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hey say your taste buds
change and develop every seven years,
which makes sense to me because
I haven’t always been a fan of spicy
foods. Now I can hardly stand a dish
of grits or a serving of chips and salsa
without the proverbial kick in the
pants from a peppery sensation on my tongue.
It appears I am not alone in that
sentiment. Lately, more than ever,
folks in East Cooper are enjoying the opportunity to scout
out pepper plants and grow them in their own backyard
gardens. Some do it just for the sport and the chance to
tell their neighbors; some look forward to creating scorch-
ing delicacies from these heat-packing vegetables.
“People use them for sauces and jellies – and each pep-
per has a different flavor to it,” commented Emme Nich-
ols, owner of Second Harvest Nursery, just up the road in
Georgetown. Visitors to Second Harvest in the spring and
early summer – roughly from mid-March until June – will
find scores of hot pepper plant varieties, from pimento
and tabasco to Hungarian wax, cayenne and, yes, ghost
By DenISe K. JAMeS
The PePPerTrend in easT CooPer
Some Like it
HOT!