How to properly winterize your pepper plants

 Hello everyone,

First I would like to say thank you for taking the time to read our blog on what we do on the homestead/farm.  We are very thankful for each view and subscriber that we get. And with that being said our newest and latest blog is about how to winterize pepper plants.

If you are anything like me, I had no clue that pepper plants were perennials and could be winterized.  My mind was blown.  Every year I would buy new pepper plants and plant them because I had no clue that pepper plants would grow year round.  Like I said my mind was blown.

So last year I decided to try winterizing my plants and yes I know the winter has come and gone but I wanted to do it first before I wrote about it.  And drum roll please, it worked and I have 3 pepper plants that are ready and two of them already have leaves on them.  So the next steps are what I did to winterize them.

Before the first frost last year I went out to my garden and harvested all of the peppers not matter how small they were.  Then I began trimming the branches to where there were 3 v's on the plant.  So the main part of the plant that branched out to a v was one of the v's.  The other two v's were the nest most dominant branching on my plants off of the first v.  So one v on each branch making it 3 v's.  

After all the trimming of the branches and all of the leaves off I then carefully dug the plants up.  I tried my best to keep the roots intact.  Then I put some potting soil in pots and transplanted the plants into them.  Afterwards I watered the plants.  And then final step was to bring the plants inside until the last frost was over.  

Now I started with several plants but only three survived the process.  Make sure you water throughout the winter so that the plants can survive.  I am not sure if the lack of humidity in my house hurt the plants that died but this was a trial and error and my first time.  At then end of this year I will try it again and hopefully will have a nice greenhouse to put them in.  

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