Every year, from right after planting until late June, it seems as though our pepper plants refuse to grow. Sure, they look reasonably healthy, but they just sit there. Motionless. Simply waiving their right as plants to grow in response to moisture and sunlight. But there is that one vital ingredient missing: heat. Peppers love it. As soon as Mother Nature turns the furnace on in July the plants explode. We are currently in that period of rapid, expansive growth. Some varieties are beating others, but they're all starting to do well.
We treated the peppers with copper fungicide as mentioned in our tomato update post to prevent the spread of bacterial or fungal disease that could spread from the neighboring tomatoes. As we described, copper fungicide is an organically approved treatment for fungal and bacterial disease outbreaks. We have fortunately not seen any signs of disease in our peppers so far. We're very thankful to see that it is not spreading, because in 2011 we had somewhat similar conditions and lost most of our pepper plants to disease.
When they start ripening, which will be in only a few short weeks, we will bring them to the market.
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