vegeable garden

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Chervena Chushka

A Bulgarian heirloom with bright red, very sweet flesh, 6” by 2”. Ripening from green to red this is an excellent very productive variety. Traditionally used for roasting but is excellent fresh. Does well in cold, wet weather.

Chervena Chushka Pepper
Doe Hill

Pre-1900. A very rare family heirloom from Doe Hill area of Highland County, Virginia. This is without a doubt one of the very best peppers for short season areas and one of the tastiest.  The small round lobed peppers turn gold at maturity. They are very sweet and productive. Excellent in salads or any dish that requires sweet peppers. These would also make cute little stuffed peppers. 

Doe Hill Pepper
King of the North

Pre-1937. A great pepper for northern gardeners, this large, blocky, very sweet pepper has thick firm flesh. A great pepper for stuffing or eating fresh, one of the best red bell peppers for a short season area.

King of the North Pepper
Orange Bell

An excellent variety that produces large, mostly four lobed, bright orange bell peppers with thick sweet flesh. This extremely productive plant is excellent as a green bell pepper as well. A gem in the garden.

Orange Bell Pepper
Tolli's Sweet Italian Pepper

75-85 days. This easy to grow, small 1’ Italian heirloom pepper is perfect for container gardening.  Producing lots of long 4-5” red fruits when mature, they are very sweet, an excellent choice for fresh eating, canning, or in tomato sauces.

Tolli Pepper
Hungarian Yellow Wax Pepper

60-85 days.  An old Hungarian variety that does well in our cool northern climates.  This long banana-shaped fruit mature from green to yellow to red.  Medium hot and spicy.

Wax Pepper
Nosegay

70-80 days.  This lovely 6” high pepper is perfect for container gardening, window boxes and garden borders. With dense foliage the round fruits are marble-size which turn from a pale green to orange to red when ripe. These tiny fruits all ripen at different times giving a wonderful bouquet of colours.  The fruit is edible but it is hot. This is a Rare plant.

Nosegay Pepper
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What is companion planting?

Every plant lives in a community and, like you and I, a plant has neighbours it likes and those it does not.


Plants also have pest issues. While a bug may love to munch on one plant there are others that repel the bug through smell, taste, or the chemicals it exudes. Planting the repelling plant by the plant that the bug is targeting provides it with protection from these pests without the use of harsh chemicals or pesticides.

To avoid spraying pesticides and herbicides on the food we serve ourselves and our family we can plant herbs to deter the problem from the very beginning. This is known as companion planting.

Sweet peppers are compatible with okra and basil.
Okra will provide a windbreak for a tender pepper plant.
Hot red peppers ground and spread around eggplants & rubbed on the leaves repel eggplant pests.
Dried hot red peppers ground and sprinkled on corn silk repels raccoons.

For more information on companion planting, please follow the link below.

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