Planting Peppers in Containers
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- Опубликовано: 11 июн 2018
- A Harvesting History Planting Tutorial. Simple, easy to understand and short tutorial on how to grow peppers in containers. The researchers at Harvesting History have been studying container gardening for years. They have completed more than 4200 plantings in 14 years.
just love your delivery! youre not out there trying to elevate yourself. youre genuinely trying to teach people how to grow! thats pretty awesome in my book. Thank you!!
Bless you, you get it. Thank you.
Love when you said you gave yourselves the award! Your videos are so easy to follow. Starting my first container garden with peppers and tomatoes this year thanks to you!
Pat, sorry for the late reply. Hope you are tremendously successful and thank you for the kind comments.
I'm excited to start my container garden now that I found these great instructions. Thank you so much!
You were starting your container garden a couple years ago....how is it going? Did you have good luck following her recommendations? I did tomatos and peppers last year but started around June and did not have a great harvest. This year I started in April and just planted out some of my best seedlings tonight. I came back to watch the vid to be sure I did it right. I did not use crummy back yard soil, but when I plant out my next ones I will replace some of the store bought with backyard soil and see if notice a difference. ❤ Fingers crossed for a good weather & good harvest this year.
Barb, you are a gift. Thank you!
I’m sorry Barbara, I just had to laugh when you showed us your “crummy backyard soil,”it looks like gold compared to our light brown sandy seashell-filled coastal Florida soil.😂 Great for mangos and citrus but not so much for veggies....definitely going to have to buy the topsoil....
Thanks for doing these straightforward educational gardening videos. I will try this for our next planting season (this fall) & check out your online store as we are just getting into heirloom veggies.👍🏼🙏🏻
It might be true of some types, but I had serranos planted fairly close together last summer and they produced like crazy.
Peppers love to be planted close to each other...mine love it!
If you played a drinking game and had to take a shot every time she said "crummy" back yard soil, you'd be too hammered to make it to the end of the video.
I love that word, crummy, Paul. It has a nice ring to it.😁
you have a lot of knowledge about planter growing plants. Thanks
Gerda, Thank you and thank you for taking your time to watch our Harvesting History videos.
Thank you so much for your answer!
Great video.
Awesome teacher 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 Thank you!
Thank you Andrea, I hope you enjoy much success with your gardening.
Hi Barbara. It is your friend, Lisa in Connecticut. I know this video is 2 years old but I just stumbled across it today. Outstanding information and very valuable content. Thank you again for all the effort you put into making your videos. I can't wait to sing to my Gold cup plant 😉
Hi Lisa, has the goldcup bloomed for you yet?
@@BarbaraMelera It did, the first year, and it was beautiful. Unfortunately the second year I forgot to bring it in before frost and it died😞. I was so upset with myself.
Question for you, can you please check the status of my two citrus trees that are on order? Perhaps they haven't shipped because of the temperature? It's been longer than I expected.
@@connecticutwormsgardens Lisa, it has been longer than we expected for shipping your citrus trees, but this is the first week we have had temps out of the 40s during the day and it has been way too cold at night. I plan to start shipping trees next week. You should have yours by Friday or Saturday of next week. Sorry for the delay, but all of us are at the mercy of the weather.
@@BarbaraMelera Thanks for the update. Look forward to receiving them 🤗
So helpful, right to the point 👏
Thank you, Lifescore
Love your videos! So precise & so easy to follow. Will use your guidance for my next tomatoes & squash etc., thank you! 10:25
Helen, you are very welcome. Thanks for your comment.
Going to try this.
I love this lady
Thanks for sharing
Do you use that same recipe with carrots along with the suggested food and thank you so much for your knowledge.
This lady cracks me up. I disagree with several assertions...but it’s still entertaining as hell. 🤣
Thank you, I think!
I followed Ms. Barbara indications last year and my garden did awesome. Please specify what is that you disagree on? I am a beginner gardeners and would like to know your point of view.
You are AWSOME! i live in central florida, zone 9. I am presently growing in 18 gallon tubs but seems like the soil is very compacted. I do everything you advised. I have very sandy soil with ants. Can i incorporate the sandy soil instead of top soil? Even with the ants? Please advise. Thanks so much! Jean
Jean, I would mix your sandy soil with peat moss - 2 parts sandy soil to 1 part peat moss and add some manure or compost. The problem with ants in containers is that the ants sometimes build huge underground nests in the containers which damage the roots of the plants in the containers.
Good Morning, Barb!
When I plant my peppers, do I twist off the lower leaves and bury the stem deep, as you demonstrated in your tomato video?
Thank you for your expertise.
