[CH] Re: growing in KY
tonitime@juno.com
Sat, 21 Feb 2004 23:38:28 -0500
Thanks for the replies, folks! I start my plants here in zone 6a at the
beginning of march, use good homemade compost in each planting hole, have
beds that drain pretty well - raised w/ excess water drained away in
moats around the beds, put matches in each hole, use black plastic mulch,
and my transplants started out looking wonderful. We've not been here so
long - perhaps of the three years growing it was just the weather here.
Year one went fine - and then downhill after that! I will have my soil
retested - seems i had raised my ph in this acetic soil area too high.
If i remember, it was between 6.5 and 7.3 ( the neighbors tested 4.5
without messing with it)!! Last year, in two new beds for peppers - one
whole bed had some sort of blight or disease where the leaves just
browned and fell off in droves. I will try new beds where there haven't
been tomatoes, peppers, or taters before.
I am thankful to hear of your northern successes and now know we can have
it all, too!! There is one pest that looks like a black larva that bores
into each pepper - especially when they are almost ready to pick. As i
garden organically, i don't use chem sprays - will try some of the other
fixes to see if they work on that critter this year.
Does anyone grow the Aleppo Pepper?? After buying some from Penzeys -
we'd like to have that seasoning as well! I was hoping the product was
flakes and that i might find a few seed in it - but powdered is how it 's
prepped.
Thanks for giving this gardener Pepper Hope!! The next garden will
always be the best ;-)
Hot regards and Hot times toya ~
Toni
Red River Gorge(ous), KY
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