Giant Marconi Hybrid Sweet Pepper - July 2024
I brought home a Giant Marconi Hybrid Sweet Pepper plant from the Morton Arboretum Plant Sale this Spring and - along with some other things - I stuck it into our Greenstalk tower. It went into the bottom row in a deep pocket - and then I used the on-board tomato cage to sort-of train it up and give it some support. The plant has thrown off one big pepper so far. You can see it below. Long, thin and (for now) green. I'm going to see if it will redden-up on the plant. #19 on my 2024 to-do list is to keep going on vegetables . I feel good about tomatoes in the raised bed and now add to things a nice-looking pepper and I feel like I've gotten back into the veggie game a little bit more this year. The other thing that I'm remembering is that pepper plants don't produce A TON of fruit. They take up space, but aren't productive. That's ok, just something to remember.