# @thecottagepeach on Instagram - **Type:** Image - **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DIl_8FPOdgU - **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/63477931-thecottagepeach-instagram - **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/9beee4b27c.jpg - **Posted:** 2025-04-18T15:56:27.000+00:00 - **Account Owner:** Dagny Kream (@thecottagepeach) — https://gondola.cc/thecottagepeach ## Caption I completely messed up drying my garden peppers - so here’s what not to do. If you like me think “this’ll be a fun way to spice things up in the garden!” and decide to dry your hot peppers, you can dry them a few different ways...but if you’re going to string them up like this, it can be kind of risky. It probably didn’t help that after I hung them up to dry I completely forgot about them for like four months so when I took them down I sort of expected disaster - but it was so much worse than I imagined. Basically bigger peppers like these have too much water in them to dry them slowly unless you’re in a really hot and dry climate, so if you don’t cut them open that water gets trapped inside and molds. It probably would have worked better if I had at least cut a small hole in each one before I strung it up. Peppers should be completely hard and brittle, not flexible or bendable, before being stored, and using a dehydrator or oven can ensure they dry fast and evenly. Some of the peppers were okay, but most of them had a little mold somewhere and I know this probably goes without saying but if you find mold, just throw them away. Don’t try to salvage them by cutting off the moldy part. Anyway there’s always next year, right? #gardening #gardenharvest #harvestingvegetables #gardeninspiration #gardenlove #gardenproduce #growyourownfood #growfood #growingfood ## Stats - **Views:** 0 - **Likes:** 446 - **Shares:** 0 - **Comments:** 13 ## Tags gardeninspiration, growingfood, gardening, growyourownfood, gardenlove, harvestingvegetables, growfood, gardenproduce, gardenharvest --- Copyright (c) Gondola