This post is about peppers. The first summer at our house I planted peppers in various places. I had put a few up against our west facing stucco wall. As winter came all my peppers died from the cold except for the ones against this wall. After some light internet based research I found out the peppers (and tomatoes) are perennial plants. They live for multiple years! The thing is they are tropical plants. The cold kills them for most of us in the USA, which is why we consider them annuals. However as I learned by accident in San Jose (Zone 9b) with protection your peppers can be perennial. The stucco wall absorbs heat during the day and radiates it back at night, making a microclimate for the peppers. So if you are a lazy gardener like me, plant some peppers around your south or southwest facing walls. You will get peppers almost year round, and save yourself some planting every year. I have one plant (Hawaiian Sweet Hot) that is in it’s third growing season, check it out…
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