Pepper ProvisionsĪfter setting out your peppers, mix 2 tablespoons of fish emulsion into 1 gallon of water, and water your peppers with it. When putting each pepper in place, gently spread its roots apart before covering those roots with soil. After removing the peppers from their containers, insert them into those openings, digging holes large enough to set the plants 1 inch deeper than they grew in their original containers. If there are no planting openings in your plastic mulch, use a bulb planter or empty can to punch 3-inch-diameter holes 18 inches apart from each other. RELATED: 7 Fertilizer Mistakes Most Home Gardeners Make Pepper Placement If you intend to use containers instead, fill them with fresh organic potting mix and place only one plant in each pot. Burpee recommends covering that ground with black polyethylene mulch to warm the soil quickly, help keep it damp, and suppress weeds. Gardeners who would prefer kinder, gentler peppers may want to opt for Burpee’s ‘ Habanada,’ advertised as the “first heatless habanero.” It reportedly tastes “tropical,” but, as for those Scoville units-“nada.” People who like a little more flame in the flavor than that possessed by such sweet peppers, but don’t want a raging bonfire, should try poblano chili peppers first, moving up the scale to jalapeños if the poblanos aren’t hot stuff enough.Īt the same time you begin hardening off your peppers, spread compost over the soil in their future bed and till it in to a depth of 8 inches. However, plants can be ordered from Burpee or purchased at garden centers that carry Burpee products. At present, seeds of ‘Armageddon’ appear to be more readily obtainable from British seed sellers than from American companies. Those fruits require 90 to 95 days to mature, “igniting” from green to sizzling red. ‘ Armageddon’ pepper plants grow 2 ½ feet tall, with an average spread of 1 ½ feet, and produce fruits up to 2 inches long. Although not king of the heat, ‘Armageddon’-developed by Britain’s Tozer Seeds-is still likely to catch fire with pepper lovers since it matures earlier than the Reaper. Originally based on the dilution required to eliminate the burn from peppers, these days the Scoville scale measures the alkaloids present in those fruits that cause their searing flavor.
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