Nice blog, Steve. Your peppers are looking good. I wish I'd kept all of mine in pots. I especially like the little lime tree. Hope you get some fruit. You might consider a variety of strawberry called Fragisimmo. It's an ever bearing with pink blossoms and fruits twice during the season. I grow them in the flower border. Fruit has decent flavor and size.

Sweet...thanks for the info, sprouts. I want to start a fruit or two more next year, so I may add that to the list. =) Yea, I love that lime tree too. I bought it from Spring Hill (ahhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!) & received late May/early June of this year. Despite Spring Hill's not so great reputation, it arrived quite healthy looking & was about 10 or so inches tall. It continues to grow quite well (probably about at 2 feet now), so i'm hoping it will give me some limes as early as next year. I'm wicked excited about my peppers this year, having not reveived a single one last year due to aphids & spider mites (see my "spider mites are the devil" thread...lol). My serrano "tree" has 26 growing on it as of Saturday & I counted 9 little peppers on the Hab plant too! My bells are finally starting to grow (one fruit a little over an inch long & 7-8 more on the way...1/2 cm long or so), so that's a plus. Anyways, thanks for the compliment.

- Steve

I thought it was funny (in an aggravating / sad kind of way) that your early girls are getting ready to turn. Early tomatoes in mid August!! I'm pretty much the same boat, though. No ripe ones, just a bunch of greenies. Oh, and to stay somewhat on topic, my peppers have finally started to grow in the past couple weeks. So far, all I've had is 1 Bulgarian Carrot, and a couple of Serrano's. Cayennes, Red Mushrooms, and Tabascos, have just started to set fruit in the past week - 10 days. ssoooooo far behind this year!

tsheets: Lol...yeah...Late Girl, maybe? ;-) I think that month full of rain postponed Summer, long & short of it. It's causing the grow season to be off & affect almost everything. Some things more than others. Anyways, I counted 9 Serrano's (actual pepper fruit visible) on Thursday & 26 on Saturday, so I hear ya! =) My bells are taking off bigtime too. My Cali Wonder has 4 growing on it (one that's almost 2 inches long now! I don't think it'll take the usual 8 or so weeks for a bell). My Yellow Bell has 3 confirmed growing on it. My Hab is taking off like the Serrano, ton of Jal's, etc...Anyways, yea, everything pepper-wise started taking off a week or two ago. Except my Hot Hungarian Wax which i've picked 8 or so good sized peppers off of so far (and will have 3-4 more within a week). I think it must be somewhat weather resistant. I want to save seeds from it just for that fact. Well, gotta go to sleep now.

Peace - Steve

Really like your blog! I'm growing a lot of the same stuff - cucumbers, beans, peas, toms, peppers, and herbs. What size pots are you using? Those look like 12" or maybe even 10". I have about 30 varieties of toms, peppers, cucumbers, eggplant, etc., growing in 12" and 14" pots and will DEFINITELY only use 14" for nightshades next year based on this experience. The 12" are too small for some of the mature plants, though they certainly seemed large enough earlier in the season.

Thanks, megachili. =) Most of my pepper plants are in the 12 inch pots (3 gallons, I believe). A few are still in 1 gallon nursery containers (not too affected at all by the small size) & 2 more are in those approx 2 gallon beer buckets. They are doing just fine, as my Serrano is one of them which now has over 30 peppers growing on it with many more to come very soon. My maters (except for hanging basket Cherry's) are in 10 gallon containers. The cukes & beans are doing great in their beds. Though, the cukes are trying to take over the bean bed! I attempted to remove one from invading the beans yesterday & now it's laying on the ground. :-\ I set a piece of bamboo stake by it that i'm gonna attempt to train it to climb. So, hopefully, that won't affect it too much.

Hey Steve, good info, thanks. I've got some Cucumbers Gone Wild, too. I thought this pic was funny, although it doesn't capture the full scope of the cucumber rampage going on in my backyard. The cuke vines are covering around 30 square feet of ground and truly growing like weeds now. I like them, actually - they give a livelier vibe to the whole project than a bunch of peppers sitting in their assigned spots.

-Larry

Larry: I'm still continually training my cukes away from my beans! They're taking over bigtime. lol...Anyways, I just posted a good mostly pepper update on my blog. Link above for Steve's Garden takes you there. I should be picking well over 100 peppers within the next 2 weeks or so (not sure on the maturity time of some of them, so may be +/- a week or so).

- Steve

I have to directly link at least one pic. ;-) My first bell pepper, finally, after they dropped flowers like crazy for the longest time...

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