Timestamps. This is how I take care of my pepper plants in general and at mid season growth. I cover pepper fertilizing, watering, staking, and basic pruning.
How to Save Struggling Vegetable Garden Plants in 3 Steps (Peppers, Tomatoes, & More) https://youtu.be/ECYApmknBxw
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0:00 My Tips for Growing Amazing Peppers
0:46 Fixing Struggling Peppers Overview
2:08 Example of Struggling Peppers & Care
3:35 Peppers Need Staking & Support – Example on Not Staked
4:13 Ongoing Pepper Care Management – Lower Leaf Removal
6:02 Before & After Pepper Staking Example – More Light & Flow
7:53 Remove Peppers That Won’t Get Larger – How You Know?
9:24 Just Remove the Lower Leaves = No Fancy Method – Yank!
10:50 Example of Pepper Sunscald – Why It Happens
11:19 Mid Season Top Dressing – What is It & Examples
13:57 Top Dressing Example 2
14:47 My Pepper Pep Talk = Nothing Fancy or Pretty
16:05 Don’t Stop the Nitrogen – Don’t Tweak the N, P, & K
17:22 My Basic Pepper Fertilizing Routine – My Yearly Care
18:36 Mid Season Care – Water Soluble Fertilizer Example
20:11 Tour of My Sunken Container Peppers – Two Plants Per Hole
20:52 What Do Hot Roots/Soil Do to Peppers?
22:00 Water, Water, Water – Frequency & Examples
24:35 Basic Anti-Fungal Spraying – It’s the Routine
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My garden got in late too. 3 weeks into june. Toooo much rain and cold. I couldn’t till the soil. I put a scoop of fertilizer, & bone meal in planting hole. Water soluble fertilizer once a week sometimes 2x. They are doing ok now. I won’t know how I did until the threat of 1st frost comes. Last season 14 trays of various stuffed hot and sweet peppers into freezer.
My whole garden is struggling. Between all the rain and temperatures being like a yoyo everything has taken a hit. All of my green beans just stunted and didn't grow for a month, they got to around 3 inches and just stopped then all of a sudden they started growing, now they're producing but the plants are dying. They've had over 3 months but the stunting…. drives me insane. I had this same problem last year but never before and I've been in a garden since I was old enough to help and learn… I'm 45 and not new to gardening. These last few years though, frustrating is an understatement.
My tomatoes are doing great in zone 6 , peppers are not doing well. Thanks for the advice for liquid fertilizer.
My collards started powdery mildew! Squash, cucumber. Got captain jack copper spray, still had to pull a squash and cut back the collards vinegar did not work!
I use the light duty cheap tomato cages on my peppers/eggplant. On tomatoes I shoot for 12 inches of airspace at the stem. It’s 6-8 inches on peppers. I heavy mulch with straw and find the lower leaves a waste of plant energy. I’m a firm believer of no mud splash on leaves on any plant.
What about feeding during heat wave? I thought we should wait on feeding the in ground, until after the heat wave?
Great video for peppers grower. Waiting for mid season container peppers care video. Hope you make it soon .thanks
My potting mix was terrible and everything looked sad, but the peppers have really turned around after getting in the ground and getting some rain and heat. I’ll fertilize tomorrow, we got rain today. Sort of newish to growing peppers but they’re looking good this year. Might have to add more next year.
Do you suggest a flush? To get rid of salts and to trigger flowering.
My pepper plants look great this year. Thanks for all the information
I use Espoma as well and have been under feeding. I read the label and found I wasn't putting down enough. Plants love a heavy hand of organic fertilizer. It doesn't have the high N-P-K levels, but its a longer feed. You have a great channel, learn a lot and I've been gardening since I was a kid.
Excellent information! Thanks for sharing.
We've had around 90d weather every day in between heavy rains frequently this . Does the heavy rain cause the peppers to be slow to fruit? I'm here in nebraska
I have a good 3 feet of empty space on the north side of some sweet corn that hasn't yet sprouted (it's old and I'm not sure it will actually sprout) – is it too late to plant seeds in that spot for a few more jalapeno plants?
Gary, I really enjoy your videos. I was a Gardener in Massachusetts zone 6B for 30 years but last July got the opportunity to have 5 acres up here in Maine zone 5A so it’s been a learning curve but anytime I want practical advice, or just to listen to a soothing voice talk about real life gardening, I watch your channel so thank you.
This was so useful and came at just the right time for me. I kept wondering why my bell peppers were so little, so I'll be taking off the flowers and lower leaves tomorrow. Thanks for sharing and showing that it doesn't need to be so complicated.
This video feels like a quiet escape from the noise of life — so calm, so real. I often try to capture that same peaceful rhythm in my own small garden space, where moments seem to slow down too.😊