Re: The August garden report (loooong)

Cathy - website is www.seedsavers.org.  Their catalog is stunning. 
For varieties that fruit all summer long - even here - try Jimmy
Nardelos, Quadrato Asti Giallos (doesn't that name just SING?) and the
Burans.  I get the transplants but you can also get them as seeds.  
All sweet and wonderful.  Plant some basil and cosmos in their
neighborhood and you'll have more pollinators than you can shake a
stick at.  Putting a handful of powdered eggshell in the planting hole
helps to prevent the dreaded blossom end rot.  I also top dress them
w/ eggshell and greensand every two months but our growing season is
pretty long compared to what some of you have for warm weather crops. 
 My peppers do great long after everyone else's have croaked.  If
gardenspace is limited, grow the Burans & Nardellos in big pots.  I do
that up front.  Use plastic or synthetic pots, terra cotta dries out
to fast and they'll fry.
 

On 8/25/05, Cathy Carpenter <cathy.c@insightbb.com> wrote:
> Will have to look into them for next year. Some recipes demand sweet
> peppers.
> 
> Cathy, west central IL, z5b
> 
> On Aug 24, 2005, at 9:24 PM, Pam Evans wrote:
> 
> > Cathy - have you tried the heirloom peppers from SSE?   Mine are still
> > doing pretty well despite this abominable drought.  I like the Italian
> > varieties for good heat resistance, but the Polish heirloom Buran
> > performs well here also.
> >
> > On 8/24/05, Cathy Carpenter <cathy.c@insightbb.com> wrote:
> >
> >> I, too, have never had much success with sweet peppers, while having
> >> abundant hot peppers. Any theories out there?
> >>
> >> Cathy, west central IL, z5b
> >>
> >> On Aug 24, 2005, at 3:52 PM, Cersgarden@aol.com wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>> My sweet peppers are slow
> >>> to produce but the hot ones(Garden Salsa variety) are producing
> >>> bushels.
> >>> Everyplace I go I take hot peppers to give away.   I don't like my
> >>> salsa hot so
> >>> it takes very little to please me.
> >>>      I am going to have my soil from my home veggie garden
> >>> tested.   I think
> >>> I may have an imbalance.   Most of my veggies are grown in my off
> >>> site garden.
> >>>      Ceres
> >>>
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