(06-03-2025, 08:05 PM)FCD Wrote: ...
I grew Scorpion peppers the year before last and had a ton of them, but right as they were ready to harvest something came on our front porch and munched every last one of them. I only got about 3-4 which I dried...and they're HOT!
"Something"? You didn't hear anything running away from the meal screaming like a little girl, like it's head was on fire and it's ass was catching? Didn't find anything laying dead in the yard, burned crispy?
Seriously, birds are the only mobile critters I know of that are not affected by the capsicum. Crows, for example, could decimate a garden full of pretty colorful baubles hanging from bushes.
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