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After last week's hard freeze, I needed to clean up the garden bed where my sweet peppers had grown this year. As the weather started cooling off earlier this fall, I'd covered that bed with a sheet of clear plastic, to help keep the pepper plants growing a little longer. Every year, I get the biggest harvest of peppers right at the end of the season. By covering the bed with plastic, the plants live a few weeks longer, which gives a whole different "generation" of peppers a chance to grow to edible size.
In the photo, you can see the peppers I picked this weekend. Those fruits right against the plastic were frost-damaged, but most were just fine. This will give me plenty of peppers for use fresh right away, and the rest I'll cut up and freeze to enjoy all winter long.
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