I'm wondering because the white flies left my evil little hot
peppers alone this year, but went after the sweeter peppers.
And I have more evil hot peppers than I know what to do with :-).

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Chris

I didn't know that hot peppers were evil! I rather like them in chili.

Actually, all of the vegetables and fruits that we like, and that have
strong flavours, like cabbage or hot peppers or mustard or radishes, have
their strong flavours because of chemical defenses developed by the plants
against insects.

One way to make use of them is to liquidize them and spray them on poorly
defended plants. Another way, often more effective because it lasts longer,
is to grow these plants in mixed beds (e.g. hot peppers next to sweet
peppers, and no two sweet peppers being next to each other). If you have a
very diverse bed or garden, with a healthy mix of protective plants, you
will see very few insect pests. From the insect's perspective, the density
of acceptable food will be too low and there'd be too many noxious (to the
insect) plants.

If you have so many hot peppers that you can't eat them all, process the
surplus into a home made bug spray, and save the seeds to plant next year.

Cheers,

Ted

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R.E. (Ted) Byers, Ph.D., Ed.D.
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