RE: [CH] Chile-Heads Digest V5 #83
Stephanie Bridges (steph@palisadesys.com)
Fri, 16 Oct 1998 11:27:46 -0500
> I just had the hortoculturalist at the local nursery try to
> disuade me from
> trying to over winter my 3 surviving pepper plants. Her rational
> was that
> they are in nature an annual plant and that the yield during the second
> season is never as good as the first season's yield. Can anybody on the
> list say if there is any truth to this statement or was she just
> promoting
> her employer's interests (i bought the plants and supplies at this place)
>
I brought my Red Savina in last fall and kept it next to my south window all
winter. We probably had 80 - 100 peppers on it this summer, barely had 20
or 30 the first year. We're going to try for a second winter to see what
happens. It's been making a mess in the living room already dropping
leaves, but we had to bring it in, we had frost last week. (Got it in just
in time, it frosted the same night we brought it in.)
Just my experience, YMMV.
Steph B.
CH#1125 in Ames, IA