Gardening with Allen: Top honors go to trio of tasty veggies
Pepper Pot-a-peno is a enjoyable new jalapeno pepper with a compact behavior that’s good for rising in containers and hanging baskets. Crops produce a number of small, inexperienced jalapeno fruits which have a flavorful zip that’s nice in any dish that you really want a bit of spice in. Go away the fruit on the plant a bit of longer and it’ll flip vibrant pink. Pot-a-peno ripens sooner than different jalapenos and grows effectively each within the backyard and in pots. Every plant produces 35 or extra 3 to 4 inch fruits. Pepper seeds are finest began indoors about six to eight weeks earlier than transplanting from the skin.
All three of those new strains are F-1 hybrids with built-in vigor and uniformity for prime yields.
New strains are typically tough to search out within the first yr of their introduction. On-line and mail order seed catalogs are your finest supply. I discovered Pot-a-peno at parkseed.com. Park Seed additionally has final yr’s winner, Cucumber Inexperienced Gentle, which labored splendidly for me each in a container and within the floor final yr, producing dozens of 10 to five inches of delicate, smooth-skinned fruit. Different seed sources are listed at all-americaselections.org. Nurseries and full-service nurseries can typically be persuaded to develop or supply crops upon request in January.
Allen Wilson is a gardening specialist primarily based in Vancouver. allenw98663@yahoo.com
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