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haha I'll just tell you now...super easy and well worth it. When you get ready to plant your seedlings, dig the hole an inch deeper than you usually would...take one unlit match from those cheapy cardboard matchbooks and toss it in the hole...fill in the inch of dirt...then take a pinch or so of cumbled dried egg shells and toss it in, then put the plant right on top and plant as normal. The calcium in the egg shells release and strengthen the plant and when then roots are long enough to reach the matchstick, it has broken down enough to release phosphorus right when the seedling needs it. The easiest and cheapest fertilizer out there...it works well on any pepper plants, but made my hot peppers go crazy last year. I had three jalapeno plants and yielded well over 10 pounds just on those three....in all I had 11 varieties of peppers and about 38 plants and had TONS of peppers. They were the best looking peppers I've grown in years!
Oh, what a neat trick, thanks!! Jalapenos grow great here. I planted 15 plants 3 years ago, and ate them for over two years with the yeilds I had! Cayennes are the ones I want this year, may plant some Jalapenos too, along with some Banana and Bells.
I've never tried the bananas, I'm not a huge fan...I did cayennes and dehydrated them and ground them down for adding to my birdies feed, mexibells, garden salsas (amazing peppers for canning), poblanos, serranos and one other one that's escaping me at the moment for spicy peppers. They all did great!
I remember the other one...alma paprikas, so I could grind my own paprika too.
haha I'll just tell you now...super easy and well worth it. When you get ready to plant your seedlings, dig the hole an inch deeper than you usually would...take one unlit match from those cheapy cardboard matchbooks and toss it in the hole...fill in the inch of dirt...then take a pinch or so of cumbled dried egg shells and toss it in, then put the plant right on top and plant as normal. The calcium in the egg shells release and strengthen the plant and when then roots are long enough to reach the matchstick, it has broken down enough to release phosphorus right when the seedling needs it. The easiest and cheapest fertilizer out there...it works well on any pepper plants, but made my hot peppers go crazy last year. I had three jalapeno plants and yielded well over 10 pounds just on those three....in all I had 11 varieties of peppers and about 38 plants and had TONS of peppers. They were the best looking peppers I've grown in years!
Oh, what a neat trick, thanks!! Jalapenos grow great here. I planted 15 plants 3 years ago, and ate them for over two years with the yeilds I had! Cayennes are the ones I want this year, may plant some Jalapenos too, along with some Banana and Bells.
I've never tried the bananas, I'm not a huge fan...I did cayennes and dehydrated them and ground them down for adding to my birdies feed, mexibells, garden salsas (amazing peppers for canning), poblanos, serranos and one other one that's escaping me at the moment for spicy peppers. They all did great!
I remember the other one...alma paprikas, so I could grind my own paprika too.
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