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How to you properly nurture a pepper?
On 08/04/2016 09:16 PM, songbird wrote:
T wrote: songbird wrote: T wrote: songbird wrote: T wrote: ... I give it extra water and extra fertilizer. But it is still sad looking and not growing much. if it isn't actively growing it should not be fertilized much at all.. Uh oh! How about the extra water? Am I screwing up there too? i don't know, it depends upon the condtions. here it has been hot and dry enough that i water the veggie patches every three or four days. a container plant in the hot sun might need water twice a day... (i don't have any veggie container plants) I only use certified organic fertilizer. Does that make a difference? i would back off a bit to see how it responds. without knowing the specific nutrients and ingredients i couldn't say. for me the organic fertilizers i use are either green manure chopped and left for the worms to digest or the worms and worm castings that i put in the gardens under the plants in the spring when i'm planting. i don't fertilize after that. by rotation planting then i may not fertilize a garden for two or more years later. depends upon what i'm growing in that space. I wish I had your skills! in time it comes along. i didn't know anything when i started growing plants as a kid, but i read and practiced and made mistakes and kept at it. even now i still make mistakes. mostly i'm just a very simple gardener and in doing that and using principles like encouraging diversity and using cover crops and having areas that are insect refuges it seems to be working out pretty well. i'm also pretty laid back. i don't always get things done on time or worry too much if there's a weed here or there. as far as crop rotation goes, just pick plants from a different family of plants. as long as they aren't a heavy feeder you may not need as much fertilizer (or none at all). i like beans and peas enough, but plenty of other things work well too. after zuchinis onions or garlic, beans, peppers... ... Okay. Bummer. Any advice other than to do an autopsy? Autopsies are kind of hard on the patient! is it still in a pot or is it planted in the ground? I hacked holes in the ground, pulled out all the rocks, stuck weeds at the bottom (your doing by the way), filled with peat moss and whatever that stuff is called that came out of the hole to start with. I figured that since my soil is so poor and hard, I would make a "ground pots". Not problem with them blowing over and cheap. They were not easy to hack out. Took forever. I just water the ground pots with a wand. I made sure the fillings I put back didn't quite go to the surface so water would pool up. All my other plants seen to really have taken to my ground pots too! On the bright side, I discovered that swinging an ax is really good for my blood sugar! Vigorous exercise has the same effect on a T2 as eating a carb loaded meal. That would be your liver thinking your are running for you life! well, glad that things are going ok. i'm pretty sure i'd want something in there other than peat moss, but at least it is organic matter and better than nothing. Peat changes my soil from alkali to acid. I have used local compost for years and got no where with it. I think the reason it that compost is a booster and can not help bad soil become healthy, as my alkali soil demonstrates. My garlic is such a pretty pink! So far the best I have done it Dr Earth fertilizer at the bottom of the hole, a bunch of weeds, then peat moss mixed with my awful dirt. next time those holes will be easier to work with. each season builds upon the last... next year you can make more holes if needed, but the previous ones can be planted with some other family of plant. made a little bigger. keep chipping away. :) songbird Each year I learn something new. My wife says to keep a journal of things learned. I think I have won the war with the squash bugs. haven't seen one or eggs in over a week. Yippee! I still check though. My garlic crop was poor this year. I feel so ripped off that I have to wait another year to try again. This time I will use peat, weeds and melon rinds which I am collecting. And remember to occasionally water them. -T |
How to you properly nurture a pepper?
T wrote:
songbird wrote: .... well, glad that things are going ok. i'm pretty sure i'd want something in there other than peat moss, but at least it is organic matter and better than nothing. Peat changes my soil from alkali to acid. I have used local compost for years and got no where with it. I think the reason it that compost is a booster and can not help bad soil become healthy, as my alkali soil demonstrates. any organic matter will help over the long haul (humus is a weak acid). My garlic is such a pretty pink! So far the best I have done it Dr Earth fertilizer at the bottom of the hole, a bunch of weeds, then peat moss mixed with my awful dirt. :) next time those holes will be easier to work with. each season builds upon the last... next year you can make more holes if needed, but the previous ones can be planted with some other family of plant. made a little bigger. keep chipping away. :) Each year I learn something new. My wife says to keep a journal of things learned. we have pictures and maps of what went in when Ma first started gardening here many years ago. now i just take a picture once in a while if there is something interesting or Ma wants a record of a new decoration or something. she was going to throw the old records and scrapbooks away but i was able to talk her into giving them to me instead. I think I have won the war with the squash bugs. haven't seen one or eggs in over a week. Yippee! I still check though. yay! we never did find two of the three tomato worms. i guess they went underground as there hasn't been any more damage anywhere. My garlic crop was poor this year. I feel so ripped off that I have to wait another year to try again. This time I will use peat, weeds and melon rinds which I am collecting. And remember to occasionally water them. too much OM in the soil will encourage diseases. the crop wasn't all that great this year here either. songbird |
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