Kris, Good Morning to you. I always twist off the bottom leaves as I showed you in the tomato video, but I have no idea whether it does any good. Since tomatoes are vines, burying the stems/vines helps strengthen the plants, but peppers are not vines. So, who knows.
Greetings from Canada zone 5b....new gardner here..... 1st year... thanks
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Will the tomato tone work for bush beans too?
Question 1 - Have you ever used plastic totes instead of round pots to plant and grow in? The new totes I bought this year measure 28.6 inches wide by 19.6 inches in length and 15 inches in depth. These are 27 gallon in size and will hold 4 - 5 gallon buckets of soil. My mixture this year starts with 3 cuft of peat moss, 3 cuft of new top soil, 3 cuft of mushroom compost, 3 cuft of composted steer manure and 1 cuft of perlite. I do have some fairly used top soil that also has perlite added, I take 2 - 5 gallon pails of this for my first layer of soil and then add 1 more of the used top soil with 1 - 5 gallon pail of the above mixture and I am coming up with a PH reading of 5.8 to 6. Question 2 - With nearly 29 inches of room is there any reason why I can not have 2 plants in each of these containers?
I already purchased the offbrand tomato fertilizer from walmart. I will check to see if the nutrient breakdown is the same. I will buy the Tomato tone next year.
Beverly, you and your plants will be fine. Tomatone is just a little better.
@@BarbaraMelera OK. Thx. Its my 2nd year but last year was embarrassingly puny production per plant 😞👎. Tho the tomatos/peppers I produced were SOooo DELICIOUS .This year goal is 4x the production per plant. I love the confidence and clarity of the video, it's important to follow tried and true steps & follow the steps as close as possible. I already messed up tho. I had a lot of Better Boy not enough space so decided to do 2/pot. I just had no more room in my garage. I just separated them today hopefully will do ok despite the shock.
My whole life I wanted a garden I just never thought it was possible. Now I have 18 strawberries, 2 blueberry, 3 Raspberry, 14 tomato, 7 pepper, Red Lettuce, plus some onions & marigolds to deter pests. Excited for a good harvest. Thank you!!! ❤️👍
@@beverlycharles6534 Please let me know how your garden does this year and contact anytime with more questions. We would love to help.
Will you be doing a video on growing tomatoes from seed?
Not this year. Probably for 2022.
any particular brand of compost that you recommend from the big box stores?
I use chicken manure compost
Do you recommend the same schedule for peppers as for tomatoes concerning the fertilizing with bone meal and tomato tone which is one week bone meal one week tomato tone and repeat
Yes, Julie, but you also need Epsom Salts for peppers. The magnesium in Epsom Salts minimizes blossom and fruit drop.
do i add bone meal and totamo tone, both, every two weeks? or just tomato tone? What about liquid fertilizer?
Look at her video on Tomato's in pots and I think that explains it. But it's basically roughly every 3 weeks for copper fungicide I believe. That's what I'm doing.
Hi Barb! How many bell peppers will I be able to get from one plant. Will I need to plant several or will one give me enough productivity?
Hi Stanley, at most you will get 5 bell peppers from one plant and they usually ripen at the same time. I suggest you plant 3 plants.
This is probably a dumb question, but can you use this same recipe for growing herbs in containers also?
Ryan, your question is certainly not dumb, quite the opposite. Yes, you can use the same recipe for anything you put in containers. The difference is in how you amend the soil. TomatoTone is great for fruiting plants. GardenTone is better for herbs, salad greens etc. For roots TomatoTone works well.
Harvesting History LLC Thank you!
I heard you mention your company is located in NY, but when placing an order, I noticed the address was from North Carolina. Could you explain the difference?
Hi Dawn. I am not the author of the video, but I do know Barbara personally and have done extensive business with Harvesting History. Yes the company is headquartered in North Carolina - but they have several growing facilities including upstate New York and Pennsylvania. Most of the videos are filmed by Barbara and her location is in New York where they have a gorgeous and extremely large growing area. Harvesting history is amazing and the most honest legitimate company I have ever dealt with.
In my pepper bed I crowd them not tight but peppers love to be close to eachother!
If it works for you, then keep doing it.
I know this video is several years old, but do you still recommend the 14 in pot?
Excellent question. Yes, we still recommend the 14 inch diameter pot. You can use a 12 inch diameter pot, BUT the plant will be slightly less productive AND you will need to fertilize once a week as opposed to once every 2 weeks.
Beginner here living in Southern California. Do I need to worry about blight?
Jean, sorry for the delay in responding. We have not had problems with blight and the blights common to the eastern part of the continental US do not make it over the Rockies, so I cannot answer your question responsibly. Please consult your Agricultural Extension Service or local garden clubs.
