Peppers!

So believe it or not, we got our first frosts here in the Catalina Foothills this past week. We were dutiful and covered as much as we could to try to save our plants. Most everything made it through fine, some blackening on the sweet basil being the worst damage other than...

Our jalepeno plant.

I was warned quite firmly early in the week that if a chile plant sees frost, it will rock its world, and wouldn't you know the one plant who's black garbage bag of protection blew off of... was the jalepeno plant.

I don't think it's doomed, but honestly I have no clue. The stock looks green, firm, healthy, but most of the foliage browned and withered the very next day. In an effort to coax the little guy into putting all of his root resources into rebuilding, we did an emergency harvest. Good thing too, half the peppers I didn't even need to cut off, they just broke off withering end stock.

Anywhoo... I thought we had about 20 or so peppers on there. I was wrong.

I didn't do a full count, but it was more like 40-50. We had to pitch some because the birds had gotten at them, but as for the rest. Washed and put out on racks to dry.

From what we've read, this should take 3 weeks or so. Go go Tucson gardening experiment #432.8!