Chilli Peppers

In early summer we bought some small chilli plants from the Farmers Market at Lake Anne and planted them in a trough on the decking.  They have been growing well and the peppers are now ripening.  This is a Jalapeño - we picked one of these a while back when it was still green and it was quite mild.  I expect that this will be a little hotter!

This is a Poblano - it is large and the plant has produced quite a few of them.  It should, I think, ripen to a dark green/purply black colour, provided the sunshine keeps going for a bit longer.

The third plant just screams 'hot' doesn't it?  Looking remarkably like the fierce 'Scotch Bonnet' chillies, these are Habaneros.



Here they are on the plants.  Another time we should probably give them a little more space to grow and spread.

David picked a couple of the chillies today to see how ripe they were.  There is quite a difference in size!

After slicing them up and tasting them, apparently there is quite a difference in heat too.  No prizes for guessing which of the two is very hot!