Market table

Today was the first market at Village Pointe. About half of the garlic was sold and all of the peppers. It was good to see some returning customers from last year and I got the feeling they were anxious, as I am, for more of the hot varieties to be ready. The next market I will be at is on Aug 14th and I am looking forward to seeing you there.

First pepper Harvest

 

Well tomorrow is our first market for this year. The peppers are coming in but not many are ripe yet, just a handful. Fortunatley we also have some garlic, carrots and a few onions that will be available. I see a lot of fruit on the plants and I am excited for the next market we are scheduled for on Aug 14th as I expect a larger variety will be ready by then.

Dates for Farmers Market at Village Pointe

The schedule I have for our attendance at the farmers market are listed below. There will be one additional day, probably in September and I will post that once I know for sure.  If you would like more details about the market I attend the link is http://www.voterealfood.com/
Hope to see you there.
7-24
8-14
8-21
9-4
9-18
9-25
10-2

Ripe and unexpected pepper

So I have this plant that is bearing fruit of the kind seen in the photo and I have it labeled as a Cayenne (red hot) pepper. The cayenne pepper I was expecting is about half the size of this pepper and I am just not sure what I have here. I picked one and, of course, had to try it. The flavor was actually a little sweet and it had a nice kick to it. This could turn into being a surprise winner. I guess the next step is to try and figure out a name for it and where it came from.

The seeds that I used for this plant came from fruit out of last years harvest so I am wondering if possibly this is a mixture of two different plants or if the seeds I recovered have reverted back to a pre-hybrid state. Either way it is interesting to have an unexpected plant with, what turned out to be, a tasty fruit. If anyone recognizes this pepper and has an idea of what it might be feel free to leave a comment.

Garlic

Just pulled garlic to sell at the farmers market at Village Pointe. Our first date there will be July 24th. I am expecting to have banana, habenero, jalepeno, cayenne (including red slims, red hots and kung pao), poblano and sweet crimson peppers available on that first day.  This is the first year for Garlic and I am hopeful that the garlic will go over well. I have used it a few times already and there is no comparison. The first use was for a homemade spaghetti sauce, it really added a lot of flavor. We also roasted some by drizzling olive oil on the top and then adding some pepper and salt, wrapped it in aluminum foil and baked for 20 minutes at 350...delicious.

Hot banana peppers.

Can be eaten yellow but I read they are really good when they turn red. I will be sure to try it both ways. Habenero plants are starting to get fruit along with several other varieties. I hope to have a nice variety by July 24th.

First pepper of the year. Sliced onto a burger. Quite tasty.