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Growing Serrano Pepper Plants

Serrano peppers are a fairly hot pepper, with a Scoville rating between 10,000 to 25,000. Serrano peppers are hotter than Jalapenos, and provide great flavoring with less heat with the seeds removed. Serrano peppers are also commonly used in making salsa such as Pico De Gallo.

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Jalapeno Peppers

Jalapeno peppers is the small hot peppers seen frequently in Mexican dishes and in the salsa. Jalapenos have become common throughout many cuisines, and in the United States is one of the most popular ways to add heat to any dish. Jalapeno peppers originated in Mexico and are typically easy to grow. Jalapeno peppers can take a while to germinate but after germination Jalapeno plants grow quickly. Because of the long germination period in growing zones with shorter warm seasons it’s recommended you start your peppers a few weeks before the last frost inside.

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Common Milkweed

General: Milkweed Family (Asclepiadaceae). Common milkweed (Asclepias syriaca) is a perennial herb growing from a deep rhizome. The hairy stems are usually solitary from a simple to branched and thickened base, and are 6-20 dm (1.9-6.5 ft) tall.

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Periwinkle

Background
Common periwinkle was first introduced into North America in the 1700s as an ornamental. It is still commonly sold as an ornamental ground cover.

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Marigolds

Marigolds (Tagetes) consist of a genus of 56 species of annual and perennial plants. Marigolds are in the sunflower family (Asteraceae, Compositae). Marigolds are native to North and South America, but they have been naturalized around the world.

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White Prickly Poppy

Description

General: White prickly poppy (Argemone albiflora spp. texana) is an erect, prickly, deep-rooted, annual or biennial that contains bright yellow latex (Correl & Johnston, 1996). A member of the poppy (papaveraceae) family, it has a showy white flower, with numerous yellow or reddish stamens (Ajilvsgi, 1991). The sepals of the white prickly poppy are topped with sharp prickles, and the sepals fall off as the flower expands (Zomlefer, 1994).

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Sweet William

Sweet William (Dianthus barbatus) is a herbaceous biennial or short-lived perennial plant native to the mountains of southern Europe from the Pyrenees east to the Carpathians and the Balkans, with a variety disjunct in northeastern China, Korea, and southeastern most Russia. It grows to 30-75 cm tall, with green to glaucous blue-green tapered leaves 4-10 cm long and 1-2 cm broad. The flowers are produced in a dense cluster of up to 30 at the top of the stems and have a spicy, clove-like scent; each flower is 2–3 cm diameter with five petals with serrated edges; in wild plants the petals are red with a white base.

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Growing Serrano Pepper Plants

Jalapeno Peppers

Common Milkweed

Periwinkle

Marigolds

White Prickly Poppy

Sweet William

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