You could also dry some to make a nice dried jalapeño seasoning (love the flavor of dried jalapeño). Go old fashioned and use a big sewing needle with twine or fishing line, string em up and place them in a cool dry location. Usually take 2-3 weeks to dry depending on the climate. Once dry let them hang and pull them off when needed or crush them up and put them in a spice jar. Also could make some hot sauce. You just blanch the peppers (boil in white vinegar), then you stick them in a blender with other vegetables/peppers/seasonings, dilute with the vinegar you used to boil them until you get the preferred consistency, pour the mixture in a jar, stick in the fridge to let the ingredients meld for a couple weeks and voila! homemade hot sauce!

great advice on the tax preparer LOL my dad is a CPA and even his child, doesn't get his full undivided tax attention when i wait till early april LOL. the problem isn't all tax EVASION you are hearing about in the news w/ new govt. officials it's people choosing poor preparers and being stupid and not back checking on their own tax return. if you do not double check everything on your return this is what can happen...even thou my dad does mine i do it myself first (and mine is very complicated) and then even check his over lol. i have no sympathy for anyone w/ RS problems due to problems on their returns. my dad has never ever had a customer audited, thou has helped alot of non-clients thru audits. ~ liz

We have increased our winter market sales and winter markets. I am on our market board of directors, and we have increased our winter markets to every two weeks, all winter. It is a struggle to make it happen, but the added $$$ is nice. I am going to work on increasing my sales by growing more storage crops this year. Since we have the walk in cooler to keep them all, it should be a good deal. The kids are helpful. Never underestimate the helpfulness of a willing kindergartener! My youngest daughter was out helping me set drip tape. She was so helpful and saved so much time for me. She is my observant one. My tunnels are my saving grace and also having all the equipment I have this year has made a noted improvements on my efficiencies. Buying a 3 pt tiller, instead of borrowing, has made a huge improvement. I have 30 minutes before supper, I can till these 2 plots and then plant after supper. As in years prior, I would have to drive to someones house, get a trailer, come get my tractor, drive to person who has the tiller, load it up and come home. It was a wasted hour getting it and taking it back. I was thankful to be able to use it, but it took lots of time away from me.

Ronnyb123.... I bought the reaper seeds from an individual online, so I don't know how reliable of a source they are. Fairly new to starting peppers from seeds, mainly Jalapeño, Habanero & Black Pearls. Aside from my usual BPP I decided to try some new strains this year, so I ordered Peter Pepper & Reaper seeds from different people.... but only the reapers took off. Of those, there were 10 seeds total, and 7 germinated (my 3yr old mutilated 1 before it got its 1st true leaves :-/). I'm definite that the other 5 plants are true Reapers, but this one particular plant has always made me wonder what in the world it is. It's a beautiful plant nonetheless, and I just now noticed that the pods, while still small are turning much darker, like a muddy purplish green. I've only ever grown the common green variety of jalapeño, so I don't think this is the same type. Are there purple or black jalapeño? On another note, I've also experimented cross-pollinating this plant to a BPP (I have 9 of those), so it should be interesting what I end up with. How do I know if pollination was successful?