Basil and two young bell pepper plants

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[–]In-the-clouds 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

my older pepper plants are several years old now.

Wow!

[–]Musky[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

It's funny, I said a month ago how easy peppers were and now I have two young plants possibly killed by bugs and one by cats. Just waiting to see if they recover. I did sprout a dozen bell pepper plants though, so many more still live on.

The older plants are a lot hardier, I'm a big fan of overwintering, not that we get much winter here. And they also start producing right away in season.

[–]In-the-clouds 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

When I read your comment that pepper plants are easy to grow, I agreed: if I bought the plants already started. This is the first year I have started all my pepper plants from seed. I see poor germination of pepper seed compared to other plants. But once the pepper plants are established, they can be tough, enduring that hot sun and continuing to produce fruit even when it's 90-100 degrees, while tomato plants shut down in the heat.

There are unforeseen challenges, like bugs (and cats!) that can make any plant difficult to grow. I also had some cat damage already this year. When it was cold, I put my baby okra plants inside on a window sill and the next time I looked, the leaves had been chewed off!