It probably vocalize ridiculous to those of you swaddled in coke in other office of the country in good order now , to know that also right now , my most prolific harvest from the garden are these darling chile peppers calledFilius Blue .
It ’s February , Punxsutawney Phil is telling us six more week of winter , but apparently California miss the memo . ( Not that Phil ’s ever been correct , anyway ; according toNPR , the wretched fella ’s only had 39 percent accuracy since he started his forecasting calling in 1887 . )
With our own weather lingering in the 70s and 80s all wintertime , these little common pepper have been flowering and fruiting like gangbusters . Every other week I bring in another smattering of deceptively tiny peppers that are so strong , a little sound a long way of life . That means I ’ve been inundate with peppers all season long and keeping a roll in the kitchen where I dump them all , ready for drying .
Filius Blue is an heirloom chile originating from Mexico . It ’s a compact plant life , grow no more than 2 foot grandiloquent with puritanic - tinged foliation and delicate white flower , and because of that it makes a beautiful container industrial plant .
The black pepper are very ornamental , start out as a deep bluish - purpleness and maturing into an orangey - blood-red . When young , the peppers have a lot of heat , measuring 40,000 to 58,000 units on the Scoville graduated table . ( In comparing , a serrano pepper measures 10,000 to 23,000 Scoville units . ) But as they ripen into flame ruby-red yield , they become surprisingly mild in flavor ( though they still have quite a kick ) .
My flora are come in their second year and doing well , even adapting to thisweird weatherwhen I think I ’d for sure lose them during an early December frigid tour . I keep them right outside my kitchen door in 10- and 12 - column inch pots , and they have n’t acquire more than a foot tall . But they acquire more peppers than I ’ll ever need and seem to permit our episodic coastal daze and nighttime first in the 50s . I ’m a little afraid of what these plants will see like once we start up convey more sun in the summer !
