Cool! I am not familiar with those peppers, but I have a few that I save from year to year as well. Container gardens are fine, @Daniel B Cooper. Many of us don't have the room to grow otherwise, or don't have the physical ability to put stuff in the ground. If I didn't have my wife to do a lot of the low work, I would be all, or mostly, in containers as well.
any suggestions on which wild plant cuttings ... used in compost pile will help deter vegetable garden pests
Hubby didn't want to get more chickens either, but I talked him into it about the protein and how good eggs are for you. Also, what if stores run out. We only have 3 hens now that something killed 4 of them over last 4 years. Lose one about every year and half. 3 hens are plenty for us.We always have a dozen or more eggs in fridge.
I don't really have any ideas. Some use comfrey and rhubarb leaves, but they are not wild in most places.
Teresa L, the following link gives you an idea of plants that repel garden pests. I know your question was about compost. Maybe you can use it as a guide. https://drecampbell.com/plants-repel-garden-insect-pests/
thanks for the link...i am gonna try to get chicken peas going for the roots...and new Zealand spinach
We normally put row covers on the plants for a while. This time we took them out and we saw the leaves getting eaten by baby caterpillars. We had to pick them off the kale.
You can also dry eggs. If you dry them at 160 F. or above, you don't have to cook them first, but if your dehydrator doesn't go that high, you must scramble them prior to drying, but you can use them in baked goods either way. I suppose you could rehydrate them and eat them plain, but we do not.