Let's pray for some warm, dry weather or it will be a tough year. Peppers are already expensive enough at the store, where you often pay $1.50 or more per piece of a red bell pepper.
More than 15 inches of rain dropped by recent hurricanes has brought diseases that have nearly wiped out the pepper crop in Colquitt County. Bacterial Leaf Spot, which causes the plants' leaves to fall off, and Anthracnose, which causes the pepper to the pods to rot, have attacked this year's crop.
