What did you do in the garden today?

[Fire Ant Farm]

Do they do well
For you? Are they just slow to get started?

FWIW, when I've grown them, they were slow to start - I also have had a real issue with sun scald in our climate, and have been most successful when I provided some afternoon shade (courtesy of a luff on a trellis).

I've had better luck with hot peppers here - bell peppers are still a little hit or miss for me, I haven't quite cracked the code with them yet.

Edit to add: My best successes were with plants that were started indoors over the winter, and transplanted from 3 gallon containers into the garden. YMMV...

- Ant Farm

 

[dan26552]

FWIW, when I've grown them, they were slow to start - I also have had a real issue with sun scald in our climate, and have been most successful when I provided some afternoon shade (courtesy of a luff on a trellis).

I've had better luck with hot peppers here - bell peppers are still a little hit or miss for me, I haven't quite cracked the code with them yet.

Edit to add: My best successes were with plants that were started indoors over the winter, and transplanted from 3 gallon containers into the garden. YMMV...

- Ant Farm

I see.

My sister bought transplants a couple months ago and I'm not at all impressed, they're tall and leggy with barely any flowers let alone fruit and they've been flowering for a couple weeks now. The sweet and hot peppers I started in December, those are impressive, they're short, stout and loaded with fruit. They're about 1 1/2 feet tall with at least 5 or 6 peppers on each plant, some have over a dozen.

 

[karenerwin]

Yes they usually do really well and yes, they are slow to start. Mine this year are only about 12 to 15 inches tall and have a couple of small peppers on them. Last year mine kept producing up until we had hard freezes and were over 4 feet tall! That's the biggest they have ever gotten.

 

[lazy gardener]

Peppers and I do not get along well together. Climate is not condusive. Too cold. Never the less, I continue to plant peppers every year, and am thrilled to get even a few before the slugs eat them from the inside out. This year, I am setting myself up for a HUGE pepper failure: I've planted 6 multi colored, 6 Habanero, and 6 Jalapeno. Past failures coupled with this being the coldest, wettest spring I've ever seen, ensure pepper failure. I'll go down in a blaze of glory. It will be my most stunning gardening failure!!! Currently, my failures in waiting are residing in a bed under a plastic tunnel.

 

[dan26552]

Yes they usually do really well and yes, they are slow to start. Mine this year are only about 12 to 15 inches tall and have a couple of small peppers on them. Last year mine kept producing up until we had hard freezes and were over 4 feet tall! That's the biggest they have ever gotten.

Ah, ok. Nice. Mine are about 24 to 28 inches tall currently. Well, maybe they'll prove themselves by the time fall comes.

Whereas my other peppers are doing quite well and are loaded!

 

[Circle W Farms]

Tried up tomatoes again(they are getting huge),weeded and picked some squash

 

[chickadoodles]

I did bell peppers last year and they did great. But I can't get mine to even sprout or my basil this year. I've re-planted several times without any luck so far. I am hoping it's because of all the cloud's and rain. Without sun my stuff is suffering a bit.

 

[pennyJo1960]

been lurking reading the thread for about two weeks had a fairly large garden last year went down to container gardening this year much easier on my body and my BF and his Son that is 35 and severely disabled.. I am adding photo's of our new improved garden.
The greenhouse and my main coop show in the background, the greenhouse which also holds my brooder now. The potatoes are being grown in burlap bags. most are vegies are growing in tires.

 

[BiggJohnn]

Just a start... good with the peppers not so much with zucchini!!

 

[BiggJohnn]

Just a start... good with the peppers not so much with zucchini!!

Purple bell pepper