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Dark n Stormy Knight

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7. Nice shots! Makes me sorry this year's peppers never produced more than the two that were already

Reply to CaliforniaPeggy (Reply #2)

Sun Aug 16, 2020, 04:32 PM

Aug 2020

on the plants when I bought them, only one of which ended up being edible!

You're lucky if you can assume anything sold at a farmer's market is grown without pesticides. Around here, SE PA, a lot of the farmer's market produce is grown by the Amish and they use as much poison as anyone, if not more. At one time I naively supposed that they were all natural. Boy was I wrong.

Ans they use MiracleGro type fertilizers, also problematic, imo.

My friend grows peppers with not a single bug problem, and he tries to grow organically. But he lives between Amish farms and says their pesticide wafts over onto his property.

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Mmmm...they look home grown! Karadeniz Aug 2020 #1

Well, I did buy them, at a Farmer's Market. CaliforniaPeggy Aug 2020 #2

Nice shots! Makes me sorry this year's peppers never produced more than the two that were already Dark n Stormy Knight Aug 2020 #7

There are images all around us. flamin lib Aug 2020 #3

Indeed, this is true, my dear flamin lib... CaliforniaPeggy Aug 2020 #4

Always such Ohiogal Aug 2020 #5

Thank you so much, my dear Ohiogal! CaliforniaPeggy Aug 2020 #6