Lemon Drop harvest from 4 plants. Two quarts plus plenty left to ripen. My hat’s off to William Woys Weaver, the food historian and heirloom gardener (http://williamwoysweaver.com/biography/) whose 2006 Mother Earth News article on Lemon Drop peppers (http://www.motherearthnews.com/organic-gardening/aji-limo-zmaz06fmzwar.aspx?PageId=2) has answered questions I explicitly or implicitly posed in my last post (http://www.urban-ag-solutions.com/while-other-peppers-flop-this-one-still-drops/). And please give […]
Category Archives: Rooftop Gardening
While Other Peppers Flop, This One Still Drops!
Backlit Lemon Drop chiles on a summery October afternoon. This summer was a wonderful season for hot peppers. I would even hazard to say exceptional and rare, except that I fear that the heat we suffered will become more and more the norm. Still if that is the case, despite the hardships such shifts may […]
Tool Drool: A Little Garden Haircut Before the Start of School
My latest tool drool: a battery-powered hedge trimmer for back-to-school haircuts in the garden. Sometimes if you’re not totally pesto-crazy, it can be hard to keep up with basil, and eventually comes a day when, instead of leaves one starts to see spikes. Yikes! Here are the floral spikes of thai basil: deceptively, […]