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  • From: Mike Rock <mikerock AT mhtc.net>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [Market-farming] Peppers/Epsom salts
  • Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2010 15:20:54 -0500

I finally found the book upstairs. Dick Raymond's 'Joy of Gardening'.
His comments on peppers:

1. At planting time, add some sulphur to the soil. Peppers are acid soil loving and sulphur lowers the pH.

2. Spray with Epsom Salts when they start to blossom. Epsom salts are a wonderful source of magnesium, which peppers need to set fruit. I mix a teaspoonful of Epsom salts in a spray bottle fulled with lukewarm water. Shake well and spray the mixture in the leaves and blossoms when the plants first blossom, and again ten days later. The leaves quickly turn dark green, and soon after, I have an abundance of peppers.


I have followed the Epsom salt advice for many years and have always had an abundance of peppers, as he says.

This year is the first pepper failure I have ever had. When I went out last night there were fresh blossoms, the first since early July. The nights are cooler and the days shorter now, so we will see who wins, the pepper plants or the first frosts.

Most respectfully,
Mike Rock





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