{"id":2332,"date":"2014-08-13T19:37:58","date_gmt":"2014-08-13T19:37:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/homegardenjoy.com\/site\/?p=2332"},"modified":"2015-08-31T20:22:25","modified_gmt":"2015-08-31T20:22:25","slug":"when-peppers-go-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/homegardenjoy.com\/site\/2014\/08\/when-peppers-go-wrong.html","title":{"rendered":"Pepper Problems: When Peppers Go Wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"

When peppers go wrong…pepper problems? My peppers<\/a> grew into weirdly shaped vegetables this year.<\/p>\n

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My peppers this year are sorry excuses for what might have been, what could have been, what I wished for and hoped for. Was it something I said? Something I did? Something I didn’t do? The fact remains that I have a bed full of plants that look like little topiary pepper trees, and three – count ’em, three – peppers from 14 plants. Fourteen plants!<\/p>\n

In other years, the harvest looked like this:<\/p>\n

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This year I won’t even share a picture of them.<\/p>\n

It’s sad, really.<\/p>\n

Pepper Problems<\/h1>\n

When Peppers Go Wrong<\/h2>\n

So what gives? Why are my peppers sulking? Why are they dropping their lower leaves so that they resemble little pompom topiary bushes? Why aren’t they producing flowers and the subsequent peppers we’ve grown to expect from our Virginia garden each year?<\/p>\n

Here are a few possible reasons…<\/p>\n