What about the garden tone by the same company? That's what I have but if I need to buy tomato tone then so be it because I'm desperate at this point lol.
GardenTone is fine. The difference is that pepper plants like tomato plants produce fruit. To do this they require potassium and phosphorus more than nitrogen. GardenTone has more nitrogen. TomatoTone has more potassium and phosphorus, but either will help the plant and if you have GardenTone, use it.
Hello,question is Bonide garden dust the same as copper fungicide?
outdoorsey, I don't know. Check the ingredients label. If the major indredient is a copper compound like CuS04, then yes.
@@BarbaraMelera ok thank you for your helpful video!
Me again! I used this recipe for six tomato plants and 20 different kinds of peppers (bell, jalapeño, habanero, etc). My tomatoes aren’t doing too bad, have 6 on one plant, 3 on another with a ton of blooms. But I only have one jalapeño starting. I’m seeing a lot of blooms on my peppers turning yellow then falling off. What am I doing wrong? Oklahoma zone 7a. All get about 10 hours of sun.
Ryan, I don't know what you are doing wrong unless you are fertilizing with a high nitrogen fertilizer and not something like TomatoTone. I can help you fix the problem. Dissolve 1 tablespoon of Epsom Salts in a spray bottle of water and spray all of your pepper plants. Epsom Salts contain magnesium and that helps pepper plants to set fruit.
Harvesting History LLC Thank you! I will try that. I did read on several blogs and videos that they don’t like heat over 90°. Is been 95-100 for the last month and we just had our first rain in over a month two days ago. I did move them today to where they get more early morning sun until about 4:00 in the afternoon. I do alternate the bone meal and tomato tone every week. If I do epsom salt, should I stop with the tomato tone? Thank you for your help!!!
Ryan, keep up the TomatoTone.
@@harvestinghistoryllc3161 I am planning to add epsom salt to my pepper plant, how often should I add ? every two weeks or just few times a year?
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I have 12 inch grow bags will that work?
They will work. May limit the number of peppers slightly.
What can I use in place of bone meal. If I use bone meal or fish fertilizer every raccoon, skunk and possum within 10 miles digs up my garden.
KF S, use TUMS in the hole when you plant the seedling. 2 TUMS per hole. This should sove the problem.
@@harvestinghistoryllc3161 thank you
@@harvestinghistoryllc3161 What do you think about ground up egg shells in place of the Bone Meal?
How often are we doing the bone meal? Do we alternate the fungicide and tomatoe tone. Example one week tomatoe tone one week fungacidr? And how long do we do this.
@@marciadiehl5733 Add them now and they may be ready by next year.
Would you please recommend Home Depot compost in the bag.
Victoria, I haven't used it, but I will purchase some and see what it does.
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Vctoria, Is Phuong Ha related to you?
Harvesting History LLC yes, my name is Phuong Ha and my daughter is Victoria
It is lovely to meet you both. I hope you enjoy our videos and thanks you for your order. Your tree shipped today. It is a beauty.
What about perlite for drainage
Perlite is fine, but you don't have to have it.
Where would I get the I'm a beginner don't have my own yet
I meant to say compost I don't have it
How many pepers can you plant in 1 bucket?
One, Michael, one in a 14 inch diameter - 12 gallon container.
Press play and watch the video.
I'm gonna try 2 plants in one container
Good for you. If the container is large enough, it will work. Let us know how it turned out.
@@BarbaraMelera I'm just playing Mrs. Barb lol you remind me of a teacher I had! I'm definitely only planting 1 per container
@BarbaraMelera do you use brand new soil mixture every time or can you use the same soil in the container with the feeding technique you show
@@wokeswack101 I use the same soil year after year, BUT, you will lose 10-20% of the soil in your pots each year and here is how I replace it. After the first year I replace the lost soil with compost or manure - nothing else. After the second year I replace the lost soil with topsoil. I repeat this process each year alternating manure/compost with topsoil. It works well.
@@wokeswack101 Phew!! I am glad to hear that.😁
I was about to put 2 plants 😟😭
While it is true putting two plants in a pot won't result in complete failure, due to the fact you are effectively halving the space of the pot and putting competition in the pot it can reduce yield for both of the plants and is effectively wasting plants and reducing yield
I’ve made so many mistakes … including planting my three little pepper plant in one pot.😏
Contrary to the advice here, others claim they put more plants together to maximize aoace and peosuction.
Why bother with containers? Just plant them into your crummy backyard.
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Those pesky millennials!!!
Did you rrmove the lowe leaves before you burried the jalapeno plant my dear? Thanks
If the plant has very low leaves, I remove them, but otherwise I don't. I don't want to bury leaves so that is why I remove them. Hope this helps.