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RE: Pepper spacing

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Hello,

I'm the one that did the "nine hottest peppers" in the world last year and
it was at one per sq. The biggest problem I had was shading as I did not
realize some would grow five ft tall. This year I'm taking that into account
as well doing more staking.

Charlie.

P.S. I also grew several in the "concrete block hole" method, less
production but overall good results.

-----Original Message-----
From: Janet Wintermute [j*@erols.com]
Sent: Sunday, February 13, 2000 11:23 AM
To: Square Foot Gardening List
Subject: Pepper spacing


Square Foot Gardening List - http://www.flinet.com/~gallus/sqft.html

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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