Showing posts with label bell peppers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bell peppers. Show all posts

Monday, September 17, 2012

Pretty Peppers

1:35 PM
 Aren't these just beautiful?  Oh!  Who would have told me five years ago that I'd be sitting here taking pictures of peppers...I never would have believed it.  Here is batch #2 of our pretty peppers.
 I had to get this shot here (above) to let you know of all of the varieties that we are growing because it's hard to tell in the baskets.  You see the greens, the yellows, oranges and reds but you can't really point out what's there (with the exception of the little cayennes).  So here goes, when you're looking at this picture above, the top two red & green ones are: ancient sweets, then we've got three types of bells coming across the top.  You can tell those pretty well.  Then down beneath those (the skinny ones) are the long and short cayennes, then on your bottom left, you've got the hungarian (paprika) peppers and on the right are red jalapenos (green and red jalapenos are basically the same, just one's (the reds) are riper than the other (the green ones).



 Our tomatoes are pretty much done for the season, we've got a few heirloom and cherokee that are trying to make a comeback before the frost hits.  But other than that, we're pretty much all herbs and peppers, ridin' out the rest of the season!
 
Happy Farming!
 
The Farmer's Assistant :-)

Tuesday, September 11, 2012

Fresh Picked:Cayenne's and Bell Peppers

12:09 AM






This is our latest batch of cayenne and bell peppers and there's a lot more to be picked.  As you already know, just one plant puts out a LOT of fruit, be it whatever veggie (ie. tomatoes, herbs, peppers) you name it.  You don't have to have a lot of any one plant to bring in a hearty harvest. 
The right amount of soil, sunlight and water is really all that you need.  Even your average container garden with a little touch of tender, love and care can go a long way.  Sometimes with a large plant, you may have to use a stake to stablize the plant but beyond that, you're good to go!  Bell peppers, anyone?
 
The Farmer's Assistant
 
 


Monday, June 11, 2012

The peppers are planted!

8:00 AM
Our peppers are officially planted!

Some of the plants were a bit leggy so to start out with, Papa had to remove the leaves
from the bottom 2/3 of the plants.  He also removed all of the small peppers that had
formed on the plants prior to planting them in the garden.   Once that was done the plants were ready to go and he was able to plant these peppers deeper into the holes.







He dug the holes with a post hole digger and then used 2/3 of the dirt mixed
with Black Kow composted cow manure, lime, and Epsom salt.





Once that was done he then refilled the holes partially and put in 3 peppers per hole, filled the remaining space of the hole.
And added a stake to each section of plants.
There were 128 pepper plants planted total.  And our pepper varieties include: California Wonder, Green, Yellow and Red Bell Peppers, Anaheim Peppers, Cayenne Peppers, Jalapeno Peppers
                                                         andYellow Banana Peppers