Remember this giant?

Do you remember when I posted about the best plant in the garden? Well, it's getting down to the 40s now at night, and I couldn't bare to let this habanero plant die. It is a 2 year old plant and produced so many peppers for us. I had to try to save it. I dug up this little guy, and low and behold, he split into two pepper plants! Wow, he's gigantic. One of the plants were placed into a large bin. It was so heavy that I had to wheel him in my little green wagon.  I pruned down some of the branches because digging him up out of the ground was going to cause too much stress on this guy.

Here is the other half of this plant, it got so big, that it literally grew another tall stalk.  I mean just giant!!  This one went into a 5 gallon bucket.  I also had to trim some of the branches off.

Don't laugh... But this is how my front enclosed porch looks now.  LOL.  hahahaha okay you can laugh.  My husband thinks I'm crazy.  He's like, you can't save every plant in the vegetable garden.  My answer is, "why not".  We have the room, why not try and overwinter some of the pepper plants?  His response was, "some...not all".  :)

Here is a look from the other side of the porch.  At the far end is the potting bench the hubs built for me this summer.  Every shelf is now filled with bell pepper plants.  LOL.  I saved every plant that still had little peppers on them.  On the front left is the part 1 of the giant habanero.  See how many peppers are still on it?  How can I let this die in the frost?  It's still pumping out this hot babies like crazy!  My hope is that both of these plants survive through the winter on my porch and that I can replant them outside in the garden come spring.  Crossing my fingers!

Gorgeous Green Bell Peppers!!

Even though we are well into October, I'm still harvesting gorgeous vegetables. Among them are those infamous bell peppers. I gave up on leaving them on the plant to turn red / orange. I planted 3 kinds of bell. Orange, red and green, and I never saw any of them turn orange. Only 1 turned red. I think the fall brought in the cold weather so fast that the peppers didn't know what hit them. Does anyone know, do the peppers change color after you pick them?? Or must they ripe on the plant? Since I'm not a fan of green bells, I gave this whole harvest to my friend Ruth. She'll enjoy more than I will. But shhh!! don't tell my husband! He loves green bells.

See what others are harvesting at Daphne's Dandelions!

A Nasty Surprise

Last week I posted about my harvest of my one and only  bell red pepper. Of all of my pepper plants, only one pepper turned red! It's such a beauty!  So we couldn't wait to harvest it and eat it.

I cut it open and just look at the nasty surprise I found.  UGH!!  There was a black mold of some sort all inside the pepper.  My one and only red bell pepper and we didn't even get to taste it.  Yuck!!  Has this ever happened to you before?

Today's harvest

I picked 2 more green bell peppers today. I realized that I am just not patient enough for them to get bigger or to turn orange / red. I'm growing 3 kinds of bell peppers. Green, Red and Orange. I never realized how long it takes for those peppers to turn color! This harvest is going to my husband's co-worker. They've been begging him for fresh veggies! :)

For more Monday harvests go to Daphne's Dandelions.

My First Bell and 100th Post Giveaway!

I was so extremely excited to pick our first green bell pepper! It's a beauty! It's funny, I don't even like green peppers but the hubs loves them. I only like the sweeter bells, red, orange, yellow. We have red and orange bells growing too, but they aren't ready yet. Anyone know how long it takes to turn color?
It's also my 100th Post! In celebration of my 100th post, I'm having a little giveaway. The prize is an assortment of seeds, and a Sierra Club notebook, it's a great garden journal to keep track of your garden. All you need to do is comment below and I'll choose a random winner. It's that simple! Enter by August 25th 11:59pm EST.