Overwintering Hot Pepper Plants. Method #2.

 I don't know if this will work.  These didn't ripen all of their peppers, so I wanted to move them into the sunroom to finish ripening.  It's similar to the other method, but less pruning.

This is a nice Thai pepper plant.  I dug it up and hosed off the roots.  No pruning, this time,

Then I potted it in good potting soil and watered it in.

Then I let it drain.  Previously, I gave the same treatment to some Tabasco pepper plants, a Serrano pepper plant, and another Thai pepper plant.  Here the are in the Sunroom.

Now I'll treat them like houseplants.  I don't know if they will survive, or not.  The Tabasco and Serrano were already sad looking.  I don't think their soil was good.

Overwintering Hot Pepper Plants. 10.27.22

 Hor pepper plants can be overwintered.  Last year, I overwintered a Jalmundo (jumbo Jalapeño) plant.  To  do that, dig up the plant.  This one is a Cayenne pepper that has been harvested.

Now hose off all of the soil.  That removes insects and other harmful creatures.

Now prune the roots and top to a more compact shape.  The top pruning can be pretty radical.  I pruned to about 1/2" above nice looking nodes.  Each node can produce several branches when it starts growing again.

Now plant the pruned hot pepper plant in a clean container with good quality potting soil.   Water it in.  Let it drain.  Now store in bright,  cool, frost-free room.

Here it is with two friends, a Jalapeño and a Banana pepper plant.  Also a dendrobium orchid.

These will be allowed to dry out, with only slight moistening until late winter.  Now they are in the garage.  I will move them to a cool room, before it's too cold.

Another Frog. 10.27.22

These little frogs are all over the place.  Frogs eat insects.  So I'm happy they are here.

Cosmos. 10.20.22

 The cosmos finally bloomed.  It's nice having such perky flowers, this time of year.

Planting Garlic. 10.20.22

 Each year, I set aside enough if the garlic harvest to plant the crop for the following year.  Each bulb usually has six to ten cloves, which makes a row in my garden.  This year, I planted four rows of Music garlic (hardneck) and four rows of Lorz (softneck)  garlic.  Supposedly, softneck will keep longer although last year the hardneck Music kept nearly a year.

Music.  These have huge cloves.

Lorz.  Cloves are nice size but not gigantic, and there are more of them.

This is how deep I plant them, about 3 or 4 inches deep.

All planted.