Antohi Romani sweet peppers - they start cream, then orange, and finally red. I don't grow bells anymore, as these have much less waste for me and taste better while still immature. That is a 4" raised bed with 29 plants in a 3 row staggered/diamond. I do a straight line Florida Weave twice for each row, then the third layer is complete loops of each row, then cross linked left to middle and then repeated right to middle. I do eggplant the same way. It makes a nice stable grid.
These peppers seedlings looked absolutely terrible back in May...I pulled two leaves mid-way up on each plant that got sick in the little plastic greenhouse with the cold, wet spring. This made them appear very leggy. A very rough start, but they are producing like usual. I'm not sure what we'll do with extras as I have plenty of pickled sweet peppers leftover from last year.
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