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| Well, at least the little tag picture is encouraging! |
While visiting a local grocery store in my town, I purchased
one of those little four cell trays of vegetable plant starts that are so
prevalent this time of year. The little stick informed me that these were
Jupiter peppers. I’d never grown this particular variant before and was curious
as to how they would turn out.
The four little plants looked healthy. Not lanky like some
of the other peppers that were offered. After I got home, I browsed the
internet to see if there was any information. Surprisingly, there was not all
that much. One site informed me that the mature plant was prolific and produced
‘thick walled’ fleshy plants. Another
indicated that they did ‘well’ in Missouri.
Hmmm. OK, sounds good to me. I’m a game animal.
I planted two of these in a front small raised bed and two
in the backyard in a much larger and more established bed. That front bed was
built just a few days ago and I used a soil mix from a company called ‘Earthgro’
which is produced by the Hyponex Corporation. The forty pound bags I used are
no doubt on the lower end of the scale of products they offer. (My bags of dirt
cost just $2.50 each, but I will say that the feel of the soil was encouraging).
So, two plants in ‘new’ soil versus two
plants in aged soil that has seen about seven years of use. This could be
interesting!
At some point, most likely around August, I’ll do a post on
how well these little guys turned out. Just do a search on this blog, using the
word ‘Jupiter’.
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