Any of you eat/grow/planning to grow hot peppers?

I do jalapenos, haberneros and regular bell peppers every year.

Ive fermented some of my habs and made mango habanero hot sauce. The majority of them got dehydrated into powder.

We grow jalapeños and also did orange peppers this summer. Orange peppers took forever to grow anything substantial, but jalapeños grow like weeds.

Hot banana peppers, jalapenos and Tabasco heritage

i grew a bunch of hot bananas this past summer. Very hot and good. Will do more this year.

being a ole country boy I grow mostly long cayenes bell and bananna and have great luck with all of em cept the bell. An ole baw in town told me the secret to big healthy bells is epsom salt and boy was he right. I was scared to put too much but noticed a BIG improvement

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Has anyone kept a pepper plant multiple years

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Some people will cut them back low, and bring them in for the winter. They will produce a ton more in their second year. My habanero plant is still hanging on by a thread, and I'd say if we dont get another hard freeze, the plant will start growing again in spring.

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Ive fermented some of my habs and made mango habanero hot sauce.

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Exactly what I did.

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The majority of them got dehydrated into powder.

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Now there's a damn good idea I need to remember.

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I am wanting to grow some peppers, herbs, and tomatoes this year. Any advice for any of the above?

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Put in tomatoes as soon as you can if you live in La. where our summers get stupid hot. My tomato plants are always done by July when heat, humidity and fungal issues take their toll on the plants.

Peppers like poblano, bell, sweet banana----mild peppers will do well and make peppers fairly early in the season. If growing the hot peppers, it seems the hotter the pepper variety, the longer they take to make any fruit, but when they do, they go nuts.

Some herbs do well in the ground and others really should be in pots. Stuff like mint grows and will take over a large part of ground space as it spreads, so it is best in a pot to contain it.

Parsley is a cool weather crop and dies quickly when the weather heats up. Sweet Basil, rosemary, thyme, oregano, etc. all do well in our summer heat. The only problem with Sweet Basil is when it starts to send up flower shoots that need to be pruned to keep them growing well. You will need to do that at least once a week when they start showing up.

Tomatoes need to be staked for best production and I've had to stake pepper plants too when they get loaded with fruit and the stems and branches get heavy and wanting to fall over. I use 2x2's 7 ft. long for tomato stakes and drive them in the ground about 1 ft. or more.

Also with tomato plants you need to pick off the suckers as they grow. If you are not familiar with this terminology, google it to see what I'm talking about and act accordingly. Oh, and you can put the suckers in some potting soil and many times they will survive and form a new tomato plant.

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If you use a dehydrator in the house just know that the hotter the pepper, the more potent the air gets with vapors.

It didn't bother me, but my wife and daughter could not go into the kitchen when I was dehydrating some ghost peppers a couple years ago for crushed pepper flakes. I had to move the dehydrator outside on the back porch and let the kitchen air out before they could go back in.

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Not sure of the difference, but I just used the oven on very low heat. Dried some ghost peppers this way and had no issue with vapor.