Yeah, but what do I do with them later?
I grew tabasco peppers a couple of years ago and had so many I had no idea what to do with them all. Wound up stringing them by putting some serano, cyan, and some kind of cherry bomb peppers into a necklace-like arrangement and put them into the dehydrator. When they were done I decorated them with some dried herbs and gave them away for Christmas presents. I also put a few whole into small, fancy bottles along with some good olive oil and put ribbons on them. We didn’t have much money for Christmas, and since our extended family usually exchange home-made presents or food items, this went over well.
Re: Your Habs.
Do you have a local Mexican Restaurant? In the years we grow them, we take them down to our local ‘Mr. Peppers’ and the guys use them in salsa (sparingly we for us Gringos) and other dishes. They always love to get them.
It’s also just a dern pretty plant! Pot a few up and bring them indoors for the winter (after a good spray with the hose and a little squirt of insecticide.) A sunny window will be just fine and you might get some blooms ahead of time to get a jump on the next season. :)
It blows my mind that pepper plants are perennials in the right growing zones.