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Re: Efficient SF crops

"thyme" is doing lots of different stuff from me, and I'm not practicing
strict Square Footedness, but I can certainly identify with her statement
that her "bell peppers were NOT impressive!"  Same here in USDA zone 7 just
outside the Nation's Capital.  I have yet to read a word from anybody here
or over on the Usenet side saying that this was a good year for sweet
peppers.  Wonder what went wrong nationwide???

My California Wonders, Yellow California Wonder's, Park's Rainbox Mix, and
Park's China Belles were all misshapen and thin walled.

Actually, I've *never* had peppers with walls thick like at the grocery
store.  But I had bangup pepper crops in all colors in 1994, so it *can* be
done fine in this climate.

thyme talks about "gypsy peppers."  What are they?

My tomatoes all did well.  I'm confused why thyme would want to use
determinate toms next year.  Isn't it better to keep getting fruit over the
long haul from a vine?

Caging worked out fine in my raised beds; toms left to sprawl were messy.  I
don't prune tomatoes at all, BTW.

Spinach was my surprise success story.  Both 'Tyee' and 'Melody' did very
well for me despite seed not being into the ground until April 23.  We had a
long, cold, very wet spring here with frost in the first week of May (quite
unusual).

--Janet
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Janet Wintermute             jwintermute@idsonline.com
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