tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-76452556287788095232024-03-21T07:30:12.092-07:00Alejandro Pepper FarmPatti & Dave Alexanderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14948835002573885520noreply@blogger.comBlogger34125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7645255628778809523.post-60878178296323082662013-04-30T18:37:00.001-07:002013-04-30T18:37:15.364-07:002013 First Pepper Harvest<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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. </div>
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Hot Big Guy Peppers</div>
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Costa Rican Peppers</div>
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New this year are Camelot Bell Peppers</div>
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Mariachi Peppers</div>
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New this year are Cubanelle Sweet Peppers</div>
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California Wonder Bell Peppers</div>
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Serrano Peppers</div>
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Basket of a nice variety of peppers at Alejandro Farm ;o)</div>
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Patti & Dave Alexanderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14948835002573885520noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7645255628778809523.post-20645434882869015572013-04-27T07:40:00.000-07:002013-04-27T07:40:39.837-07:00California Wonder Bell Pepper<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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. </div>
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Patti & Dave Alexanderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14948835002573885520noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7645255628778809523.post-61859736606906165812013-04-13T10:21:00.000-07:002013-04-13T10:21:51.284-07:00Something is Lurking in our Pepper Patch<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<a href="http://alejandrofarm.blogspot.com/2012/06/texas-brown-anole-lizard.html" target="_blank">Texas Brown Anole Lizard</a> 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. </div>
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Hot Big Guy Peppers</div>
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California Wonder Bell Peppers</div>
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Camelot Sweet Bell Peppers </div>
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Costa Rican Peppers </div>
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Mariachi Peppers</div>
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Patti & Dave Alexanderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14948835002573885520noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7645255628778809523.post-57755040142299646302013-04-06T12:28:00.002-07:002013-04-06T12:29:33.028-07:00Cubanelle Sweet Peppers<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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. </div>
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Our sweet heat peppers yielded some nice peppers again this year early. </div>
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Patti & Dave Alexanderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14948835002573885520noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7645255628778809523.post-67905221983691675692013-03-28T07:00:00.000-07:002013-03-28T07:00:05.068-07:00New Additions to Alejandro FarmThis year (2013) we added <a href="http://bonnieplants.com/products/vegetables/peppers/cubanelle-pepper" target="_blank">Cubanelle Sweet Peppers</a> and <a href="http://www.osborneseed.com/product-details.cfm?pepper--camelot-f1" target="_blank">Camelot Sweet Peppers</a> 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. <br />
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Patti & Dave Alexanderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14948835002573885520noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7645255628778809523.post-82144955517576769502013-03-26T07:00:00.000-07:002013-03-26T07:00:02.098-07:00Sweet California Wonder Peppers<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
Our <a href="http://www.burpee.com/vegetables/peppers/sweet-peppers/bell/pepper-sweet-california-wonder-prod000825.html" target="_blank">Sweet California Wonder peppers</a> 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 <a href="http://www.burpee.com/vegetables/peppers/sweet-peppers/bell/pepper-sweet-california-wonder-prod000825.html" target="_blank">standard bell peppers</a> are looking good. </div>
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Patti & Dave Alexanderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14948835002573885520noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7645255628778809523.post-19842062928055757402013-03-25T15:44:00.000-07:002013-03-25T15:47:09.381-07:00Tomato Patch 4 Weeks Later<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
Our tomato patch is really growing fast in the <a href="http://alejandrofarm.blogspot.com/2013/02/tomato-patch-at-alejandro-farms.html" target="_blank">last 4 weeks</a>. Lots of blossoms and are excited to see how our yield will turnout. </div>
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The <a href="http://bonnieplants.com/products/vegetables/tomato-varieties/all-tomatoes/bush-goliath-tomato" target="_blank">Bush Goliath's</a> 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. </div>
Patti & Dave Alexanderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14948835002573885520noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7645255628778809523.post-78055213704331863342013-02-27T08:05:00.000-08:002013-02-27T08:07:02.420-08:00Bonsai Sweet Heat Peppers<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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.</div>
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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. </div>
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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. </div>
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In our first year of <a href="http://bonnieplants.com/" target="_blank">Bonnie tomato plants</a> we are growing <a href="http://bonnieplants.com/products/roma-tomato" target="_blank">Roma's</a>, <a href="http://bonnieplants.com/products/most-popular/celebrity-tomato" target="_blank">Celebrity</a>, and <a href="http://bonnieplants.com/products/vegetables/tomato-varieties/all-tomatoes/bush-goliath-tomato" target="_blank">Bush Goliath's</a>. <br />
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Alejandro Farm now consist of Peppers, Tomato's, and Strawberries. Phase three will be coming in spring. </div>
