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Pastimes : Gardening and Especially Tomato Growing

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To: robert b furman who wrote (3152)	4/26/2020 11:14:01 PM
From: sense	of 3495

I love that... Short of moving to the tropics and growing bell peppers on trees like apples ? Here's a youtube of a UK corner "hot house" with overwintered peppers. And a reasonable sounding "how to"... which I assumed was from a Cali girl... but is another from the UK. Google "overwintering peppers" and you get a lot of hits like this one. Improving the harvest is a part of the appeal... But here up north "If you’ve done it right, you should get your first fruits a full month ahead of plants sown that spring"... is really the point. I grow Mirasol peppers... which I hope will really take to it. Far and away a favorite for "hot enough", but mostly "not too hot for company"... and with a really great flavor. The seed provider is one I just found today, but they have a great variety. I used to buy plants at a local grocery store here... but the guy providing the crazy variety of heirloom peppers and tomato plants to them died last year... leaving me growing only whatever Walmart or Home Depot had... Expanding my view this year... looking for sources. Grow chilis... jalapenos... bells... bananas... cayenne... hungarians for paprika... but, most will end up being ready only near the end of the season... with a single cropping only... The Thai peppers are appealing, but haven't ever had them work well for me here. Maybe they just need more of a head start with overwintering providing that ? I'd like to have a longer season with fresh peppers available on demand... Here's an excited pepper grower... doing his own trials... worth watching for that focus and experience of varieties. But he's not getting bells because not enough sunlight... plants too closely spaced... some showing nutrition problems or powdery mildew... too much humidity in overly tight space without air flow... But some of his still produce nice crops in spite of that ? My more churlish peppers might need more shade, more humidity, less wind ?

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