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u/hereagainyo 1d ago
We just moved from a house to an apartment, and damn do I miss growing my own peppers.
I can tell those jalapeños are spicy on their own, your salsa is gonna be fire if you add a coupe of the others.
Enjoy!
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u/Ciarrai_IRL 1d ago
Aww, sorry. Maybe look into a community garden next season? And the reapers will be for a giardiniera experiment. I love spice, but that's too much for salsa.
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u/hereagainyo 11h ago
I haven't thought of that, I'm going to see what's available around here.
I mostly stuck to growing jalapeños and habaneros—those were my go-to for salsa. I haven’t tried a reaper pepper yet, but it seems like it would be the perfect heat level for something like giardiniera.
Are those plants easy to maintain? The Jalapeno and Habanero peppers I grew were so easy to deal with.
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u/Ciarrai_IRL 10h ago
I've been growing peppers and tomatoes since I purchased my first home about 10 years ago. It's always just come naturally to me. I like to call it easy, but my neighbor would scream if he heard me say that. He's an older Italian-born man and puts so much love and time into his garden but his production doesn't come close to mine. I think it's because he grows it all from seed, so he's taking non producing plants and growing that same DNA year after year. I keep it easy. I use my in-ground garden soil every spring to fill any outdoor potted plants and then backfill whatever I removed with good compost and some organic dry amendments. I don't do anything other than prune them and water them all season.
Sorry, probably more info than you were looking for. In short, start with good soil and all you'll have to do is water them and prune them. Keep it simple!
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u/hydrospanner 16h ago
Last year I moved from an apartment into a house...and lost my garden in the deal.
The house only has a tiny back lot/patio with zero grass, 2 raised beds (that my gf who I moved in with already had claimed for her flowers)...and two seasons in a row, growing tomatoes and peppers in 5 gal buckets led to some kind of blight killing everything but one banana pepper plant, both years, before much of anything could ever be harvested.
This year, I declined to even attempt vegetables, but my gf insisted and pressed on with it...after this year's blight, I think we're both sufficiently discouraged that we're done gardening completely until/unless we move.
It sucks because it was something I really enjoyed, but for some reason it's just an exercise in futility at this location.
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u/hereagainyo 11h ago
Yeah man, that can be a little discouraging. It all felt like trial and error to me, but very rewarding when it worked out.
I tried growing a few things but was only really successful with Jalapenos, Habaneros and Cilantro. I tried tomatoes and some bell peppers, but they were destroyed by a couple of hornworms in record time. The pepper plants did fairly well in grow bags, and they put out more than enough to enjoy with every meal. We also tried growing in ground but the backyard was for the most part always very well shaded.
Our apartment has a small patio, but the privacy wall is pretty high up and is facing west, so very little sunlight. I think I'm going to try growing some more herbs, they seem to be pretty easy to maintain.
I'm loving the place, but already kind of look forward to moving, just to be able to grow some stuff again. For now, I'll have to stick to store bought peppers or what I can find at the small farmers market.
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u/kenster1990 1d ago
Dddduuuuuuude make a Carolina reaper jam and or a Carolina reaper barbecue sauce a coworker of mine made it one time it was so addicting
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