Patti & Dave Alexanderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14948835002573885520noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7645255628778809523.post-45058041265481359902013-02-15T10:30:00.001-08:002013-02-15T10:30:24.682-08:00First Strawberry on Valentines!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
Our first strawberry (<a href="http://bonnieplants.com/products/quinault-strawberry" target="_blank">Quinault</a>) 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. </div>
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<a href="mailto:dave@justgofishin.com">dave@justgofishin.com</a> Patti & Dave Alexanderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14948835002573885520noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7645255628778809523.post-63100331245335433592013-02-11T14:43:00.001-08:002013-02-11T14:44:01.556-08:00Strawberries at Alejandro Farm<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">
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. </div>
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The transplant went smoothly and starting to get berries. </div>
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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. </div>
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The Serrano peppers are really thriving as you can see there growth has really responded the the fertilizer we gave them. <br />
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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. <br />
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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. <br />
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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. <br />
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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. <br />
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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. </div>
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Patti & Dave Alexanderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14948835002573885520noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7645255628778809523.post-24294673737666675672013-01-19T17:55:00.000-08:002013-01-19T17:55:49.325-08:00Germinating New for 2013<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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Day one of our germination with Tangerine Dreams on the Left and Tomato Seedless Hybrid on the right. Follow me on our 2013 Alejandro pepper farm season. </div>
Patti & Dave Alexanderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14948835002573885520noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7645255628778809523.post-34070984814805756152012-12-24T12:53:00.000-08:002012-12-24T12:53:02.455-08:00Pruning Back Pepper PlantsThe season is over and time to cut back our pepper plants and prepare for our next crop. Pruning back each plant can be a little tricky. Watching for new growth around the trunk and near where branches split off is a great place to start. <br />
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Alejandro Pepper Farm after pruning</div>
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Serrano Pepper Plants after pruning</div>
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Sweet Heat Pepper plants after pruning</div>
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Hot Big Guy Peppers after pruning</div>
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Costa Rican Pepper plant after pruning</div>
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Mariachi Pepper plant after pruning</div>
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Serrano Peppers new growth after pruning</div>
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In preparing for the colder month's we pruned down each pepper plant and reduced the irrigation down to once every other day. With the irrigation we added plant growth fertilizer to stimulate each plant.</div>
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Almost the end of our pepper season. After picking several nice peppers from the Alejandro Farm today, I can tell this will be almost the end. Yep, there aren't any new blossoms on our plants so it's looking like the end of a great season. Harvesting Mariachi, Serrano, Sweet Heat, Hot Big Guy's, and we finally got some California Wonders. We've sure enjoyed our first season of gardening. Patti & Dave Alexanderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14948835002573885520noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7645255628778809523.post-28910693202809322892012-09-09T08:00:00.000-07:002012-09-09T08:00:05.417-07:00Alejandro Texas Salsa<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
The fruits of our Alejandro labors. Making salsa using peppers from our pepper farm! Very satisfying and very good! We chopped up Serrano, Costa Rican, and Hot Big Guy peppers. Picked up some Roma tomatoes, green onions, and red onions at a local produce store called "<a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Fruit-King/140523112650540" target="_blank">Fruit King</a>" which is downtown Corpus Christi.</div>
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Our mixture of chopped peppers, onions, and tomatoes with other spices. </div>
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Added tomato Sauce and paste and heated to boiling for 10 minutes. </div>
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Canned hot and boiled jars for 10 more minutes.</div>
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Walla, canned Alejandro Texas Salsa.</div>
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Lastest picture of Alejandro Pepper Farm. Not bad using a side of the house driveway area where we use to store a Sea Doo trailer. ;o)</div>
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Patti & Dave Alexanderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14948835002573885520noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7645255628778809523.post-38711621214010255832012-09-08T08:14:00.000-07:002012-09-09T09:16:39.247-07:00Second Harvest at Alejandro Pepper Farm<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
What a nice second harvest at Alejandro pepper farm. The top left side of basket are Costa Rican peppers, top right side are Serrano peppers, bottom left side are Hot Big Guy peppers, bottom middle are Mariachi peppers, and the bottom right are Sweet Heat peppers. </div>
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It's time to make some salsa!</div>
Patti & Dave Alexanderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14948835002573885520noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7645255628778809523.post-62865891668597414242012-09-07T08:06:00.000-07:002012-09-07T08:07:05.654-07:00First Pepper Harvest at Alejandro<div style="text-align: left;">
