[CH] Good morning, friends,

Ron Hay (ronhay@pacbell.net)
Tue, 14 Dec 1999 07:30:36 -0800

Yes, it is quiet in my garden at the moment, except for my stellar
serranos (!). Even though we have short days, night time lows of 40
degrees, but warm sunny days in the high 60s, we harvested 143 fire
engine red serranos from our four plants last week. Amazing for mid
December. The interesting thing about them is that they have not lost
their fire, in contrast to my jalapenos last year, which lived until we
had a hard frost. By this time of year, the jalapenos had the kick of a
bell pepper, which was very disappointing.

Needless to say, we are enjoying using the fresh chiles in our Indian
cooking:)

Ron
Van Nuys, CA