Re: [Gardening] Overwinter your hot pepper plants indoors

For the past several years, I have been overwintering a few hot peppers plants indoors. (They are productive for several years in their native range.) I either grow one or two in pots all summer or dig out choice plants from the garden and pot them for the winter. Replanting them in the ground in July gives you a jump on fruit production because not as much energy has to go to vegetative growth, and a larger plant produced more pods. I've been most successful with Fatalii and Tobasco peppers. I've never been lucky with habanero for some reason. I got tons of crazy peppers ready for pickling, hot sauce, and drying for flakes/powder. I encourage you to try this if you are a pepper head. Yesterday I dug up the plants I'll overwinter because of the fear of the coming frost. Today is a great day to do it too! Remember to water liberally if you are digging out a plant and re-potting it. Especially if your trimming roots or replanting after removing all soil, as this reduces overall root-soil contact. A little dash of fertilizer in the pot is also a good idea. Cheers. -Damian 219 Lafayette Rd. _______________________________________________ Gardening mailing list Gardening(a)eastraleigh.org http://www.eastraleigh.org/mailman/listinfo/gardening