YOU GUYS!
It's below freezing outside, but I legitimately have a garden update! My first Hatch chile turned red!
I honestly didn't even know that would happen; I thought they stayed green. 馃槀 It's a learning experience for me!
Here are my other two chiles. Grow, babies, grow! 馃挏
I just had to share because I saw that and got so excited. I WILL have yummy chiles from my balcony garden! 馃槂 Hooray!
In other chile news, I have been concerned that it had some sort of pest (from outside before I brought it in, I presume, and it thrived in the warm apartment). I pruned off several leaves that looked really infested, and it's been needing a lot more water or it gets droopy, fast. So about a week or so ago I was feeding it some crushed eggshells, and upon dumping them in, I discovered a spider had moved in to the pot because the shell dust caught on the web!
Thank you, spider fren, you eat all the chile pests you want! 馃槉