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Jimmy Nardello's Sweet Pepper
A variety of capsicum
How to sow Jimmy Nardello's sweet pepper: Direct seed indoors, transplant seedlings outside after hardening off
Sun requirement for Jimmy Nardello's sweet pepper: Plant in Full Sun
A sweet frying pepper with long, thin, tapered red fruit and thin walls, not hot. One of the hardiest, easiest and most prolific sweet peppers, with up to 50 fruit per bush, starting earlier and finishing later than most. Start in trays in early spring at 18 °C and plant out after frost 30 cm apart.
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What are growing degree days?
A plant grows with warmth, not with days. A growing degree day is one day's worth of useful warmth: how many degrees the day's average temperature is above the lowest temperature the crop grows at. Add them up from planting and you know how far along the crop is, whatever the calendar says.
Say that lowest temperature is 10°C. A day averaging 17°C gives 7 growing degree days. A day averaging 8°C gives none, as it is too cold for the crop to grow. That is why the same lettuce takes about 50 days in a summer and 90 in an autumn: it needs the same total warmth either way.
For Jimmy Nardello's sweet pepper, the FAO EcoCrop database gives a lowest growing temperature of 8°C and a shortest growing cycle of 60 days at its best temperature, about 930 growing degree days to a first harvest.
Where you've told us where your garden is, we use this and the weather there to predict when your Jimmy Nardello's sweet pepper will be ready to harvest. We don't use it for how long a plant lives or when it finishes: we go by what members have logged for that.
Growing Jimmy Nardello's sweet peppers
- Sow seeds indoors 8 weeks before planting out
- Harden off the seedlings 1 week before planting out
- Stake the plants 3 weeks after planting out
- Water regularly at planting out every week
- Feed with liquid fertiliser 6 weeks after planting out every 2 weeks
- Pick fruit regularly at first harvest every week
- Pull out finished plants 6 weeks after first harvest
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Ecological requirements
Data from the FAO EcoCrop database for Capsicum annuum L.
| Family / Taxonomy | Magnoliopsida Asteridae Solanales Solanaceae |
|---|---|
| Life form | herb |
| Life span | annual |
| Habit | erect |
| Optimal soil depth | medium (50-150 cm) |
| Optimal soil texture | medium, organic |
| Optimal soil fertility | moderate |
| Optimal soil drainage | well (dry spells) |
| Optimal soil salinity | low (<4 dS/m) |
| Photoperiod | short day (<12 hours), neutral day (12-14 hours) |
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