CAYENNE PEPPERS MAKE COMEBACK AFTER HARD FREEZE

(Ed.'s Note: One of our seven readers sent us this photo of a cayenne pepper plant that managed to survive the hard freeze that decimated gardens in mid-February and is now producing a full crop of the long green peppers which turn red when ripe. In a note, he said that the uprooted stem on the bottom of the photo was all that was left of another cayenne pepper plant that was growing alongside the other which managed to sprout as warm weather set in. Now the recovering plant is flowering and producing fruit. "I just pruned it a bit and watered it, and it came back," he wrote. He said that before the freeze he used the peppers to make a fierce salsa.)