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Growing hot peppers
If you've had trouble getting tomatoes started from seed, peppers are worse. I have found them to be the hardest plant to get going. They need a long time to go from sprouting seed to being large enough to transplant outside. Here in zone 4, that means starting really early, in midwinter. January is not too soon. February…
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Both vids new info for me...parts of it
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Getting hot peppers started from seed
Strictly speaking, peppers are fruit, but I think they fit better in the vegetables forum. :-) I planted three types of hot pepper seeds in aluminum bread pans on February 26. The soil was dampened, wet newspapers folded and placed on top to trap moisture, the pans and newspapers were placed in quart-size ziploc bags, and…
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Sweet pepper harvested-ready to prepare for storage
My little greenhouse garden experiment went well. Lots of peppers, thought they are smaller since we got such a late start. Now I need to get them processed for storage. We live off grid so freezer space is tight. I plan on freezing a few whole, but want to try dehydrating most of them. Mainly dices or sliced but plan to…
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Pepper varieties (2019), including Ajvarski