Fish peppers to your garden and kitchen that little extra

Peppers are # 2 on my list of favorite summer vegetables. Tomatoes definitely the No. 1 spot. We continue to grow sweet peppers, hot peppers sweet peppers and a couple of (jalapenos and / or cayenne pepper). I decided to try fish peppers this year after finding them in the Seed Savers Exchange catalog. I grew them in the place of my hot varieties. Fish peppers are a hot pepper similar in heat to a Cayenne with colorful leaves. The colorful appearance is caused by the same recessiveGene responsible for albinism. Her story begins in the late 1800s and are an African-American heirloom. They are a unique plant that I'm planning to make a regular in my garden in the future.

History

The April / May 2009 issue of Mother Earth News includes William Woys Weaver's story about the history of the fish and peppers as they were introduced in present day seed catalogs. His story begins in the 1940s with an African-American painter named Mr. Pippin. Mr. Pippin had aarthritic diseases and to alleviate the pain of this disease, he would ask William's grandfather William's grandfather bees from the hive let it stand. Sounds like a myth, right? In return for the bees (the bees would die after stinging) Mr. Pippin was it different vegetables. The fish was one of those pepper seeds. These seeds were adopted by William of his grandfather and are the source of the fish pepper seeds in seed catalogs current sold. Originally fromBaltimore Fish peppers were served by caterers black as an ingredient in sauces with shellfish and seafood.

Taste and aroma

Fish pepper Cayenne similar rank in terms of heat production (45.000 - 75,000 to the Scoville scale). How hot is that you might ask? Sweet peppers are classified 0, Cayenne 30000-50000 and Naga Jolokia (The hottest pepper in the world) is 1 million ranks. Fish peppers are a good substitute for all peppers in salsa called recipes. I will write afuture article in this fall with my thoughts on their tastes, increasing success, and how I see it.

Used

- As a popular ornamental plant for its colorful leaves
- Good for containers because of their compact size
- Add a little spice to a salad
- Dry and use as chili powder
- In salsa recipes, especially when served with fish and seafood

Try fish peppers for an heirloom pepper, excellent in the kitchen and ornamental characteristics makeInterest in the landscape. To save pure seeds from peppers fish isolate of 500 'from other pepper varieties. You could probably give satisfactory results with less distance, say 50 'with a high crop such as corn separates it from other varieties.

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