2025 Garden Thread

[begreen]

@begreen , congratulations on such a great squash, tomato, and pepper year. Good work! How many Sugar Rush Peach plants do you have planted to have yielded so many pounds of peppers? That's quite a haul.

2 plants. They get over 4 ft tall and are packed with peppers like I have not seen before.

That's some nice sweets. Even the ones that didn't produce well look beautiful.

 

[DuaeGuttae]

Thanks, @begreen. I have them curing on our sunporch now. They like high heat and humidity for that, so I'm trying to do what I can naturally before the weather cools off too much.


I am really impressed that only two pepper plants have given you so many peppers. I know you said that they grow large, but they must surely set a lot of fruit all over to accomplish that. Did you figure out a good way to support them?

 

[begreen]

I am really impressed that only two pepper plants have given you so many peppers. I know you said that they grow large, but they must surely set a lot of fruit all over to accomplish that. Did you figure out a good way to support them?

Yes, they need strong support but fortunately peppers are all air inside and don't weigh a lot like tomatoes or eggplants. I have one plant in a large tomato cage tied to a 4ft stake. The other plant is in a different plant support system buttressed on each side by other pepper plants, each about 18" apart.