green peppers

What kind of fertilizer should be used on green peppers? They are nice and green but don't seem to grow much.

Thanks...Peg

Peppers are waiting for the soil to get warmer- Mine are just sitting there, too.

Agree, as soon as the weather will really get hot peppers will start to grow really fast.
But it really takes a lot of time for a pepper to turn color, especially red.
This was my last pepper harvest.

I've read that peppers don't like alot of fertilizer. You just get nice green plants and not many peppers. Let me know if I'm mistaken. I know they didn't like the iron/acid fert. I just put on them 2 weekends ago :( :)

humm ... I dunno
This is my third year of vegetable gardening.
Here what I do (if I remember to do it and if I am home)
Once every other week I apply a tbsp of Epson Salt and water the peppers, and the next time I am using the Roots Organic products (0.5-2-1.5)
So far so good.
Last year I had many harvests like this below (I must doing something right ... or maybe it is just luck)

Whowzer! I'm going to do what you do... :)

I can only drool from afar...I'd never have to buy another bell pepper from a store...

Drthor,
According to the planting schedule for DFW, we can set out a new wave of bell pepper transplants in a couple weeks. Great news, seeing as I still have about 10 BP seedlings that I never planted out yet. They should be raring to go by then!

Maybe I'll get better production from these, 'cause the ones that have been out since forever have yet to produce anything appealing....

Linda

P.S. I know the EP trick, mostly to green up the BPs. That's a mighty weak solution of fert you're adding, too...

I don't have great luck with peppers either.

I am hearing the epsom salt thing here and there but I caution- Calcium and magnesium need to be balanced--last year when I treated my yard and garden to calcium supplement it seemed things grew very well. Magnesium, too much, which is what epsom salts gives, can bind up the calcium that the plants need. NOTE I am in MD and likely have more similar soil to 'Chesapeake' than does Texas. Mag could be very well needed in TX.