Growing Bell Peppers

Seed
Planting time:	SU
Seeds per ounce:	4500
Ounces per square foot:	0.006
Minimum legal germination rate:	55%
Germination type:	Extra-long Germinating seeds

Notes Growing Bell Peppers is best in hot wether, full sun, and moist well drained soil. Bell Peppers are native to semi-tropical regions and and in frost free and low frost areas it can be grown as a small perennial shrub. Bell Peppers are a fantastic source of vitamin C. Green Bell Peppers has two times the vitamin C by weight than citrus (oranges, lemons etc.) and Red Bell Peppers have three times that of Bell Peppers.

Planting
In garden spacing (inches):	12
In flat spacing (inches):	1
Planting depth (inches):	cover seeds with soil.
Maxiumum number of plants per square foot:	1.5
Nutrient relationship::	Heavy Feeder

Harvest
Days to maturity:	63-77
Harvesting period (days):	119
Minimum yields in pounds /square foot:	.7

Cultural
Diseases:	Anthracnose, Bacterial Spot, Bacterial Wilt, Blossom End Rot, Elephant's Foot, Fusarium Stem Rot, Leaf Spot, Pepper Stem Scald, Phytophthora Blight, Southern Blight, Tobacco Mosaic Virus, Tomato Spotted Wilt Virus, Wet Rot.
Insect pests:(Insect Pest Finder)	Army Cutworm, Beet Armyworm, Cabbage Looper, Cutworm, Eastern Field Wireworm, Fall Armyworm, Northern Mole Cricket, Pepper Maggot, Tomato Hornworm

Varieties
Ancho, Banana, Buran, Chocolate Beauty, King of the North, Miniature Yellow Bell, Napolean Sweet, Nepalese Bell, Orange Bell, Poblano, Purple Beauty, Quadrato Asti Giallo, Red Cap Mushroom, Wisconsin Lakes

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