What can I do with Tabasco Peppers?

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Anyway, did you plant them in the ground or little pots?

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In a medium pot now. Once they get big enough, going to move them to a box planter.

Have about nine sprouting. Going to have to move them soon so they can grow.

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I tried tomatoes and they started ok, plenty of sun but birds got to them when I wasn't home.

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I'll talk to a guy I know about how to keep birds away. He grows a huge garden every year with awesome cherry tomatoes. He says he's never had a bird problem, and there is a trick, but I forgot what it is.

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Birds never touched them. They killed the large tomatoes though.

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That's what these were. They were a decent size and right when they started to turn red is when they got to them.


I got home and went out to water them and they were still on the plant but it looked like when you take a bite out of an apple. You could tell they had been sitting there just picking at it.

I only had 2 plants so not a big thing.

Do they get to peppers too? I really have no idea.

Tabasco peppers-make peppered vinegar
Birds in garden-string some aluminum pie plates along a line near the plants, wind blows, pans knock together & birds stay the hell away.

Pepper jelly

Nope; but pretty close. I'm assuming you're asking because of my sig. That's just a saying my Pop used to say, usually at kickoff or when something was fixing to "get started".

Put in jars of vinegar

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I will soak them in bourbon for two weeks-a month and then turn them into a hot sauce.

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Want to take it to the next level? Get some medium American oak cubes from a local homebrew shop. Soak those in bourbon for a few days. Add those to a jar. Take your peppers and run them through a food processor and turn them into a mash. Add this mixture to the jar with the cubes. Add a tablespoons of salt and mix in. Cover the top of the mixture with something that has some weight. You want to limit exposure to oxygen. Close up the jar and set in a dark cabinet. For the first month, crack the jar every so often to release CO2 buildup. After the first month you should be good to crack the lid less often. Higher temps will cause it to ferment faster.

After a couple months, remove the mash from the jar and separate out the oak cubes to throw away. Take the mash and combine with a little vinegar in a food processor. Run it real well. It should mostly liquefy. Strain through a cheese cloth and bottle it up. You now have homemade tabasco sauce. One of my homebrew friends told me this technique. I've yet to try it, but I hope I get a good amount of peppers this year to try it with.