How you feeling? HOT HOT HOT

One of these things is not like the others...

My cayenne peppers have started to turn colors, beginning with the very first pepper!

 Blam!  The tip of the pepper is the color the entire fruit will be soon.  I don't know how I missed this when I was gardening the other day... I guess I was too distracted by the enormous tomato plants. 

 Here's a shot of the next pepper down on the plant. As you can see, the very tip is starting to turn a brownish red.  Once a pepper turns fully bright red I'll be picking it and stinging it along the top of a window to dry out.  Then I'll use a food processor to chop up everything but the stem and voila, homegrown crushed red pepper flakes.

Stay cool,

Christine