What types do you grow?
Once you cut them back do you change how you feed them?
I'm trying the same thing with some sweet pepper plants that have pooped out in the Florida summer. A little trimming, placed in afternoon shade, and then see if they put out some new growth for me in their second year. Meanwhile I got hit with some caterpillars and aphids, and had to step up the neem/spinosad/inspections. I had to blast some ants off one of the peppers with a hose after spraying with peppermint soap, cayenne, and neem solution.
So I'm hoping I can nurse them along until fall and get some more peppers on them while I wait for the new seedlings to grow up. I'm in Orlando, Florida (9B) so we don't really get a frost more than a night or two for which I cover or bring container plants inside. Almost wish we did get a bit of a winter in order to grow more cool season crops that like that cold snap (broccoli, etc.)
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