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  • From: Clansgian AT wmconnect.com
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Seed Saving
  • Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2005 19:27:56 EST




> In my experience this is most critical with peppers.

I'd have to ditto that. The flowers are small and they are utterly dependent
on insects for pollination and so the odds are not good to keep the separate.
And you can just as easily ruin the hot ones as the sweet ones. I've
discarded lines of magnificient hot peppers because I grew them too near
sweet ones
and they lost their fire ... forever. Fortunately for home use, you need
amazingly few pepper plants to bury yourself in them. The thing that has
worked
best for my gardens is to concentate on having other flowering vegetable
plants between the sparce and widespread plots of peppers. That way the
various
insects get their pollen baskets full before they get to the next type of
pepper. Pepper seeds are something I buy most of, but I have a few OP
varieties
I' ve managed to keep going.




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