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Posted by toomanypotatoes 5 (My Page) on Fri, Jul 10, 09 at 20:16
| Greetings,
My Z5 'middle of the mitten' garden is looking pretty good. Beans and cole crops are great. Tomatoes 'ok', but the peppers are not happy campers. Planted out June 1 with a thermal row cover. Poor guys are just sitting there. It's been cool...great weather to weed in so no complaints really. Just curious as to whether anyone else in the area is having pepper issues. |
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RE: Puny Peppers?
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| I was coming here to see if others had similar issues. Most of my pepper plants are miniature bells. I've grown them in the past and they don't get very big. They seem to be doing 'ok', I'm getting some fruit. However, I have a couple of yellow banana plants (All of mine were started from seed) that were free with my seed order. I thought these were supposed to be bigger. One has never gotten bigger than maybe six inches? I kept row cover on them for 4-6 weeks after planting. The other looks about the same as the baby belles. I have a cherokee purple tomato plant that is still only about knee high. I'm beginning to think the seeds were labeled wrong or I accidentally switched the label with one of my container plants! It's just been too cold and wet this summer, I think. Last night I actually covered my basil because it was down to 60 and I didn't want it to turn black (which it's been known to do in the 50s). The cucumbers, lettuce and chard are the only things really thriving. |
RE: Puny Peppers?
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spray blooming pepper plants with a mixture of 1 tablespoon epsom salt to 1 gallon of water, repeat in 10 days.
also crush and grind egg shells and work into soil around stem.
good luck |
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