peter piper picked a peck of purple peppers

[the_siobhan]

I finally found the receipt from when I bought the plant - it's a Chinese Five Colour Pepper. The peppers that were once purple and woody have progressed to green, then yellow, orange and finally red.

I tried one of the red ones. My head instantly BURST INTO FLAMES. A pot of yogurt later and the feeling is just starting to come back to my nose. There's a painful red patch on my hand from where I spilled some of the juice.

Whoaa, mama.

That would explain why the squirrels haven't gone anywhere near them. I should plant a ring of them around the house, it would probably keep the mice out.

[ETA] Christ, I absent-mindedly put the back of my hand in my mouth to relieve the sting. Now my lips are on fire again. Shit on toast.

Comments

[empressjad.livejournal.com]

Last year, the Japanese Beetles were terrible here. We used those peppers, ground up and mixed with water, as a deterrent. It worked better than anything else ever had.
They're also really good infused into olive and vinegar, as someone suggested...just use veeeery sparingly.

[greylock.livejournal.com]

We used those peppers, ground up and mixed with water, as a deterrent.

That sounds like an awesome idea. We have lawn beetle at the moment. I wonder if it would work just as well? Hey, it can't hurt for cockroaches either.

Time to figure out how to dry me some chillies.

[girfan.livejournal.com]

I wonder if it works on slugs...

[empressjad.livejournal.com]

I would think that, at the very least, they'd be damned uncomfortable...

[the-siobhan.livejournal.com]

You may have found a cure for my basil plants!