Do you live in a humid or dry environment? When I lived in Colorado, it was dry enough to pick them and hang them upside down til they dried, then I roughly ground/crumbled the leafy stuff and stored it in bottles or bags. The cayennes stayed hanging somewhere, they were pretty. Now I live on the East Coast and it’s too humid (I avoid AC) to hang dry them, so I either do a slow dry on a cookie sheet in a low heat oven, or (more likely) I rough chop stuff, wet it, and freeze it in ice cube trays, then store the cubes in bags in the freezer.