Hm. Rebecca, I'm about 6 hr away in Ontario (different Great Lake), though I went to school in Northeast Ohio and the overall climate isn't that different; I think you might be half a zone warmer.

I'm afraid I have the best peppers I've ever had. Hot peppers in pots, which is how I usually do them, are thriving, and a dozen sweet sheppard peppers in one of my raised beds are huge, healthy plants loaded with peppers ---though they are still green, so I haven't picked them and tried them yet.

We've had very good weather for peppers & tomatoes this year: hot, but with not-too-infrequent rain. The rain is often thunderstorms, though, which means it could be very different in different areas.

DO you have tomatoes, and are they doing well? (THey're in the same family and like the same weather so that might help narrow it down.....)

Hope they perk up for you!

Z

Like Zabby I'm having a great pepper year. So you might want to post this on either the Vegetable Gardening forum here or on the Peppers forum for more relevant info since that is there focus.

But one of the usual answers given to this question on those forums is too much nitrogen fertilizer or too much N in the soil amendments used. A condition called 'blossom drop' is another possibility often mentioned and it is weather related.

Dave

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Thanks for the responses. Zabby yes I have a lot of tomato plants and they are doing great. I actually can't even keep up with them. We've also have had a very hot summer and little rain but we've watered regularly.

Dave - I don't think it's blossom drop but not positive. I'll check the other forum. I've actually never even looked at the other forums, I've only been in the harvest one and I wasn't sure if my question was considered harvesting or not.

Thanks again!

umm..now my peppers are nuts! I got at least 35 off my plants this a/m and about another 20 left on them; not quite ready to pick...

guess its time to cut/freeze!

Kinda the same thing.... I live here in NE Iowa. Hot and Banana peppers did ok. but my bells were small and small quanitities.... They were about 1/2 the size of what you by at the store...

Sweet peppers don't like the hot & dry conditions that the hot peppers like. In hot years here, the hot peppers have always done better than the sweet types. People have mentioned in the past that the sweets will do better as temps recede.

My sweet bell peppers have done great this year

Hi, I don't post that often, but I've had a terrific sweet pepper year. I'm in Southern Ontario and I'm harvesting my second batch of red, orange and yellow peppers. The yellow ones were especially large and delicious. I think it was a combination of their new location in my garden and the wonderful climate conditions this year.

Hi, I don't post that often, but I've had a terrific sweet pepper year. I'm in Southern Ontario and I'm harvesting my second batch of red, orange and yellow peppers. The yellow ones were especially large and delicious. I think it was a combination of their new location in my garden and the wonderful climate conditions this year.