12/27-Its 45 Degrees & I Just a Lot of Hot Peppers

I am so happy. Look at the twin Pablano pepper.


I still has tomatoes til last week. My Basil just started to seed and my Scallions & Chives are thirving. I just planted a batch of Leaf Lettuce and Baby Spinach.

I never thought my garden would still be alive and thriving this time of year as cold as it has gotten. We have had a few frost and they have all snuck up on me and I had no time to take any precautionary measures, but everything has surived.

Has anyone else had any luck with thier garden this winter?

 

Now there's to much snow here since I'm really in the north compare to you USA buddies. But it's pretty impressive how long you can keep your vegetables going before the frost kill everything. On our farm, we taught we would still be collectin' the tomatoes in the snow, they just didn't wanna die for so long. Most of our plants have been alive for longer than usual.

 

Where I live, flowers bloom in January. The Pacific ocean keeps the summers cool and the winters almost warm. We have snow, but rarely.

I don't do a winter garden for the simple fact that winter here is the rainy season. It rains about 20 days out of every month. For about 6-7 months.

Dry otherwise.



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I have picked alot more cayenne that I need to get a pic up.

Next year I am thinking about growing some chocolate habarenos.

 

We garden year round here. Things do slow down a little with the shorter days. I just picked a batch of peas and the cilantro is growing like crazy. Just a few jalepenos left. I left the pepper plants and am wondering if they'll overwinter and bloom again next year. My artichoke is in it's 2nd year and looks like it will be huge!

 

There will be a good chance that your pepper plants will make it, but for full flavor you will want to replant every year.