[Market-farming] Potting up Pepper Starts

Road's End Farm organic87 at frontiernet.net
Thu May 7 21:33:22 EDT 2009


On May 7, 2009, at 9:02 PM, Allan Balliett wrote:

> You're not organic, are you Bill? -Allan in WV
>
>> I direct seed into 128 or 72 square-celled trays. 128 cells are
>> about 1"x1" and 3/4" deep. I grow the peppers out in these trays and
>> try to schedule plantings at about 6 weeks. Weather being
>> uncooperative, I've planted as late as 9 weeks successfully in these
>> trays. Not the best but if you have a greenhouse and manage water
>> and nutrients well, peppers can handle it.
>>

I am organic, and I grow peppers pretty much the same way, except I use 
72- cell inserts (72 cells, usually as a sheet of 12 semiperforated 
sixpacks, fit in a standard 11" x 22" tray). I use McEnroe potting 
soil, which is hard enough to find in NY, so you may not be able to get 
it in WV; and a fish emulsion-seaweed 3-2-2 mix for fertilizer. I agree 
that in a pinch you can hold them a while in 72's; but if I had more 
space I'd probably use 48's. I do use 48's for tomatoes.

-- Rivka; Finger Lakes NY, Zone 5 mostly
Fresh-market organic produce, small scale
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