Joe
@itsjoe.bsky.social
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Chicago Zone 6 Gardening, Cooking, Artist. I design pop-up cards 👉 https://toadlypoppin.com
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Ground up the dried shishitos into paprika and it is such a pretty red. I might have to make some paprikash with it. 🌱 #zone6 🍽️
Ground up dried mature shishito peppers
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I’d say about 6 hours or so.
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Yeah these ones I let go fully mature/red so they’re sweeter.
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Today is shishito drying day for some homemade paprika. 🌱 #zone6
Mature shishito peppers being dehydrated
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We were 5b and are now 6a I think. You can really tell things have changed since we hardly get hardly any snow anymore. Which sucks cause I love snow.
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Or fried green tomatoes. Yum!!!
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It’s almost the middle of October and here I am still harvesting tomatoes. Thats crazy! #zone6 #gardeningfeed 🌱
Fresh tomatoes from the garden.
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Have you ever grown indoor cucumbers? I didn’t even know this was a thing until today. I think I’ll try them over the winter. It’ll give me something to do until spring comes.

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We live 12 blocks from the #broadview ICE “camp” and all day everyday for the past 3 weeks, it’s helicopters circling. 2026/28 can’t come soon enough. 🖕 #ice
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I grow the dill just for them, so the more the better!

Yeah them hornworms are such jerks. Which is too bad cause their moth is so cool.
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My dill patch is covered in late season swallowtail caterpillars. Everywhere I look, there’s another. 🌱 #zone6 #gardeningfeed #caterpillars
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Let my shishitos mature to red. Now I’m going to dry them and turn them into a paprika. I may smoke them first but haven’t decided yet. 🌱 #zone6 #gardeningfeed
Shishito peppers fully mature.
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Do you cover crop? I may be trying winter wheat this year and curious what you use. 🌱 #zone6 #gardeningfeed
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Maybe we’ll get a fall after all. I was afraid we’d go from the high 80s of the last weeks and go straight into snow. I’ve held off on planting my garlic but looks like maybe next week I can get them in the ground. 🌱 #gardeningfeed #zone6
Chicago weather
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My chilaca (pasilla) pepper plant has been the production winner this season. This is just one branch off the plant. There has to be close to 100 or more peppers on the whole thing. 🌱 #urbangarden #gardeningfeed
Chilaca pepper plant, which are pasilla peppers once dried.
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Still finding #monarch caterpillars on my milkweed. You better hurry up! Winters coming. #gardeningfeed #urbangarden 🌱
Monarch caterpillar on milkweed
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Since the squirrels are messing with the red kuri squash daily now, it’s time to harvest before they take a single bite out of the rest. From one plant we got 15 total squash. Pretty good I’d say. I think I’ll be growing these again next year. 🌱 #urbangarden #gardeningfeed #squash
Res kuri squash
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The most useless garden kitty. While the squirrels naw on my winter squash, this thing just lays there. I want to speak to your manager! 🌱 #kitty #gardeningfeed
Cat laying in the sun.
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Damn you squirrels! 😡 🖕 I guess that means I’m making squash tomorrow. 🌱 #gardeningfeed #urbangarden
Red kuri squash
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If I could stop walking through #spider webs every time I go outside that would be great! Took my dog out and felt like Gulliver being tied down by the Lilliputians. 🕷️ 🕸️
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When you get sick, what is your go to food? That something you crave when under the weather. 🍽️ #cooking #food
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They’re so tasty if you blister fry them and serve them with a dip. I make a spicy mayo dip usually that’s mayo, sriracha, garlic, Worcestershire and onion powder.
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My shishito plant has been providing like crazy. I really think it should be renamed to the chili roulette plant though, cause you never know what you’re gonna get from one pepper to the next. My mouth is currently on fire like I just ate a habenero. 🥵 🌱 #gardeningfeed #urbanfarming
Shishito peppers
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We’ve entered the wasps all up in your face season. #fall #insects #meme
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The #moon looks amazing right now. So big and orange!