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Capsicums - Sweet Peppers

We are having a bumper crop of Sweet Peppers this year, and not wanting them to go to waste....we wondered about Freezing...

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crissue

30 Jul, 2011
Crissue

A good growing season for peppers!

My organically prepared beds are starting to pay off with some surprisingly large "banana-peppers" this year! Here's some...

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n2organics

27 May, 2011
N2organics

One of my best "test plants"!

This little fellow is a "Sweet Bell Pepper" transplant that now lives in a 12 inch wide pot that has been prepared with all...

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n2organics

21 May, 2011
N2organics

Early planting experiment!

I have become fascinated with the "bare root planting technique" and decided to test it using a "sweet bell pepper" transplant....

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n2organics

5 Mar, 2011
N2organics

Waste not want not

Hubby wanted to sow pepper seeds earlier this year and had a few left over from the year before last, so he took a chance...

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mad

6 Sep, 2010
Mad

They day has come for Big Ben and friends

Big Bin got the chop I did not know if it was a sad day or a joyful day.But Big Ben and friends we had for lunch. They...

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johnjoe

25 Aug, 2010
Johnjoe

Big Ben is for the Chop

After buying my starter kit I did not know what to expect as been a first time grower.It was not easy but enjoyable the...

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johnjoe

22 Aug, 2010
Johnjoe

Awesome harvest tonight!

My seven little pepper plants have been producing like crazy despite the intense heat-wave here in central Texas this week!...

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n2organics

7 Aug, 2010
N2organics

4th of July weekend food!

I just started cooking "round one" of tonight's holiday meal with a round of stuffed organically grown bell peppers and banana...

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n2organics

4 Jul, 2010
N2organics

Chili and Peppers

My First Starter Kit It makes me laugh what you can grow from a seed growing starter kit. I purchased a seed growing Kit...

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johnjoe

12 Jun, 2010
Johnjoe

What to do with those green peppers

Today I picked my green peppers ,they are never going to get red are they ? Now what to do with them , well I sliced them...

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amy

11 Sep, 2008
Amy

Productive vegetables - your ideas please

This year I think my chili plant has been my favourite; I love cooking with chilies but that is not the reason why. I like...

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peter

25 Oct, 2007
Peter

Harvesting onions and chilies

Today was harvest day! After months of neglect, the onions, chilies and red peppers planted in May are ready. Actually they...

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peter

13 Oct, 2007
Peter

Ripening Peppers, Recovering Cress

There is now a second pepper starting to ripen on my capsicum plant and the first one is now a glorious red, although there...

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peter

11 Sep, 2007
Peter

Beginning to garden

With two exceptions (my courgettes and watercress) everything in my garden has almost taken care of itself. It looks green...

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peter

29 Aug, 2007
Peter

Harvest Time!!!

Today I picked the first produce from the veg patch-Dwarf French Beans that weren't quite so dwarf as I'd not looked at them...

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peter

15 Jul, 2007
Peter