2013 First Pepper Harvest

The end of April brought some nice peppers this year. Our yield looks like it will be greater then last year and our peppers are overall larger with great flavor.

 Hot Big Guy Peppers

 Costa Rican Peppers



New this year are Camelot Bell Peppers

 Mariachi Peppers

 New this year are Cubanelle Sweet Peppers

 California Wonder Bell Peppers

 Serrano Peppers

Basket of a nice variety of peppers at Alejandro Farm ;o)



California Wonder Bell Pepper

These beauties were sliced and BBQ with a brisket! Last year our California Wonders produced maybe one undersized pepper. It was very disappointing. Their second year is yielding much more. These are the first to be harvested with more on the way! Our second year is turning out to be a great yield of peppers! Yea.

Something is Lurking in our Pepper Patch

Texas Brown Anole Lizard has been lurking around our pepper garden lately. We wrote about these last year and are really good for your garden. They love to eat insects and are able to help keep the numbers down on the flies.

 Hot Big Guy Peppers

 California Wonder Bell Peppers

Camelot Sweet Bell Peppers

Costa Rican Peppers 

 Mariachi Peppers



Cubanelle Sweet Peppers

Our first harvest of the season are the new Cubanelle sweet peppers. It simply didn't take long for these new plants to produce. Our Cubanelle's plants have several more peppers on there way.

 Our sweet heat peppers yielded some nice peppers again this year early.

 Tomato Patch

 Bush Goliath

 Celebrity

Roma

New Additions to Alejandro Farm

This year (2013) we added Cubanelle Sweet Peppers and Camelot Sweet Peppers to our Alejandro Farm. The Cubanelle's were a larger plant when we purchased them and are produce fruit just about 5 weeks after planting.

Cubanelle Sweet Peppers at Alejandro Farm

Cubanelle Sweet Peppers at Alejandro Farm

Cubanelle Sweet Peppers at Alejandro Farm

 

Camelot Sweet Bell Peppers



Sweet California Wonder Peppers

Our Sweet California Wonder peppers are really producing this year at Alejandro Farm! That's exciting. Last year our plants were really stressed out when they arrived and they didn't produce much fruit at all. To say the least we were quite disappointed with their yield. After pruning back these plants they are really showing great promise this year. The size of these standard bell peppers are looking good.

Tomato Patch 4 Weeks Later

Our tomato patch is really growing fast in the last 4 weeks. Lots of blossoms and are excited to see how our yield will turnout. 

Four Weeks Earlier:

The Bush Goliath's are the first to produce fruit and are a thick and full plant after 4 weeks of transplanting. The celebrity tomato's are the slower growing tomato plant that we've seen so far. The Romas have been really exploded and are starting to yield fruit as well.

Bonsai Sweet Heat Peppers

The sweet heat peppers in 2nd year certainly are keeping up with their reputation of bearing fruit first! Even if they look like Bonsai pepper plants. Yep, after pruning just 8 weeks ago the peppers are popping out. Our plants at Alejandro are much smaller due to the pruning but these sweet heat peppers are healthy with strong trunks and mature enough to blossom and produce.

It was unintentional to create small Bonsai peppers plants. In our first year we assumed that these plants would grow out again before baring fruit. We learned that these plants are mature enough to bare fruit even with just a few branches. It will be fun to see how these Sweet heats yield this year.  



Tomato Patch at Alejandro Farms

Phase 2 of Alejandro Farm is now complete with a tomato patch for early 2013. We installed some nice pave stone to help keep area clean and free of weeds and easy to access  to plants. We also reconfigured our irrigation system to make room for the expansion of tomato patch and also phase 3. The irrigation now has 3 manual shut-off valves to allow targeted watering throughout seasons. As before, we feature an auto distribution of liquid plant food to our Peppers, Tomato's and Strawberries.

 In our first year of Bonnie tomato plants we are growing Roma's, Celebrity, and Bush Goliath's.

 The mixture of soil we used for this years tomato patch.

Alejandro Farm now consist of Peppers, Tomato's, and Strawberries. Phase three will be coming in spring. 

First Strawberry on Valentines!

Our first strawberry (Quinault) is ready for pickin on Valentines Day! We hope to have a good first season with these strawberries to make homemade preserves. Hm, Hm, Hm. The taste was nice and sweet and provided some insight of what may be coming.

Dave Alexander
dave@justgofishin.com

Strawberries at Alejandro Farm

We were able to give away several of our Serrano peppers to some friends in Rockport, TX to make room for Strawberries this year. Yep, we'll be growing Seascape, Ozark Beauties and Quinault's. Looking forward to see which strawberries perform the best.

The transplant went smoothly and starting to get berries.

Peppers Plants 4 Weeks After Pruning

The Season is yearly but we're getting some nice growth out of our second year pepper plants. We are continuing to water once every other day since the weather is still very cool at night. The pictures following show our pepper plants 4 weeks after pruning back old limbs.

The Serrano peppers are really thriving as you can see there growth has really responded the the fertilizer we gave them.

 (Serrano Peppers Above)

The Sweet Heat Peppers (above) are getting an early start was well. They were the first to produce fruit last year and we're hoping for another great year.

The California Wonder (above and below) bell peppers were really a bust yielding just a few peppers. Looks like there getting off to an early start as well and hopeful for a better performance.

The Costa Rican peppers (above and below) are lookin a little shabby but they should make it just fine. This was one of our favorites from last year.

The Mariachi Peppers (above and below) look like they are still in some shock but are coming out of it. Probably our favorite in taste and yield.

We are in the process of adding another row to Alejandro Pepper farm were we'll be planting tomatoes. to make room for our Tangerine Dream peppers we'll be giving away 6 of 8 Serrano pepper tubs. Updates to follow.