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Hello, Jimmy Nardello

Posted on August 27th, 2007 – 11:42 AM
By Jaime Chismar

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My tomatoes are cracking and mealy, but my peppers are in full swing. The hot peppers were the first victims on the cutting board, and now, the Jimmy Nardellos are ripe and ready. Despite their devilish appearance, JN’s are very sweet and very crunchy. Some twist and curl themselves into interesting shapes, others grow as long and straight as my forearm.

This year I may even have my very first RED bell pepper, too! Woo hoo!

This entry was posted on Monday, August 27th, 2007 at 11:42 am and is filed under Tomatoes, Peppers + Eggplant. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

2 Responses to "Hello, Jimmy Nardello"

Judybusy says:

August 27th, 2007 at 12:40 pm

Huh, so that’s a JN? I swear when I grew them last year, courtesy of a gift plant from Jaime, it was smaller and fatter. I now have peppers which look exactly like the picutre, but due to carelessness all my labes blew away in the wind before I stuck them in the ground! I will now check out those intimidating-looking peppers in the garden!

povertyrich says:

August 27th, 2007 at 6:02 pm

Nice pepper!

Unfortunately, due to the lack of summer here in the NW this year, we have no peppers turning ripe at all. They all just hang there, green and taunting me.

Also, we just pulled the first ripe roma tomatoes last week, and have only had ripe cherry and yellow plum tomatoes for a couple weeks.

I seem to remember July and August being a pepper and tomato bonanza last year when I was in Minneapolis. If summers are like this every year, it won’t be long before I move back.

Though I’m putting in a make-shift greenhouse against the garage this weekend.

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