Comments on: Sweet Bell Peppers

By: Gordon Baulsaquio

Gordon Baulsaquio — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 01:03:21 +0000

Cold weather stunted my bell peppers here in the Northeast USA. They neer grew for a month and it still is cool and rainy every day. I pulled the peppers and foound some bugs on the roots. I sprayed them off and replanted them in large black pot. I pured some comfrey tea in the new soil and mix in a good dose of wood ash and some tiny worms came flyng up out of the dirt? After that we finally got warm weather and they grew likw crazy and produce tons of ppeppers.

By: Ulanda

Ulanda — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 00:31:27 +0000

Hi there,
I am about to grow peppers for the first time, actually everything I am growing is for the first time,lol.
I am using square foot gardening. What is a cold-frame greenhouse? So do you recommend not planting them directly outside into m sfg beds?
Someone told me they needed to be protected from wind otherwise the blooms would blow off? So I was thinking of staking the sides and wrapping plastic around the perimeter to do so. But then someone also told me no need to, just plant them outside and that they like to be really close together.

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 00:39:16 +0000

I didn’t end up growing peppers this last year (though I aim to this year), so I haven’t found any better peppers than early prolific. I’ll give you a brief run down on how I grew mine.

I planted my peppers on March 17th under wide spectrum fluorescent lights. They were then transplanted into my cold-frame greenhouse on May 29th. From then on, I treated them exactly the same as my tomatoes. I added no fertilizer (though I had good quality farm dirt) and watered them with a soaker hose on a timer about every two days for two hours. Sometimes I think this was too wet in cooler weather – but they grew fine and produced a crop. Peppers like it hot and will get bitter if the soil dries out too much. Hope that helps you out! Let me know how yours turn out this year!

By: vrkelley

vrkelley — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 00:11:13 +0000

So sorry to find you, 2 YEARS after your success. Have you found a better bell pepper since???

Peopers hate our Seattle weather, so I’m looking for short stature peppers that just grow under fluroescent grow lights. Would you post more detail about how you get Early Prolific peppers to grow?

Do they like wet or dry soil???
What sort of fertilizer and how often???

Thank you so much.