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Salt and pepper always pair together. We even have salt and pepper dispensers one sees on dining tables. But many do not know where the pepper comes from or how it is grown. There is white pepper powder and black pepper powder. Black is prepared without removing the outer cover while white pepper powder is prepared after removing the outer cover.
Birds thrive on pepper. When pepper is ready for harvest our garden gets plenty of birds and they finish quite a bit of pepper before we can harvest it. Their presence gives us more joy than what we would have saved if they did not come to enjoy our pepper.
Pepper vines cling to any hard surface including trees and walls. I have a few pepper vines and they have started yielding. Pepper vines need little maintenance.
The processing starts once they are ready for plucking. One or two turn red and that is the time one starts plucking. The plucked pepper is put in gunny bags and kept there for a few days as then it becomes easy to remove them from their stems that they stick to.
Pepper is then dried for a week out in the sun. It is then cleaned. A 10 kilo fresh pepper will weigh hardly 2 kilos once it is dried. The price of pepper is soaring. I sell most of it as I require just a little of it. Ground pepper from pepper grown at home is far better than getting it from the market.
Pepper has many health properties. It is excellent if one has a bad throat. Singers drink a concoction of this before they perform.
I make several dishes with pepper as the main ingredient. Here is one
French Beans
Cook on slow fire adding a little water. When beans change colour add pepper powder.
One can make cabbage using the same recipe.
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Pepper is an ingredient that doesn't lack in my kitchen. I happen to use pepper in most of my dishes, I usually feel if I don't cook good with pepper it doesn't taste right, I always feel like something is missing. In fact i tried to plant pepper one time using some dried seeds but nothing came out of it. I was then told that pepper grows on its own, when I asked how I was told about birds the way the would carry seeds from one pls a to another. So as they do this they also drop seeds in their way and that's how I ended up with two trees of pepper growing in my small backyard garden. At that will save me from having to buy pepper all the time. I now have pepper at my disposal at anytime that I need.
That is indeed marvelous. You wished for it and you got it. It is such a joy using what we ourselves grow.
Yes pepper growing in home garden is the best method as you have described in your article but the most amazing feature of pepper is the birds gathering the harvest season I will call the peppers birds as the humming birds that make their nests in the pepper trees I like the most Humming bird but you did not mention the lover of pepper tree.
Pepper is useful for liver it blocks jaundice anon if pepper is present enough in your body. Pepper and clove its mixture is the best mixture for curry.
Besides, Brazilian pepper of red color is also famous all over the world but you did not discuss in your article.
Thanks for that info on Brazilian pepper. The birds that come in groups to eat our pepper are not humming birds. They look like sparrows - a bigger version. I will try and find out what they are called.
If am to say to mention the important crops that can be grown in kitchen gardens, I will first of all talk about pepper and tomato.
But the most important is pepper because one can't do without it when cooking and it's very easy to grow.
Not just very easy to grow, it's harvest is multiple. One stand yields tens of pepper unlike tomato.
Pepper can easily be grown by just pouring a water containing a lot of its seed, when the crop starts germinating, the farmer picks them and plant them in due places around the kitchen garden.
Pepper grow very fast and also yield very fast and in multiples and it yields two times before weaning and dying.
Pepper has different colours, we have the red pepper, the green paper and the yellow pepper and all vary slightly in properties.
Pepper require soil with high moisture content to enhance its growth and production and a closet look at it will make it yield a lot.
Pepper is very important that no meal can be prepared without it. It goes in hand with salt.
For me I think it is the best crop to be planted in the kitchen garden, other crops follows.
Just a bit of clarification. I hope you are not mixing with capsicum which is also known as pepper.