[CH] Pepper planting plan?
Jonathan Smillie (jonathan.smillie@gmail.com)
Sun, 11 Apr 2010 21:18:33 -0400
Say that six times fast...
I'm getting ready (within about a month) to transplant seedlings into a
raised bed, which runs along the chain-link fence at the bottom of our
garden and faces directly south with uninterrupted sun most of the day
and a readily controllable water supply (soaker hoses). I plan on
growing roughly equal proportions of Jolokia, Fatalii, orange habanero,
chocolate habanero, and Caribbean Reds. I'm planning 4 ranks or rows of
5 plants each, spaced 18 inches apart both in rank and file, a spacing
that worked nicely last year.
Here's where I'd like the advice:
My garden last year consisted of just orange and chocolate habs, and it
seemed that the chocolates, given the same water and sun conditions as
the orange habaneros, got much larger (the plants were a good 8 inches
taller and much bushier) and yielded larger as well as more fruit. I'm
thinking, given that, of making these the "back" rank (the one closest
to the house as opposed to the fence), and placing the orange habs in
the front rank. However, I don't have any experience with the fatalii or
jolokia varieties as a grower, and it's been a couple of years since
I've had any reds (and these are seeds from Jim Campbell's fields, not
Lowe's or Home Depot's generic "red habanero"). Anybody have specific
advice on the height I can expect these varieties to reach and,
consequently, how I might want to arrange the plants in this grid?
Thanks in advance,
Jonathan