This is a pepper plant. I ripped up paper sandwich bags to top the soil and covered that with some mulch. You could probably use grocery bags and ripped up cardboard instead but oddly, I had none. The real heat of the Texas summer hasn’t hit yet but so far it seems to be helping me space out how often I need to water, so instead of watering about once every couple of days I can go with maybe twice a week. It seems to be working well so far.
Update 1/23/25: This did not work out how I’d hoped. Texas summers are infamous for a reason and I spent a lot of last year schlepping outside to water, and water. Therefore despite my efforts at water conservation it makes more sense to set up sprinklers and a timer system this year. Plus use a whole lot of mulch if I can get it and some way more drought resistant plants. That’s the plan.
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