December 23, 2024

VIDEO: 6 Tips To Ensure a BUMPER CROP of Peppers


We are having a great year for peppers. In today’s episode we are showing you 5 tips to growing a huge bumper crop of peppers. We will discus varieties, Scoville, watering, fertilizing, and topping with how they affect pepper yields.

19 thoughts on “VIDEO: 6 Tips To Ensure a BUMPER CROP of Peppers

  1. My new go to is the Jimmy Nardello, or Red Marconi. I did find this Purple Jalapeño at one of my Nursery places. It is in a pot and growing better than all of my in ground pepper plants. Most likely because I have it in part shade. I think I will overwinter it. The Habanada plants have yet to produce any blooms, and they were planted in late March. I am however enjoying the Gold Nugget Cherry tomatoes I planted. I can't understand the fascination with growing peppers so hot that you can't taste your food. You should try eating a cascabella, or a Peter Pepper to compare.

  2. Loved the video, food for thought for next year. Maybe you could do a food tasting and torture session based on the peppers you’ve grown.. you might develop a whole new fan base.

  3. After growing peppers successfully for years with no issues, last year I started battling pepper maggot fly (Niagara region, Ontario). The fly lays an egg on the pepper when the pepper is just a wee thing and the larva burrows into the fruit where it eats away at the placenta. Once mature, it eats it's way out at the bottom of the pepper and drops to the ground to pupate in the soil over the winter. The next summer, it emerges and starts the cycle all over again. This causes the peppers to appear all healthy and beautiful while they are growing and just as they start to turn red and you get excited about the pending harvest, they suddenly wither up and rot into a wet, stinky mess.

    This year was no different and my plants were covered by the flies when my plants started producing their first little baby fruits in mid July. (I planted them in a different, fresh bed that I had never grown peppers in before). Sadly, I had to cut off all the little fruits and discarded them and then covered the plants with fine netting to keep the flies out. They are producing like crazy again and I am patiently waiting for my first red ones. So far, the netting has worked to keep the nasty pepper maggot fly out and fortunately, the green peppers I have harvested have been maggot free. I have never heard of anyone ever having this issue.

  4. I've been watching this channel for quite a long time. I have to admit…watching Luke in half speed is a guilty pleasure…sooo funny. Watch the part after he eats the pepper in slo mo..amazing. Love the gardening training 🙂

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