{"id":394,"date":"2023-03-28T19:17:56","date_gmt":"2023-03-28T19:17:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/verosgarden\/?p=394"},"modified":"2023-03-30T12:22:20","modified_gmt":"2023-03-30T12:22:20","slug":"growing-peppers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/verosgarden\/?p=394","title":{"rendered":"GROWING PEPPERS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">Ever wonder why your sweet pepper plants just bloom and bloom and never set any fruit until just about time for the frosts to hit?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">There&#8217;s a good reason!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">Peppers are very sensitive to temperature change, and also to excessive heat or cold. They like their days to be consistent, and of course we all know that doesn&#8217;t happen very often.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">I grow one variety year after year (California Wonder) and never get the exact same results any two years in a row.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"764\" src=\"https:\/\/civatar.com\/verosgarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2023\/03\/IMG_9023-1024x764.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-404\" srcset=\"https:\/\/civatar.com\/verosgarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2023\/03\/IMG_9023-1024x764.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/civatar.com\/verosgarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2023\/03\/IMG_9023-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/civatar.com\/verosgarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2023\/03\/IMG_9023-768x573.jpg 768w, https:\/\/civatar.com\/verosgarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2023\/03\/IMG_9023-1536x1146.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/civatar.com\/verosgarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2023\/03\/IMG_9023-2048x1528.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/civatar.com\/verosgarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2023\/03\/IMG_9023-2000x1492.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/civatar.com\/verosgarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2023\/03\/COLORFUL-PEPPERS.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-396\" width=\"822\" height=\"617\" srcset=\"https:\/\/civatar.com\/verosgarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2023\/03\/COLORFUL-PEPPERS.jpg 577w, https:\/\/civatar.com\/verosgarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2023\/03\/COLORFUL-PEPPERS-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 822px) 100vw, 822px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Mixed sweet bell peppers from Park&#8217;s Seed.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">This year, I&#8217;m experimenting with two plants that have grown at a perfect, steady temperature of 71 degrees, and carefully watching their progress.<br>To be continued\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever wonder why your sweet pepper plants just bloom and bloom and never set any fruit until just about time for the frosts to hit? There&#8217;s a good reason! Peppers are very sensitive to temperature change, and also to excessive heat or cold. They like their days to be consistent, and of course we all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":91,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/verosgarden\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/verosgarden\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/verosgarden\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/verosgarden\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/91"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/verosgarden\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/verosgarden\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/verosgarden\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/verosgarden\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/verosgarden\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}