I planted a pepper patch this summer in June, planted 8 jalapeno, 4 banana, 4 habanero, 4 green chili and 4 Tabasco. This is the first year that I have planted hot peppers so don’t really know much about them. A lesson to learn is only plant two of each never four, they just keep on multiplying. I have given them away, froze them, pickled them and even tried to eat some but they are way too hot for me except the banana and the jalapeno. I have made salsa and even tried a new recipe it is a no water bath with a hot brine, really good. Next year only two plants even if it is the sweet ones that I like, I have saved plenty of seeds to swap with. So who ever wants some seeds let me know. I even have a mystery pepper that came up in the middle of the patch between the banana and the jalapeno. It is red when fully ripe and hotter then a jalapeno but not as hot as a orange habanero. I have saved seeds from this one also. Here it is September and we have peppers every other day to pick, thank goodness for my next door neighbor who loves hot peppers he is getting them. I have sweet potato’s and jack beans and broccoli and spinach left in the garden, I just planted garlic yesterday. Now is the time to get all the weeds and tomato vines and green beans vines up and out to the berm. This picture was taken in June, would like to add a new one but can’t.
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TangoFlowers wrote:
Congratulations on the bumper crop!
If I were you I would plant 4 plants of the sweet peppers next year, and just 2 each of the hot types. Better to have too many peppers than not enough.
Sweet peppers are more likely to get eaten by wildlife because they aren’t hot, so it is a good idea to overplant them slightly so that if wildlife gets to them, you still have enough to eat!
Also in general with veggie gardens a little bit of overplanting is wise if you have the space, just in case a disease or pest problem, or weather problem kills some of your plants or reduces your yield.
Posted on 12 Sep 12 (8 months ago)
grandmother wrote:
Thanks TangoFlowers but really I need to plant more sweet potato’s and Russet potato’s, only planted 9 sweet potato slips and two one pound bags of Russet’s. I have lost all my squash to the squash bore, well almost all there is one lone surviving plant.Next year I’m going to plant the squash that is resistant to the squash bore, it is called the squash of many names but here is one of them. Tatume squash or Calabsh it comes from South America and Mexico, the only problem I could see is that is has a long running vine but I have plenty of room. It is kind of like my jack beans,except they are growing up are 10 to 12 feet tall and haven’t had any insect bother them. I’m saving seeds so if you want some send me your address in my e-mail. It is epeavey@windstream.net I’m looking for sweet pepper seeds like the cubanella, or the Italian pepporinci so if you want to swap seeds let’s do so. Ellen from Georgia
Posted on 12 Sep 12 (8 months ago)
TangoFlowers wrote:
You would probably be able to successfully interplant pepper plants in the same space as sweet potatoes. What you do is plant the peppers in the spaces between the sweet potatoes.
I did it and it worked out great, because the sweet potatoes stay low as a ground cover, they keep weeds off the roots of the pepper plants, and reduce water loss in the pepper bed.while the pepper plants are small you do have to move the vines around once in a while to keep them from growing over the peppers, but in 4 to 6 weeks the pepper plants grow tall enough to get out of the way of the sweet potato vines without your help, and you get 2 crops from the same area! :)
Thanks very much for the seed trade offer. I don’t think I will be growing hot peppers from seed anytime soon. Maybe someone else here on Folia will be interested though!
Good luck finding someone to swap with. Have you tried clicking on “seed swaps” to use the Folia site’s seed swap matcher? :)
Look here for tips on how to find someone to swap with:
http://myfolia.com/help_articles/45-how-do-i-find-someone-to-swap-with
Posted on 12 Sep 12 (8 months ago)
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