Re: Pepper spacing

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• Subject: Re: Pepper spacing
• From: g*@juno.com
• Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2000 11:36:41 -0500

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Janet,
Have you been having drought or unreasonably hot weather.
Peppers don't set fruit in when it is very hot or dry.
You may need to set up a misting system.
Smitty

On Sun, 13 Feb 2000 11:22:54 -0500 Janet Wintermute
<jwintermute@erols.com> writes:
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> At 09:00 PM 2/12/00 -0500, Cyn wrote:
> >Are peppers one per sqf?  Anybody have any experience with planting 
> them
> >closer?
> 
> In the one gardening season (1994) when I had really fabulous 
> peppers here 
> (zone 7, just outside DC), the individual plants were more than 
> waste-basket size by early August and producing their heads off.
> 
> One per square would have been right.  (I wasn't square-footing then 
> and 
> had them in rows on about 10-inch centers and that was too close 
> together 
> for good breeze penetration.)
> 
> But in all seasons since then, for whatever climatic or other 
> reasons, my 
> peps have been scrawnier by far.  Perhaps 4 peps centered in 3 
> squares 
> would do in an average year.
> 
> --Janet
> 
> 
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