2018 Blooming Amaryllis

Amaryllis Rozetta

Amaryllis Picotee

✿ Jamaican Chocolate Scotch Bonnet Hot Pepper

Chocolate Scotch Bonnet Pepper is a Jamaican pepper with hot, fruity and smoky flavor.
Peppers are very hot and turn from green, to brown with red tint, to chocolate brown when mature. Thick flesh pod and deeply ribbed. Chocolate scotch bonnet pepper grows 3 feet tall. Plant has green stems, green leaves, and white flowers. About 120-180 days from germination to ripe fruit, depending on growing conditions. Excellent for making beef jerky and Jamaican jerk sauces. 325,000 to 425,000 Scoville Units!

chocolate scotch bonnet seedling

Beautiful deep green fruit will mature into a chocolate brown color later.

Very productive pepper even grown in pot!

✿Red Climbing Malabar Spinach

✿ Harvest day! Okinawan Purple Sweet Potato

✿ Harvest Day! Molokai Purple Sweet Potato

After watching the beautiful, vigorous vines cover my garden bed through the summer months, finally I decided to test dig some plants to see if they are the good size to get out of ground.  How exciting!  The fun thing about growing sweet potatoes is the you will never know what you get until you start digging! The Molokai sweet potato produces a cluster of tubers close to the soil line, so its fairly easy to get them out. 

......There it is!

The Molokai sweet potato is surely one of the most productive purple variety out there. Within just four months, two plants produced a decent amount of sweet potatoes filled up my wash basket, nice size too. We are gonna cure these guys for at least four to six weeks and soon enough we will be able to enjoy the harvest. Yum!

✿ Italian Prosperosa Eggplant Plant Guide

Heirloom type grown in Tuscany, in northwestern Italy. A trusted favorite for generations, Prosperosa offers a new look and more sweet, mild flavor.These deep violet fruits are round, with slight ribbing and a very glossy sheen. Meaty, tender, mild-flavored flesh is delicious just sliced and sautéed with olive oil, but also good for grilling or eggplant parmesan.

✿ Korean Dark Green Hot Pepper Plant Guide

✿ Ichiban Eggplant Fruiting

Use a netting to avoid cross-pollination.

baby Ichiban eggplant #1

✿ Red-Seeded Asparagus/Yardlong Bean Plant Guide

Red-Seeded Asparagus Bean

Asparagus bean is a string-less legume cultivated to be eaten as green pods. The plant is subtropical/tropical and most widely grown in the warmer parts of South Asia, Southeast Asia, and southern China.They grow well under almost any conditions–very resistant to heat, humidity and insects; great for the South. They are a good source of protein, vitamin A, thiamin, riboflavin, iron, phosphorus, and potassium, and a very good source for vitamin C, folate, magnesium, and manganese.

✿ The Continuance of Sweet Potato Slips Shipping Survivability Test

It has been a whole week since the shipping survival test of the sweet potato slips. How are they doing? Let's take a look!

I trimmed all the yellow and black leaves off and planted the stems in a small pot with garden soil followed by a complete soak. The pot was left on the porch without direct sun.

Wow! Yellow leaves greened up. Thanks to the sun!