Re: [CH] What Size Pots?

• Messages sorted by: [ date ][ thread ][ subject ][ author ]
• Next message: Doug Irvine: "[CH] Fish Veracruz"
• Previous message: RST G: "[CH] Recipes From This Week (I made them!!!)"
• Maybe in reply to: RST G: "[CH] What Size Pots?"
• Next in thread: Jim Campbell: "Re: [CH] What Size Pots?"

>I noticed that most of the larger pots I have outside already are
>betweeb 10 and 18". Are these large enough to hold my pepper plants or
>should I get larger. 

I would be more concerned with the depth of the pots than the diameter; it
seems to me that you would be better off putting the peppers in five-gallon
pails (punched with drainage holes, of course) than traditional pots.

My reason for this is because of the root systems I have encountered on
pepper plants I've grown.  My red savinas last year, for example, were
anchored by long, thick taproots that went much, much deeper into the soil
than my tomatoes.

I would be interested in whatever anyone has to say about this, too.  

===
Dave Sacerdote
davesas@ntplx.net
Resist or Serve.
"I am so mighty, I do not have to kill you all."  -- Flaming Carrot
Visit Dave's New England Almanac at http://www.ntplx.net/~davesas/

• Next message: Doug Irvine: "[CH] Fish Veracruz"
• Previous message: RST G: "[CH] Recipes From This Week (I made them!!!)"
• Maybe in reply to: RST G: "[CH] What Size Pots?"
• Next in thread: Jim Campbell: "Re: [CH] What Size Pots?"