So at this point I have two established pepper plants, a lipstick pepper and a Italian Bull Horn pepper. The Lipstick has some nice fruits, so I thought it was time to pick a few.
Look at those nice big green peppers. Now lipstick peppers are generally picked at the red stage, but even with our heat wave there is no guarantee they’ll get that ripe, and I just wanted to check for texture anyways.
Quality control!
One of my local ladies was chilling on the plant, which is always nice to see.
Right. So three nice green peppers. One minor problem- there was a small hole in the top of one of them. Might as well cut it open just to make sure right?
Fuck cabbage moths. Just… I hate those little bastards so much. Needless to say this pepper ended up in the compost.
Also- since when do ‘cabbage’ moths eat peppers! ARGGG.
Well It’s a good thing I bought B.t. for the tree collard. Turns out I’m going to have to use it for the dang peppers too because life’s not fair and caterpillars suck.
In the end the peppers were ok but too bitter. I’ll try to let the rest ripen, or make sure to cook them first. It’s ok- these were picked as quality control, so it’s ok that they weren’t perfect.
But seriously I hate cabbage moths.
The Neanderthal Gardens 
If I were not too pompous to cuss, I would do so here! That is so infuriating! I know that they ‘can’ eat solanaceous plants, but I thought that they rarely do.I do not remember them ever ruing any of the fruits.