I was very dissapointed early in the summer when my bell pepper plants kept blooming and nothing happened. The flowers died and I was left with no bell peppers. I deemed it as a failure crop and though I planted some bad seeds or something. I toyed with the idea of digging up the pepper plants and just tossing them, but for some reason (probably laziness...) I left them.
Mid September I glanced at the plants and to my suprise, there were at least a dozen peppers growing. This went against everything I had read. Every website I saw told me that peppers like hot weather and can't bear the frost. I must have planted some strange peppers because they thrived after the temperatures started dropping. I don't understand what happened, but I like it!
I think I read somewhere to give my plants the benefit of the doubt and never dig them up until they are dead. Probably the best advice I've followed in my rookie year of gardening. My green bean plants never really produced much either during the summer. However in September and October so far I have picked almost 10 lbs of green beans.
I have neglected this blog while I was crazy busy with projects around the house. Hopefully I can remember to document the rest of my successes and failures soon. Next spring we'll have another baby around here and I know my brain is already turning to mush. If I don't keep track of things now... I'll never remember!
