For what seems like 8 million years, I have grown ‘Tomatoberry’. It’s a small cherry tomato variety that is not rare or superflashy, but it works well for me, so I stick with it. My gardening friends are similar: They plant the same varieties year after year because those varieties are proven performers and they don’t want to mess with what works. But when you rock the boat a bit, you occasionally stumble upon a new variety that is just as great, or perhaps even better, than the old standbys. That’s how I ended up replacing my ‘Sweet 100’s’ cherry tomatoes with ‘Tomatoberry’ many years ago. The following options may not be brand-new, but they have proven themselves to be reliable “newer” vegetables, and they might be good additions to your garden this season.
Expect a plethora of petite peppers with ‘Cupid’
If you have trouble with peppers (and I do), ‘Cupid’ might be a good choice next season. Although the plants are rather large, they produce scores of miniature bell peppers early in the season (they mature to green in 55 days and to red in 75). It’s a disease- and sunscald-resistant variety that keeps producing right into fall. I was shocked to see Fine Gardening assistant editor Carol Collins’s plants still filled with fruit at the end of September last year. The small heart-shaped peppers are the perfect snack to pair with a bowl of cherry tomatoes.
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I want to erite that overwatering peppers, as well as watering with cold water can lead to rotting of the root system. Peppers are heat-loving plants, they need watering with settled water at room temperature. Well, if the pot is in the area of the heating system and the clod of earth dries quickly, then water them more often, it is permissible even every other day. Under normal conditions - twice a week. It also does not hurt to install an open container with water for evaporation near heaters.
Also I learned that If you grow seedlings of peppers thickly and then dive them, do not try to pinch the central root, as many advise - peppers are very sensitive to this procedure. Of course, the plant will not die, but it will be very long to move away from such an execution and may not bloom.
Often with the appearance of pests on the peppers, the owners get scared and throw out the plant. Aphids and mites can appear in the summer from the garden or just put in the open window, and also can go with other indoor plants. But for pepper it is absolutely not scary. It is the strongest repeller sucking insects. I've studyied of the byiology faculty and now I provide online assignment help and plant care help on my own blog.
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