Can you give me an idea of how tall a bell pepper plant gets? And, from what I read, this means I should also cage or stake my pepper plants, like the tomatoes? (I staked the tomatoes last year but I'll be caging them in 3-foot wire fencing this year.) Thanks for any help. This will be my first year with peppers.
our bell peppers can get to about 5 feet in height, I tend to cage mine, they seem to do well that way. Peppers unlike tomatoes, like to grow up and not out on the ground. Peppers will grow centered in the cage, not really relying on it for help. {leaning on} Unless they start to get top heavy as my bannana peppers have in the past. As long as they are well watered and free of weeds, they take little maintence. For harvest, tap on them as you would in the grocery, listening for the hollow sound that comes with a ready pepper.
wow, those peppers look great! Im growing a few different pepper plants right now, I hope I dont end up killing them.....we love peppers, especially banana peppers (hubsfave too bad I didnt grow any!)
Thanks *tons*, Phelan! I'm planting a variety of bell peppers (for the homemade salsa I make for DH) and some Hungarian paprika peppers for homemade paprika. This is excellent information!
Thanks for the info Phelan, but 5 feet? What are you feeding those fellas? I've never grown peppers, this is the first year (well, it's a first for a lot of things for me) and I didn't know they got so tall, so we'll see what height we get out of it.
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Can you give me an idea of how tall a bell pepper plant gets? And, from what I read, this means I should also cage or stake my pepper plants, like the tomatoes? (I staked the tomatoes last year but I'll be caging them in 3-foot wire fencing this year.) Thanks for any help. This will be my first year with peppers.
our bell peppers can get to about 5 feet in height, I tend to cage mine, they seem to do well that way. Peppers unlike tomatoes, like to grow up and not out on the ground. Peppers will grow centered in the cage, not really relying on it for help. {leaning on} Unless they start to get top heavy as my bannana peppers have in the past. As long as they are well watered and free of weeds, they take little maintence. For harvest, tap on them as you would in the grocery, listening for the hollow sound that comes with a ready pepper.
Hope that answers your question.
wow, those peppers look great! Im growing a few different pepper plants right now, I hope I dont end up killing them.....we love peppers, especially banana peppers (hubsfave too bad I didnt grow any!)
Thanks *tons*, Phelan! I'm planting a variety of bell peppers (for the homemade salsa I make for DH) and some Hungarian paprika peppers for homemade paprika. This is excellent information!
Thanks for the info Phelan, but 5 feet? What are you feeding those fellas? I've never grown peppers, this is the first year (well, it's a first for a lot of things for me) and I didn't know they got so tall, so we'll see what height we get out of it.
Thanks for the harvest info, too!
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