RIP Aconcagua Pepper

Oh well.

I came back from our honeymoon and all the peppers on the plant were dead and the leaves were droopy and falling off/nibbled to bits.  I'm thinking bugs, based on all the nibbles.  Aconcagua peppers are not really common in Maryland- I doubt I'd try them again. 

See you all in 2 days,

Christine

There's a fungus among us.

See that white powdery nonsense on the sad leaves?  That would be a moldy, nasty fungus.  I'll be spraying it with a vegetable-friendly fungicide, but I already had to pull up one of my zucchinis because it had such a bad fungal infection.

This kind of fungus can occur when it rains a lot and the leaves get wet in a humid environment.  The humidity prevents the leaves from drying out and hairy leaves like pumpkin, zucchini, and cucumber get moldy and then die.   Heavy rains followed by humidity?  Why, you just described Maryland's climate to the T.

Stay dry,

Christine