Hello fellow Chileheads, Gardeners and new subscribers!
I hope everyone is surviving the Drought of '99 without too many
problems. We've been getting some fabulous rain this past week.
Between the heat and recent rainfall our pepper plants look great.
We're starting the first stage of seed separation and storage on the
early maturing varieties. Right now it's the Turkish Cayenne, Thai Sun,
Pueblo, Bermuda and Hot Lemon that are loaded with mature peppers.
Thank God the Hot Lemon peppers are here because I just started to run
out of the 1999 seeds. I think it sold so well because of how great it
looks on the internet in terms of color and shape. To view it click
here-----> http://www.pepperjoe.com/cgi-bin/web_sto...
Our artwork is done by our neighbor John Molino who is an art student.
The coloring of the hot peppers is done by another art student, Jessica
Urban, my sons girlfriend. These are 2 very talented people who help us
to bring an accurate picture to you of what the seeds will grow up to
look like. Then the whole package goes to Bernie Klopp from Brainstorm
Communications Inc. who is a design genius. Bernie is our webmaster as
well
as our catalog designer. The bottom line is that the peppers look
fantastic!
Well the letters are rolling in as usual and I answer every one. Some
great topics come up and I feature them in this newsletter. The last
issue was about Container Gardening. This issue we'll touch base on
overwintering hot peppers as well as making your own beef jerky.
"Ask Pepper Joe"
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> Hi Joe,
> Excellent site, and you can expect an order for some varieties of
> peppers very soon.
> I have been told that peppers (some varieties of peppers) are perennial
> in nature in their original "country". I tried that on a cayenne pepper
> last Winter, and kept it under fluorescents over the Winter. We had
> peppers until January. This past Spring, I put it in the garden and it
> started to flower almost immediately and therefore extending the season
> quite a bit (still producing as we speak). The plant started to
> produce about a month earlier than the ones started by seed earlier this
> year. It was slightly more woody in the lower plant area and stayed at
> about the same height of around 3 feet. I live on the northern edge of
