NO FROST YET - SO THE PEPPER HARVEST IS STILL COMING IN

Thankfully, we've managed to stay above freezing so far.

One of the things that I always dreaded (besides my hair) was the first frost of fall. For gardeners, frost can be deadly, at least for your plants. The spring frosts can kill all of your seedlings overnight if you are not careful, but fall frosts are harder to deal with for me.

SO FAR, SO GOOD

When a frost comes late in the spring, it will kill the tiny plants in your garden if you don't protect them. Those small plants though often have less effort invested in them that the mature plants you've got in you garden at the end of the season. For me, being such a pepper fan, a lot of my favorites plants will keep producing and producing until they die, usually due to freezing temperatures.

The photo above is one branch of one of our Carolina Reaper plants. All of those red peppers would have never matured if the temperatures would have gotten a little colder in the past weeks. On some nights, the temperature dips down into the thirties, and thirty two degrees is freezing. Frost can happen at higher temps than freezing though, so we've been blessed thus far.

The Ghost Peppers are coming in hard too! This is a harvest from one day of picking my seventeen plants. It was actually a struggle for my boy to lift the box for the photos because it was so heavy. They will be lighter once we dehydrate them, but it is still an impressive quantity. If the temperatures stay high enough, we may have a few more harvests just like this, since there are plenty of green peppers still on the plants.

How is your garden doing? Is it done for the year yet or still holding on?