{"id":625,"date":"2025-09-08T13:25:33","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T13:25:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/?p=625"},"modified":"2025-10-18T16:02:39","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T16:02:39","slug":"chili-peppers-are-perennials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/08\/chili-peppers-are-perennials\/","title":{"rendered":"Chili Peppers are Perennials"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Man, I am so pumped.  I just learned that chili peppers can live all year long ( if they don&#8217;t freeze ).  Growing hot peppers has become my absolute favorite thing about gardening.  I never seem to know what to do with other vegetables when they ripen.  It seems weird to me.  Like, here&#8217;s a bunch of tomatoes today.  Go do something with all of them.  Hurry!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But I ALWAYS have something to do with a chili pepper.  Put it in just about everything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Every fall though, my pepper plants would appear to die. But I just learned they actually the grow all year long! I have to thank the YouTube algorithm for that one. And in those videos, the pepper plants people have are enormous compared to mine. I suppose that&#8217;s what happens when you keep them growing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It turns out I&#8217;d been letting mine die through neglect.  At the end of the growing season I just assumed they all died so I stop taking care of them.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I was slightly disappointed to learn about this in September, because I had just let my pepper plants die. So this weekend I popped into my local hardware store&#8230; and to my great surprise, they still carried them as starts! I was able to buy 5 different varieties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Habanero<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Poblano<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Serrano<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ghost<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Jalapeno<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>And so here they are.  Felt so odd planting a garden in September with the same enthusiasm I have for gardening in the spring&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"771\" src=\"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/ChiliPeppersInSeptember-1024x771.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-627\" srcset=\"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/ChiliPeppersInSeptember-1024x771.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/ChiliPeppersInSeptember-300x226.jpg 300w, https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/ChiliPeppersInSeptember-768x578.jpg 768w, https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/ChiliPeppersInSeptember-1536x1157.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/ChiliPeppersInSeptember-2048x1542.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Man, I am so pumped. I just learned that chili peppers can live all year long ( if they don&#8217;t freeze ). Growing hot peppers has become my absolute favorite thing about gardening. I never seem to know what to do with other vegetables when they ripen. It seems weird to me. Like, here&#8217;s a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":627,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gardening"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=625"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":633,"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625\/revisions\/633"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}