According to Your Organic Gardening Blog, the trick t0 getting your peppers to mature quickly is to apply Epsom salt. You’ll have to click over for the recipe, but this seems simple enough to me.
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I’ve also been spraying my pepper plants with a small amount of seaweed extract diluted in water. My plants seem pretty healthy with lots of green leaves and tons of flowers (even some peppers). I think I picked up that tip from Organic Gardening Magazine.
What tips have you heard of to help pepper plants?
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I just tried the epsom salt and it is really working! -Jackie
I still have my unopened Neptune’s Harvest Fish / Seaweed fertilizer. I was waiting for the rain to stop and every time I thought the rain would let up, it starts all over again. So my peppers aren’t doing that well because of the wet & cool temperatures.
FYI, epsom salt works great on tomatoes too!
http://erincovert.wordpress.com/2009/03/21/underground-dallas-tomato-gardening-video/
I used it this year with my tomato plants, according to this blog, and it has been a runaway success.
I read that you should consider peppers “jungle plants.” They like conditions hot and steamy, and a nice, organic mulch can go a long way towards that. But like Louise says, some of that is way beyond our control, and some years in some zones are just no good for peppers. So: wish for many hot, steamy, sunny days!
Jackie–Glad to know that it works!
Louise–Bummer.
Jennifer–I hadn’t heard that, but then again, I live in a climate that is pretty close to where peppers originated so I haven’t really put much thought into recreating their ideal climate.
Good to know Lars!
Good to know. I’ve been adding epsom salt to my tomatoes, Ill try it on my peppers now too.