Planting Pepers

It’s planting season, and I am very busy with 6 big gardens that need to be planted. Right now I am planting my starter plants. These plants I have been growing inside my house for the last 6 to 8 weeks. I have peppers, tomatoes, herbs and spices and my watermelon and cantaloupe to plant outside.

Today, I want to show you how I planted my peppers this year. Since this is one of my plants I started early inside they are about 3 to 4 inches tall already.

First, I took some old cottage cheese containers and cut out the bottoms.

Second, I planted my plants in the ground and put the cottage cheese container with the cut outside toward the top over my planted peppers. This acts like a little greenhouse to keep the peppers warm.

Third, press the container into the ground a little bit, now put dirt around the container to hold it in place. This will help keep down the weeds.

As the peppers grow they will come through the whole and branch out. These containers make a nice base for your peppers. I spaced my peppers about 2 feet apart so I can walk in between them with ease when I want to pick them.

These containers are a cheap way to protect your peppers and to help you have fewer weeds. I save my containers each year and reuse them.

You don’t have to go out and buy all these expensive covers and containers when you probably have them in your cupboards already. I planted 20 pepper plants, now will we see how well they produce this year.

I try to find cheap and easy ways to garden since I plant 6 very big gardens each year. I like knowing that I did it myself without breaking the bank. Gardening is fun to do and gives me a great workout, but mostly I like to eat and process what I grow for my family.

I hope everyone had a nice Memorial Day. As you can see I was busy this weekend.

I hope you try my cottage cheese container idea and see how well it works for you. Happy gardening from Suzie Homemaker.