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Garden Gate:  Can I dig up planted peppers & put in greenhouse?  |
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krissy
True Blue Farmgirl
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Kristen
Snohomish
WA
USA
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 Posted - Oct 02 2013 : 2:50:15 PM
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We have some pepper plants that appear to be still going strong and it's getting cold overnight. Can we dig them up, put in pots, and keep in our greenhouse over the winter? There is no heat in the thing, but we do have milk jugs full of water in there as a gardener friend told us it would help keep the place warm in the winter.
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gramadinah
True Blue Farmgirl
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Diana
Orofino
ID
USA
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Posted - Oct 02 2013 : 3:32:50 PM
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Go for it what can happen they grow or the die.
Diana
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krissy
True Blue Farmgirl
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Kristen
Snohomish
WA
USA
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Cindy Lou
True Blue Farmgirl
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Susan
Lonsdale
MN
USA
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Posted - Oct 03 2013 : 11:07:37 AM
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We have potted peppers and brought them in the house by a big south facing window and they continued to produce though the peppers were smaller.
I wonder if the cold in the green house might slow them down a lot. Ours seem to produce best when it is hotter weather.
Susan
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naturemaiden
True Blue Farmgirl
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Connie - Farmgirl #673
Hoosick Falls
NY
USA
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Posted - Oct 26 2013 : 04:13:36 AM
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peppers are a heat loving plant. if you can maintain heat for them you might have a chance. water jugs will not be enough. Since the sun is also lower in the winter and not as strong, you may need to provide supplemental lighting as well. i think cool weather crops in your unheated greenhouse would be a better choice. maybe you can bring your pepper plant in the house with a plant light.
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Annika
True Blue Farmgirl
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Annika
USA
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Posted - Oct 26 2013 : 09:24:42 AM
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Last year I bought some seeds from seed savers called Aurora peppers. We had an awful growing year and nothing before late June survived in the garden. The second wave of plants were cut short of producing by an early stormy autumn but the peppers survived and survied. So when it started to get cool at night I potted up and brought a bunch of the plants in and they continue to grow and produce peppers. lovely little plant with nice peppers and hopefully with heat and light I can keep them growing for a bit =}
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ramonaj
True Blue Farmgirl
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rhonda
gibsons
british columbia
Canada
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Posted - Oct 30 2013 : 8:03:47 PM
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Hi Krissy, our climate is probably close to yours and I bring mine in and give them a sunny windowsill for the winter. I find it's not the cold so much as the wet that gets them, even in a greenhouse. they don't much like it. Good luck
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krissy
True Blue Farmgirl
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Kristen
Snohomish
WA
USA
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Posted - Nov 07 2013 : 7:09:41 PM
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My problem is that we really don't have a sunny window. The area of the yard where the garden is has the most sun, but the rest of the area has plenty of very tall trees that block the sunlight. Next house will have more sunlight, I tell ya!
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