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A Sample Pepper Harvest
The peppers were planted late, also, but they are producing fairly. I learned that I can plant my peppers twice as dense in a raised bed next spring. I had never planted them is a 5′ x 16′ raised bed before, so I wanted to leave them plenty of room to expand. Lesson learned: they don’t need the room that I left them. I had planted 3 to 4 plants across the 5′ length, only about 10 rows along the 16′ length. Next spring I plan to start twice as much pepper seeds – that means 144 plants instead of 72 seedlings.
The large red peppers in the center top are Cubanelle peppers, a very nice sweet pepper. The orange peppers in the top right are Tequila Sunrise, a mildly hot pepper. The long red peppers under the Tequilas are Jimmy heirlooms, a nice sweet, thin skinned pepper. Under them are Cayenne hot peppers. To the left of the small cayenne are a red and a green heirloom jalapeno pepper. The seeds are only viable from the red, mature jalapeno. Under and next to them are more cayenne peppers, including 1 green one. In the bottom left corner is another Tequila Sunrise. The yellow/green peppers on the lower left side are Sweet Banana peppers – heirlooms. Above them on the left are red Chili peppers. I originally got these seeds from a dried chili pepper at Kroger. Finally, the orange pepper on the upper left corner is a Golden Marconi, a sweet pepper. My Golden Marconi peppers did not grow as large as normally this year. I am hoping that the seeds are still genetically good and that the smaller size was due to new, not very fertile soil. I will plant these seeds next year and if the peppers do not grow to their usual larger size, I may have to purchase new heirloom seeds.
Next year I will not be growing 2 varieties of peppers that I had previously grown for years: Brown Bell and Pimento peppers. This year, they were stunted and the peppers that grew to somewhat maturity were afflicted with what appears to be anthracnose. I tossed these peppers and plants in the burn pile – they will NOT be composted so as to not spread what ever it is that is afflicting the peppers.