Welcome to the Website of Devilberries.comDevil Berries is a new
business with which I hope to market the fruit o My first 100 plants turned out to be 90% male because at this stage we didn’t know there were two sexes. However both sexes have deep red stems, dark green leaves and profuse white blossoms. The ladies produce small black berries that are so hot nothing much seems to bother with them. When dried the berries resemble black pepper and serve much the same function, although they have a much more distinct aroma and flavour. My home in Crabtree is on the edge of the Mount Wellington Water Reserve and offers ideal conditions for growing peppers. For futher reading on the native pepper, checkout this link from wikipedia. Pademelons and Marsupial Lawn My neighbour (a librarian and keen observer of native
wildlife) introduced me to this Farmers hate them (and shoot them) because they steal
their cattle’s grass and reduce hay production. Farm paddocks
and fences designed to keep cattle in would require much more I use chicken wire to fence them both in and out. With the gate open (or a hole in the fence) they eat the grass around my pepper trees down to a bowling green without touching the peppers. Then I close the gate to let the grass recover to a rich green and their excrement to break down. Then I let them return before it gets too long for them to graze. This process boosts the fertility of the patches with minimum effort on my part. Perhaps this is a strategy for farmers? The Uses of Pepper Pepper berries can be dried and ground like black pepper. I can recommend it on pasta and I am told it goes well as a seasoning for native animal meat. There are businesses producing pepper-flavoured cheeses and one company produces a pepper vodka. The web site atasteofthebush.com describes cooking with lanceolata:
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