Poor Pepper Production and Pulling Puny Pod Producers

I finally snipped the red Fresno Chili off the plant today, and burst out laughing when I noticed it's size! It's a little over an inch tall. When I took the picture the other day, I was too lazy to crouch down and just shoved the camera down into the plant, so I didn't bother to look at the pepper in detail. It looked so much bigger in the picture... I'm still fighting DH over this little guy! Last night's dinner was a low effort affair. Paper plates n' all... I threw together Bacon Jack Chicken Sandwiches, minus the sandwich, grilled the peppers shown in my last post, and added to the chicken. Awesome! After seeing how wonderful Granny's pepper looked (and feeling ever so slightly jealous), I hacked all but one of the peppers off of my two Yolo Wonders. They look so sad, and taste just as bad! I believe the multi-colored one in the middle has blossom end rot, so this is yet another problem these poor plants are enduring. This is my last ditch effort in seeing if these plants recover and produce something edible. The one remaining Yolo still looks quite odd, but with no signs of rotting (yet), I'm leaving it in place to see what it does. I had been holding my breath, and crossing my fingers for this lonely little pepper on my Green Bell plant to show me how it's done... ...but this is what I discovered today. *sigh* I was fed up with my bean plants, so I yanked them all out (see previous posts for ranting). The brown stuff on the top of the pile were my snapdragons and verbena. Here is what I salvaged, but I'm not going to bother with the teeny curlycues. There should be enough here to serve with the boy's lunches tomorrow. Oh, and the LO yanked a baby cherry tomato and threw it in the bean pile teehee. Here are a few of the 360* beans I mentioned on Monday. I think they were confused... Sans beans. The SFG is looking pretty empty now, but I plan on spending the next 1.5 months enriching my soil, hoping that my second round of gardening will be more successful that the first one has been. Currently the squares are: back: mint, 3 empty, okra, okra, okra, fresno front: cherry tomato, empty, marigold, empty, 2 okra, empty, empty, Green bell. This is how the LO spent his time outside while I cleared out the beans. Ah, the highlight of my day...