Member discussion regarding the methods, varieties and merits of growing tomatoes.
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June 16, 2012 | #1 |
Two-faced Drama Queen
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Peppadew Peppers
I got some of these seeds from South Africa. Anyone grown them? I want to try them for a container garden project for my summer garden camp students.
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June 16, 2012 | #2 |
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Do a search for Peppadew jennifer. There are a few threads on it.
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June 16, 2012 | #3 |
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They are slow growing. I'd pick something else that grows faster...maybe snap beans with a short DTM.
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June 16, 2012 | #4 |
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Thanks dust. I read the package, it does say 100 DTM. But I'm wondering if I started them now inside, and just kept them in their containers I could show them to the kids in the fall. The same kids in the camp come to my school in the fall so they can see them during the winter months too.
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June 16, 2012 | #5 |
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Some people have successfully brought their peppers inside to overwinter until the next year, so there are numerous possibilities. Rumour has it that kids really love broccoli, so why don't you grow that?
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June 16, 2012 | #6 |
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I will vouch they are very slow. Mine were sown February 1 and are still on the small side and have zero flowers. All the other hot pepper plants have begun flowering already and my Melrose is going insane. Bummer, I was looking forward to the peppadews.
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June 17, 2012 | #7 |
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I brought mine in for two winters, they didn't mature for me the first time but after being in the first winter they took off and were loaded with peppers. I brought them in again this winter but decided I didn't have enough room this year so passed them on to a friend, she says they are growing great. I pruned them back like roses when I brought them in
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June 17, 2012 | #8 |
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June 17, 2012 | #9 |
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kids and broccoli
LOL Alan. I was so lucky this year to make the garden and cooking class a reality at my school. In our outside garden, we are actually growing cabbage, onions, tomatoes, peppers, beans, lettuce, ground cherries, eggplant, basil, oregano, and strawberries. One of our projects is going to be to make a pizza with some of the veggies, I'm still planning the others.
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June 17, 2012 | #10 |
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I think they might do well in a container, but I have only grown them in the main garden here. The plants got to be about 3 to 4 feet tall and very bushy. They seem to take forever to get going, but will set a lot of fruit in the latter part of the cycle. The fruit shape is like a round habanero - some are slightly wrinkled. Ripening goes from green to light yellow and then to a bright red. They tend to be thin walled but not "skin and bones" and seed quantities are moderate. Heat seems to me to be like a very hot jalapeno, although my nephew-in-law says they are just a bit hotter than a fully ripe serrano.
I don't eat them. Everybody knows that I am a self-professed pepper wimp and very proud of it. The pictures below were taken in October of 2010 and show the three plants I had that year. Note in the first two pictures that there is no sign of the rest of the garden behind the three plants. These pictures were taken just before the first frost. BTW, my seed source was the same as yours, Jennifer.
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June 17, 2012 | #11 |
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Jennifer if you start the seed now I can guarantee you will get no peppers this year but you should by the next year. They set and ripen the bulk of their fruit in the early and late fall. I live in the deep south and start my Pappadew seed in December or January and don't usually get significant numbers of peppers off of them until October and November. I like to cook mine down and make a mildly hot pepper sauce that to me is the best of all the peppers I have tried.
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June 17, 2012 | #12 |
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Food Network is now making sandwiches in ballparks around the US, St Luise Cardinals have a Red White and Blue one , Steak tips ,Pepperdaw mayonnaise, and Blue Cheese. There are a ton of recipe's on there websites now.
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June 17, 2012 | #13 |
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FILMNET thanks for the recipes! That link you posted is excellent.
B54red thanks - I don't know anything about peppadew except it is hard to get the seeds, so I just thought it would be cool to grow some in containers indoors. Last edited by jennifer28; June 18, 2012 at 07:59 AM. |
August 21, 2012 | #14 |
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August 22, 2012 | #15 |
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I have posted here its illegal to sell peppadew seeds, don't know about growing them though. So i have 5 plants with fruit now, same size fruits like the one sold. Green fruits now 2 weeks for red
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