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- From: "Dalew Farms" <dalew AT phonenet.ca>
- To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [Market-farming] peppers
- Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2010 06:59:07 -0400
Well, not that other people's misery makes me feel
better, but after reading this thread about other folks lack of peppers this
year, I don't feel so bad about our own pepper crop failure, or near
failure. I've got a similar story to report on peppers as
others.
This year, we grew more peppers than ever, and did
a better job of starting the plants. (We transplanted into 36's a second
time in the greenhouse, instead of putting the plants out straight from
50's) We put better looking transplants out than we ever have
before. Planted onto some red plastic, and some black plastic mulch.
Haven't really seen a difference there. (although did get more early
tomatoes on the red plastic) We have great looking pepper plants all
season, but had very few flowers all season and even few peppers.
Like was mentioned before, I do have some peppers
coming on the Lipstick variety, which I tried for the first time
this year. I also noticed the other day that I have a few late
peppers coming on Carmen, although not nearly as heavy a yield on them as
previous years. Other than those, most of my sweet pepper varieties don't
even have a pepper on them. We'll probably salvage what we can from the
patch next week to try to get enough to put into our CSA, so if there is one
variety or anothe that stands out I'll try to report in with that. This
was really disapointing this year, because we've had 2 years of terribly cold
and wet weather before this year, so we had been hoping for an awesome pepper
crop once we finally got some heat! Turns out last years crop was much
much better!
I did notice though, that in my area on a couple of
tours I went to, that there were some peppers on the plants. Both of these
situations the amount of pepper plants being grown was pretty small, about the
amount of an avid backyard gardener, the plants looked kind of so-so, but they
did have a half decent amount of peppers on them. My guess so far is that
since we did a "better" job on our pepper transplants this year, we ended up
having ours at the stage where they should have been flowering when it was very
hot at night, and we lost our crop, and that these other nearby gardens did get
a crop of peppers because their plants must have hit a different weather pattern
and flowered when we had some cooler nights!?!?
Anyways, thanks for starting this thread, I don't
feel alone on this one anymore!
Dave
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[Market-farming] Peppers,
stonecirclefarm tds.net, 09/09/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] Peppers,
Mike Rock, 09/09/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] Peppers,
stonecirclefarm tds.net, 09/09/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] Peppers,
Mike Rock, 09/10/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] Peppers (and tomato flavor), Road's End Farm, 09/10/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] Peppers,
Mike Rock, 09/10/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] Peppers,
stonecirclefarm tds.net, 09/09/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] Peppers, Road's End Farm, 09/09/2010
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- Re: [Market-farming] Peppers, cjmaness AT juno.com, 09/09/2010
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[Market-farming] peppers,
Shawnee Flowerfarmer, 09/09/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] peppers,
Jay Sleichter, 09/09/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] peppers,
Dalew Farms, 09/10/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] peppers,
Bill Shoemaker, 09/10/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] peppers,
Shawnee Flowerfarmer, 09/10/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] peppers, Bill Shoemaker, 09/11/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] peppers,
Shawnee Flowerfarmer, 09/10/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] peppers,
Bill Shoemaker, 09/10/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] peppers,
Dalew Farms, 09/10/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] peppers,
Pamela Crowe, 09/09/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] peppers, Shawnee Flowerfarmer, 09/10/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] peppers,
Jay Sleichter, 09/09/2010
- [Market-farming] Peppers, Two Onion Farm, 09/10/2010
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[Market-farming] peppers,
Burke Farm, 09/10/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] peppers,
Richard Robinson, 09/10/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] peppers, William H Shoemaker, 09/10/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] peppers, Ken Bezilla, 09/13/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] peppers,
Richard Robinson, 09/10/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] Peppers,
Mike Rock, 09/09/2010
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