Posts Tagged ‘bell pepper’

The Fall and the The Fall of the Pepper Plants

The year has run its course for my peppers.  Not even a few for the market tomorrow :(

They were really tasty and prolific this year - bells, gypsy, red and golden marconi (personal favorites), corno di toro giallo.

The peppers got the best of everything.

The most water.  Adequate fertilizer.  Sometimes both at the expense of other crops.  Nevertheless, inherent in this system is the season. Pepper plants die around now.  No way around that in this neck of the woods.

Now, I wouldn’t go fertilizing them now.  They are a sinking ship.  They have their last fruit on them, a reward they can take with them.  Adding more nutrients now would be a waste of money.  A case of the rich getting richer, at the expense of the poorer and the entire governing agency (in this case, the farm)!  Except, of course, it won’t work.  In fact, I gave this situation a name - the pepper “bailout”.

If I were a Wildgrace CSA member, and found out that I gave more fertilizer to the peppers at this point, I would be angry, downright livid about this misappropriation of funds.  The pepper “bailout”, as it were, is a farce.  The peppers don’t need it, but, apparantly, that just doesn’t matter.

we’ll see.

Andrew