Week 18: Harvest Time!

This is the moment I've been waiting for! I harvested 12 red cayenne peppers this past week! Ok, I admit I actually haven't eaten any yet - but that will come soon. I will eat it in Andy's presence and with a huge glass of milk sitting in waiting. All of these peppers came from the same plant. As soon as I harvested the first 5, which were almost red at the time of last week's blog, others immediately started to show some red. There were a few peppers which went from all green to all red in two to three days. My guess is I may end up harvesting all of the peppers on this plant by sometime next week.

The other plant with a ton of green peppers seems to be on the verge of heading to red. A few peppers show the first sign of color change, which is blackening near the tip of the pepper. The third plant is till not doing a whole lot pepper-wise. I'm thinking the 5 peppers on it may be all I'm going to get. Very odd.

The herbs continue to do really well. I added two new herbs to the garden this week - planted cilantro from seed and planted herb chives which I bought at a local nursery.

On to the photos!

First harvest!

Next batch quickly turned red after the first harvest.

Second harvest.

Red, beautiful red.

Third harvest.

The three oddest pepper plants ever.

More peppers  turning red.

A bad perspective, but this plant is right at 27 inches tall. Unfortunately, most of the flowers just die and fall. I trimmed the tops off because I didn't want to raise my grow lights any higher, so this will be the maximum height for these pepper plants.

Tons of green peppers. Red isn't too far in the future.

Rosemary finally showing signs of a more robust growth.

Garlic chives - a new addition to the garden.

Holy thyme batman! I really really need to harvest this stuff.

The entire happy family.