Originally Posted by
HSLD
Years ago before I had the good sense to leave Texas
I put in a pepper garden - Jalapenos, Serrano, and Habaneros. In keeping with my black-thumb-of-death gardening practices I put 3x as many seeds in as I should have. They all came in, grew like weeds, and I swear the Serrano and the Jalapenos cross-polinated to form a pepper nearly as hot as the Habaneros.
Last fall I had to dig up my pepper plants and bring them inside because the peppers hadn't ripened before the first freeze. Now I have a slowly disappearing string of dried peppers hanging over my front door and some indoor greenery to brighten a dreary Midwestern winter.
I'm still not sure if I'm going to try to plant these outside again when it gets warm enough, or if I will try some new ones (and possibly a different variety) for this year and keep these inside.
I wish I lived somewhere where I could keep a pepper plant alive outside for more than a season.