June 27, 2025
I thought I’d provide an update on growing peppers in five gallon buckets.
June 11 (Wednesday), I took a look at my pepper plants in the five gallon buckets. They are growing well and producing lots of peppers.
The rain and wind earlier in the week had caused some of the pepper plants to lean. To resolve the lean, I carefully pushed down around the pepper plant base. Once the plant was straightened, I used Velcro to attach the plant to the pole stuck in the pot with the pepper plant.
I love blistered shishito peppers, sprinkled with a coarse salt. This harvest made a lovely appetizer for dinner. It was a great use of our “new” grill. I don’t recall what else I cooked on the grill, but I made dinner on the grill.
If anyone is interested, I’ll do a post to go step by step on how I am growing peppers in buckets. Just leave a comment asking for the post.
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Can you guys really eat all that you grow? That’s a lot of hot peppers!
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We’ve been keeping up with the larger varieties of peppers. We love hot peppers. The Tabasco and Thai hot will be turned into pepper sauce and dried peppers. If I can get a smoker, I am going to smoke peppers! I’ve been looking at smokers on and off.
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Those are so beautiful–all of them! We don’t eat many peppers, Randy never, son likes hot, and I do banana peppers and sweet peppers, and those rarely. I loved chili rellenos at my favorite Mexican restaurant in Texas, however.
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I am also growing poblano peppers for chili rellenos and stuffing. I love chili rellenos and hope to make some with my own peppers.
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That sounds fun! I thought I might try raised beds in the fall and next spring, but not as large an enterprise as you have. It has been so miserably hot I never got my raised bed constructed yet, but I have the blocks and the wood ready!
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The heat has been miserable! I am truly grateful for air conditioning! Once the weather cools down, I am sure you’ll be able to put together the beds you have.
At least the region has been getting rain so we don’t have to try and water in this heat.
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