200 Keystone Giant Pepper Heirloom Seeds

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Keystone Giant Pepper Heirloom Seeds. 70 days. Very thick-walled, 4 to 4 ½ inch, four-lobed fruit are produced over an extended harvest period. Fruits turn from green to red as they mature. Resistant to Tobacco Mosaic Virus.

***BELL PEPPER GROWING GUIDE BELOW***

Peppers are a tender, warm-season crop. They resist most pests and offer something for everyone: spicy, sweet or hot, and a variety of colors, shapes and sizes. For this page, we will focus on sweet bell peppers.

PLANTING

Start seeds indoors 8-10 weeks before last spring frost date.

The temperature must be at least 70 degrees F for seed germination, so keep them in a warm area for the best and fastest results.

Start pepper seeds three to a pot, and thin out the weakest seedling. Let the remaining two pepper plants spend their entire lives together as one plant. The leaves of two plants help protect peppers against sunscald, and the yield is often twice as good as two segregated plants.

Begin to harden off plants about 10 days before transplanting.

A week before transplanting, introduce fertilizer or aged compost in your garden soil.

After the danger of frost has passed, transplant seedlings outdoors, 18 to 24 inches apart (but keep paired plants close to touching.)

Soil should be at least 65 degrees F, peppers will not survive transplanting at temps any colder. Northern gardeners can warm up the soil by covering it with black plastic..

PLANT CARE


Soil should be well-drained, but maintain adequate moisture either with mulch or plastic covering.

Water one to two inches per week, but remember peppers are extremely heat sensitive. If you live in a warm or desert climate, watering everyday may be necessary.

Fertilize after the first fruit set.

Weed carefully around plants.

If necessary, support plants with cages or stakes to prevent bending. Try commercially available cone-shaped wire tomato cages. *They may not be ideal for tomatoes, but they are just the thing for peppers.

For larger fruit, spray the plants with a solution of one tablespoon of Epsom salts in a gallon of water, once when it begins to bloom, and once ten days later.



All multiple orders of the same seed are put in the same bag. For example if you order 500 beefsteak tomato seeds x 3 then 1500 seeds will be put in the same bag. We do not send out 3 individual bags with 500 in each. This goes for all seeds unless they are listings of different seeds.

NOTE: ALL GROWING INFO AND INSTRUCTIONS ARE ON ITEM PAGE.

If you can’t find germinating and instructions online you can find them on the item page. Our goal is to save money everywhere we can so we can pass those savings on to you.


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