First harvest of the season

Greetings everyone!

Today, as funny as it may sound, I made my first harvest in my pepper garden, and it’s just one pepper fruit. Yes, that’s it.
Since it’s just one fruit, I shouldn’t be boastful, right?

Okay, if only you knew where I’m coming from, you’d tell me to make an effort so that this harvest appears in the world news. Lol.

I’m not going to bug you with my usual lamentations about how difficult it has been for me to simply grow my pepper to maturity. No, I’m here with good news.

Some weeks ago, I wrote about how I decided to buy pepper seedlings from the market when I noticed that the ones I was nursing myself were not catching up. In fact, I transplanted them, and just a few survived.

When I bought the seedlings, they were already grown, and some of them had fruits.
I planted (or rather, transplanted) them, and I knew that the fruits were going to fall off once they started struggling to catch up.
I watered them regularly just to help them survive, and just as predicted, during their struggling stage, most of the fruits fell off, leaving only one fruit remaining.

And the fruit I harvested today is the only surviving one among them.
When I plucked it today, I wished I had a museum to place it in because it’s the first pepper I’ve ever harvested since I started the fun of keeping a garden—and that’s been since the early days of 2024. I know I’ve harvested yams, and I have vegetables that I pluck regularly, but this is pepper!

Thanks for reading.

Photos are mine