Our first harvest on September 1st at Alejandro pepper farm was modest but fruitful. We chopped them up for the freezer for a future use. </div>
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Hot Big Guys were a little smaller than expected but very good to the taste.</div>
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The Sweet Heat peppers had a great sweet mild taste. Our pepper plants are producing lots of fruit. </div>
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The Mariachi Peppers are fun because of their orange and yellow colors they produce. </div>
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Serrano Peppers are plentiful! </div>
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Costa Rican peppers are large and full of flavor.</div>
Patti & Dave Alexanderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14948835002573885520noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7645255628778809523.post-7753200185517193032012-08-14T12:28:00.001-07:002012-08-14T12:28:24.113-07:00Pepper Plants Baring FruitIt's been a few weeks since our last post and the peppers are really multiplying. It's exciting to see your work start to payoff as we are getting very close to harvesting time for many of these peppers on the Alejandro farm.<br />
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Mariachi Peppers</h3>
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Hot Big Guy Peppers</h3>
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Sweet Costa Rican Peppers</h3>
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Sweet Heat Peppers</h3>
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Serrano Peppers</h3>
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California Wonder Peppers</h3>
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We added a new shot of fertilizer to the irrigation and moved to a 3 times per day watering as we get closer to harvesting. </div>
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Peppers are starting to show signs of explosion, meaning that the yield is picking up the pace. Especially the Sweet Heat Peppers. We are getting a lot of blossoms on all the pepper plants. </div>
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The sweet heat peppers are startiing to yield several peppers. The plant is smaller that the others but plentiful in fruit. <br />
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The Serrano's are starting to yield several peppers. </div>
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Our smallest plants are the Tangerine Dream peppers. We actually have one plant barring fruit. </div>
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The Alejandro Pepper farm is really growing fast and are excited as we enter the harvesting season. </div>Patti & Dave Alexanderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14948835002573885520noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7645255628778809523.post-28069910150499636432012-07-02T07:00:00.000-07:002012-07-02T07:00:02.570-07:00First Pepper at Alejandro Farm<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
Our first pepper at Alejandro Farm, <a href="http://www.burpee.com/vegetables/peppers/hot-peppers/pepper-hot-sweet-heat-hybrid-prod002735.html" target="_blank">Sweet Heat Pepper</a>. Our pepper plants have expoded with growth these last few weeks. Pictured below is the pepper farm right after a thunderstorm. The got beat up a little but will be fine. The umbrellas we added provided a nice protection. We adjusted our automated irrigation down to twice a day. </div>
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Bugs have been enjoying the leaves on our pepper plants. As you can see the holes all over the leaves. After doing some research we tried spraying soap water on leaves and found some moderate possitive results. I have also heard from a neighbor that using small amount of garlic juice mixed with water and sprayed on leaves is a good deterant as well. </div>
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One of the residents on our Alejandro Pepper farm is the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_Anole" target="_blank">Texas Brown Anole Lizard</a>. These lizards are originally from Cuba and the Bahamas. On our farm he like to eat insects like spiders and cockroaches. This particular anole lost his tale at some point and grew back another one. Loosing their tales is a defensive move so they can get away from preditors like snakes and birds. Most likely our cat or dogs that enjoy chasing them around.</div>
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Patti & Dave Alexanderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14948835002573885520noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7645255628778809523.post-55520448082776211922012-06-09T16:32:00.001-07:002012-06-09T16:37:18.308-07:00First Pepper Blossoms for 2012Our first pepper blossoms are coming out. Very exciting stuff as these pepper plants settle in their new home at Alejandro Pepper Farm. We gave them a shot of fertilizer and we can see a noticeable difference in their growth rate. Below is the first evidence of a blossom from the <a href="http://www.burpee.com/vegetables/peppers/hot-peppers/pepper-hot-sweet-heat-hybrid-prod002735.html?catId=3028&trail=" target="_blank">burpee sweet heat pepper</a> plant. <br />
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Our irrigation system seems to be working out very well with a occasional blow-out on the tube connections. Hey, we've got 50 psi coming through these lines. Guess I'll have to get the zip ties out. Still watering 4 times a day with 2 minutes per cycle. </div>Patti & Dave Alexanderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14948835002573885520noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7645255628778809523.post-37004634087829707032012-06-08T17:19:00.000-07:002012-06-08T17:19:10.893-07:00Paper Wasps vs Leafminer FliesOur secret weapon against the <a href="http://alejandrofarm.blogspot.com/2012/06/leafminer-flies-on-pepper-plants.html" target="_blank">leaf minors</a> is the common paper wasp. They have built up a colony under the house easement above Alejandro Pepper Farm. These <a href="http://www.thenatureinus.com/2007/07/living-with-beneficial-paper-wasps.html" target="_blank">paper wasps</a> are known to enjoy feeding on caterpillars, flies, and many other pesky insects that feed on our crops. <br />
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Though there sting can be strong, these wasps are basically social and only attack when defending themselves and their home. The nest pictured should be about as big as it gets since they're nest typically are up to about 30 wasps. I've destroyed these in the past but now I'm understanding the benefits they have for our garden. They pollinate and feed on nectar and eat flies to feed to their larva.<br />Patti & Dave Alexanderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14948835002573885520noreply@blogger.com1