That’s right. Yesterday we returned from upstate and drove right into a 101 feels like 104. My weather app has 5 separate alerts for NYC regarding the heat and the air quality. The Big Apple turned into a Giant Melting Pot, and not in a good way.
Speaking of pots, not everyone is complaining about the heat. Appropriately, my potted cayenne peppers love it: they turned bright red over the weekend and are celebrating like little communists on parade. They must have confused their holidays but, from a purely botanical perspective, I’d rather have them red than red-white-and-blue.
I planted the seeds (from my last year’s cayenne harvest) in late February, and here we are. Their siblings in the garden are still green but they don’t have to be fully ripe to eat. I sliced one up finely and mixed with a little rice vinegar, sugar, salt (fish sauce works even better) and cilantro to make a really nice sauce to drizzle over stuff.
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Just a few photos from yesterday. These are supposed to be Laguna Gladiolus that I bought as bulbs from Hirt’s Garden on Amazon but mine (on the left and below) look quite different from the picture on the website (on the right)… Although still very pretty.
Started from a seed in early March, he’s been slowly blushing on the terrace outside our bedroom window over the last couple of days. And today he turned almost perfectly red! The first tomato of the season!!! I’m very excited and take his early arrival as a good omen for this summer — after my entire tomato jungle fell victim to the late blight tomatocide last year.
Sadly, it is also the only tomato on the entire plant — I guess the amount of soil in the pot wasn’t enough to support more fruit. So, Mr. Tomato is a little lonely. Perhaps we should throw him a nice bar mitzvah and invite his friend Liza?..
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