Pickled! - which I never do to ruin the flavor of sweet pickles.

I got lucky with this, just happened upon the seedling in a local shipment from Iwasaki Bros - do you see their plants up there?

@tinkercreek Never heard of them but then I don't usually go to nurseries. Just out of curiosity - my daughter once gave us a plant catalogue. There are tons of peppers in all sorts of colors. [rareseeds.com]
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@JackPedigo I've ordered from them before, great company, but I don't see my "Purple Queen" there - maybe next season.

@tinkercreek Out of curiosity I looked up Iwasaki Bros. It seems to be an Oregon company. Do you have a large garden?

@JackPedigo No, my garden is quite small, an especially good choice for this 'heat wave year'. Iwasaki products are quite reliable, good quality, and wonderful people - I graduated hs with 2 Iwasaki kids, both stellar folks.

@tinkercreek 2 Iwasaki kids? do they sell seeds for that? lol Our back garden is 55' X 65" and was built by the previous owner who was a religious nut and was sure Y2K would happen. He put a great fence around it and even built a tower with 1,500 gallon water tank. When Y2K was a bust he just walked away. It was a ton of work and when my partner died I tried to keep up but finally gave up this year. Now I leave the gate open in hopes the deer will eat the weeds. Besides there are two more gardens, one in front (no veges) and one on the side, which I created.

Yes, and I picked the first one too soon a few weeks back. There was still a tinge of green on one side that I hadn't seen, and the inside was green - still tasted sweeter than a true green pepper!

Okra are sneaky? Sneaky the way squash is?

@MsKathleen Worse, you only have 1-2 days to pick okra before it gets too tough to eat. With squash at leastr you can still use it for something else most of the time.

@glennlab I do not grow it and there is never fresh available in my desert, so I use frozen.