot and tasty. Originally thought the plant was shishito when the seeds sprouted last year but nope...
🌱 Venezuelan Ají. Planted a whole pepper given by a friend late in the season last year. No fruit then but hoo boy, lookit 'em now! Can't wait to try them out.
May 2, 2025 at 5:48 PM
🌱 Venezuelan Ají. Planted a whole pepper given by a friend late in the season last year. No fruit then but hoo boy, lookit 'em now! Can't wait to try them out.
🌱 Red Habanero, I think. This came from a purposefully mixed up set of seeds I planted last year. I don't think it included farmers market habs but shouldn't had habs I'd grown in years past up north. No fruit last year so we'll soon see what variety it is. Exciting!
May 2, 2025 at 5:48 PM
🌱 Red Habanero, I think. This came from a purposefully mixed up set of seeds I planted last year. I don't think it included farmers market habs but shouldn't had habs I'd grown in years past up north. No fruit last year so we'll soon see what variety it is. Exciting!
🌱 Banana Pepper. Bought as a mature plant for my partner last year (she likes 🌶️ but doesn't like the heat). Minimal production then and looked kaput but it overwintered and has come back bigger and better than before.
May 2, 2025 at 5:48 PM
🌱 Banana Pepper. Bought as a mature plant for my partner last year (she likes 🌶️ but doesn't like the heat). Minimal production then and looked kaput but it overwintered and has come back bigger and better than before.
🌱 Orange Habanero. I bought a huge bag of peppers at the NOLA farmer's market in '22 and couldn't eat them all before they turned. Did a little viability test on some seeds and they sprouted right in the water. Some of the originals are still with me.
May 2, 2025 at 5:48 PM
🌱 Orange Habanero. I bought a huge bag of peppers at the NOLA farmer's market in '22 and couldn't eat them all before they turned. Did a little viability test on some seeds and they sprouted right in the water. Some of the originals are still with me.
🌱 Belize Pico de Paloma. A few dried peppers made their way back from Belize in '22 and I planted them whole. I think every seed in every pepper sprouted. Most of the plants are still going, except some I gave to friends. They grow semi-wild in Mesoamerica.
May 2, 2025 at 5:48 PM
🌱 Belize Pico de Paloma. A few dried peppers made their way back from Belize in '22 and I planted them whole. I think every seed in every pepper sprouted. Most of the plants are still going, except some I gave to friends. They grow semi-wild in Mesoamerica.
🌱 Call this DTR (Down the River) Thai. Don't really know what it is. Bought some hot peppers in a bag from a little store DTR and planted ones I didn't eat. Have a few of these guys in the "garden" now. The fruits grow upwards.
May 2, 2025 at 5:48 PM
🌱 Call this DTR (Down the River) Thai. Don't really know what it is. Bought some hot peppers in a bag from a little store DTR and planted ones I didn't eat. Have a few of these guys in the "garden" now. The fruits grow upwards.
🌱 Cayenne. Bought this as a mature plant late last season and it produced a lot. Took some hurricane damage but overwintered and is back, baby!
May 2, 2025 at 5:48 PM
🌱 Cayenne. Bought this as a mature plant late last season and it produced a lot. Took some hurricane damage but overwintered and is back, baby!
🌱 Pepper Row at dusk. Hoping to solve a drainage problem and get some more permanent beds put in, but until then, we'll go with what we have. Example 🌶️ in the thread 👇
May 2, 2025 at 5:48 PM
🌱 Pepper Row at dusk. Hoping to solve a drainage problem and get some more permanent beds put in, but until then, we'll go with what we have. Example 🌶️ in the thread 👇
🌱 Trinidad Scorpions 🌶️ 🦂 are starting to come online. Early harvest is looking good, just hope they ripen before the summer heat hits #NOLA #gardening
April 29, 2025 at 2:11 PM
🌱 Trinidad Scorpions 🌶️ 🦂 are starting to come online. Early harvest is looking good, just hope they ripen before the summer heat hits #NOLA #gardening
🌱 The "miracle" pepper. I grew this Belizean pico de paloma from seed 3 years ago. Its pot was infested with ants this winter and I gave up on it during the #NOLA #snowpocalypse. Covered in snow and exposed to 20° F temps for 5 days...and it came back!
April 5, 2025 at 5:08 PM
🌱 The "miracle" pepper. I grew this Belizean pico de paloma from seed 3 years ago. Its pot was infested with ants this winter and I gave up on it during the #NOLA #snowpocalypse. Covered in snow and exposed to 20° F temps for 5 days...and it came back!
Man I was so ready for this
February 19, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Man I was so ready for this
Get greedy with the king cake, get got. Silver lining: I now have a heavenly mandate to try the new bakery I've been driving past #Carnival 🎭 szn
January 29, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Get greedy with the king cake, get got. Silver lining: I now have a heavenly mandate to try the new bakery I've been driving past #Carnival 🎭 szn
🌱 Limbs from neighbors' pecan tree came down on the roof after a storm (luckily no major damage). So I'm borrowing from my Maya farmer friends and burning them for soil amendments for the spring planting (after chopping the traditional way, with a machete).
January 26, 2025 at 8:44 PM
🌱 Limbs from neighbors' pecan tree came down on the roof after a storm (luckily no major damage). So I'm borrowing from my Maya farmer friends and burning them for soil amendments for the spring planting (after chopping the traditional way, with a machete).
Well, one really good thing happened today, anyway
January 21, 2025 at 4:22 AM
Well, one really good thing happened today, anyway
🌱 The annual ritual of making the back porch into a tarped plant lifepod, and sharing the house with our leafy brethren, in advance of a polar vortex has begun
January 20, 2025 at 12:08 AM
🌱 The annual ritual of making the back porch into a tarped plant lifepod, and sharing the house with our leafy brethren, in advance of a polar vortex has begun
Some early year/very late season gardening 🌱 One of my last scorpion peppers 🦂🌶️ showing up in Christmas colors 🎄
January 4, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Some early year/very late season gardening 🌱 One of my last scorpion peppers 🦂🌶️ showing up in Christmas colors 🎄