Phil wrote
what type of peppers are the small ones you have there? they look like my wife's Red Hot Cherry peppers
Our weather took a dip, covered everything, now we are suppose to get a week to 10 days without worries of frost or freeze, but it won't be warm enough for much growth, hoping to get the last of our peppers matured a little bit more.
They're all Hot Cherry peppers. However, I picked the little ones, too, because I could not bear to throw them out. While prepping them this morning, I found that many of the little ones were spongy or too hail-dented to use, and I regretted the time spent stripping each plant
Man, you have got to live in southern Minnesota, Phil. I used to live in Sioux Falls, and I do believe the weather there was colder than it is here in Casper
I did just as you did, letting the rest of my garden pretty much go, but covering these peppers to squeeze a little bit more color out of 'em. I read somewhere that if you tug on a pepper plant, loosening its roots just a tetch, you can hasten maturity. I thought about trying it, but I got lazy.
Rainbow wrote
But here on the edge of the inner city in the city's heat island light frosts often miss me.
That is so funny you mentioned this, Rainbow. As you know, half my garden is in my front yard, along the sidewalk, and the other half is way in the back of my yard, roughly 20 feet from a drainage ditch. I have been noticing all fall that the back yard garden suffers considerably worse from colder temps than the front yard. I finally decided the heat from the sidewalk and the street's asphalt keep the front yard garden warmer by as much as two or three degrees. Am I crazy, or is this possible?
