The peppers had a bit of a rough start this year. Fungus gnat infestation during the seedling stage indoors, leading to undersized weak plants going outside, where they were munched on by slugs, earwigs, and aphids for most of June and July. Luckily there was enough warm weather to eventually get the plants large enough to produce a harvest, and tall enough to be mostly safe from the critters in the soil. I dragged all of my green-pepper laden plants indoors at the beginning of November and have been leisurely picking ripe peppers ever since. Into a paper bag to ripen fully, then into the freezer until I decide what to do with them. I’ve had notoriously bad pepper results since I started gardening in 2020, but this has been the best year yet for me.
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The peppers had a bit of a rough start this year. Fungus gnat infestation during the seedling stage indoors, leading to undersized weak plants going outside, where they were munched on by slugs, earwigs, and aphids for most of June and July. Luckily there was enough warm weather to eventually get the plants large enough to produce a harvest, and tall enough to be mostly safe from the critters in the soil. I dragged all of my green-pepper laden plants indoors at the beginning of November and have been leisurely picking ripe peppers ever since. Into a paper bag to ripen fully, then into the freezer until I decide what to do with them. I’ve had notoriously bad pepper results since I started gardening in 2020, but this has been the best year yet for me.