Well, it took some creative time-management in the middle of my busy work week, but I was able to finish transplanting the rest of our assortment of chile pepper plants. As you can see above from the close-up view of the Jamaican Hot Pepper plant, a Capsicum chinense related to the habanero, these plants are pretty healthy and vigorous. This pic was taken the day after transplant, and no sign of wilting thus far.

After trying a hot sauce made with the Lemon Drop pepper, we just had to have some of this C. baccatum beauty in our collection of growing plants. The plant is supposed to get fairly big, so we paired them in one of the biggest containers we had. We can’t wait to see how well this one will grow.

If this pepper plant looks funny to you, it should. It had a rather unfortunate run-in with our house canine who must have thought it was a chewy treat of some kind because she chewed the tops off both plants. As these happen to be Cayenne pepper plants, it’s a good thing for her that there were no peppers there or it might have been the shortest and most dyspeptic bout of misbehaving she would have done in her life thus far.

As you can see, she sorta ate the top half…but managed not to eat some of the branches or disturb the root structure at all. So, I believe these babies will recover and continue to grow just nicely…along with moving this container a little further out of her greedy chewable reach.

The growing season has just started for us, so stay tuned for more from the Levinson pepper garden as it develops!

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