Hello and welcome back on my blog! Climate has changed, temperatures have dropped: it is winter already! With such a cold and rainy weather I started taking in all the plants that I want to save for next year, starting with my eureka pepper!
Many people think that chili peppers are just seasonal plants, and it is just their destiny to die when the seasons change. But that's wrong! You can keep your beloved chili pepper plant alive for several years if you take it inside your home (or you put it into a greenhouse, or at least you cover it with a TNT cover) when the temperatures fall under 10°C.
In the building where I live, in winter, the stairway becomes a beautiful garden with all the plants that the many families who live here, bring in for winter! Personally I like to show off with weird shaped or colorful peppers! Also that's so much fun for my neighbour's cat, who usually spends much time playing on the stairs, because it feels like playing in a garden!
But where is chili peppers there also come aphids -ALWAYS: somehow they know it and eventually they'll come. So this year I tried to plant inside, in another vase, tagetes or marigolds, and as you see, they might be already be sprouting. This summer they did wonders in keeping aphids away from my peppers and I didn't need to spray them not even once!
Actually I planted in the same vase marigolds and arugula (I love arugula and in winter I so miss it, so I tried to make them grow together) so I do not really know who is actually sprouting there!
Let's wait and see!
Thank you for reading and wish you all a lovely new week! 👩🌾🌱
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