Herbs and Peppers
My parsley, basil and chives have all sprouted! The parsley was the last to come up, which was expected, but it is already taller then the basil. I am waiting for secondary leaves. I am not sure if I should thin the chives, aren’t they suppose to grow in clumps? (If you cannot tell, I’ve never grown chives from seed.)
I am still waiting for my morning glories to come up outside, but its only been 10 days.
I was also chopping a yellow bell pepper for my pasta salad today. When I sliced it open it was filled with mini green bells peppers.
I had to take a picture to ask if anyone had ever cut into a pepper and had it look like this? It still tasted fine so I just finished chopping it up and tossed it all in the salad.
Speaking of peppers, I may be banning myself from browsing Taste Spotting, it makes me drool way way wayyy too much and give me bad pregnancy cravings. I found this recipe for Pimientos de Padron, which I haven’t had since I lived in Spain. I waaaaant!
The peppers are mutating. That’s kind of kewl. I’ve never seen or heard
of that before.
It’s alive! IT”S ALIVE! Bwahahahaha!
(Sorry, couldn’t resist… Mutating makes me think of zombies…)
That is quite possibly the strangest thing I’ve heard of involving vegetables. o.o I’m almost mildly disturbed by it! I don’t know anything about it, though; I bet if you were aching to know, the people at the wtf_nature LJ community would be able to figure it out. x}
Glad it tasted okay, though. xD
GMO pepper cancer maybe? Hehe. For some reason it doesn’t bug me too much, I have seen weird stuff in my parents garden. Totally am going to look up that community now though!
Yeah that’s normal. It just happens sometimes. I’m not sure why I’d guess it’s just some cells got confused.
That makes sense, either way I’m pleased - two peppers for the price of one! XD
I often see the pepper thing with red peppers, almost never with green peppers. I think it has something to do with the different cultivars’ maturation rates, but am as of yet unsure as to the reason.