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- From: fred@mks.com (Fred Kratky)
- Subject: Re: Pepper Plants
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.163647.7431@mks.com>
- Organization: Mortice Kern Systems Inc., Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA
- References: <1992Nov5.150324.1@vax.sonoma.edu> <25804@sybase.sybase.com>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 16:36:47 GMT
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- In article <25804@sybase.sybase.com> karenp@sybase.com (Karen Paulsell) writes:
- >I've seen green bell pepper plants last pretty late in the year,
- >but not through the winter.
- >
- >My neighbor's hot pepper plants are from last year, made it through
- >last winter, they are really big and bushy and loaded with peppers now.
- >If I recall correctly, though, their pepper plants did die in the big
- >freeze of '90.
- >
- >So, yes, some pepper plants will make it through "normal" Bay Area
-
- Peppers are indeed a perenial and will last forever in a frost free
- environment. I have no idea what happens to yields after the first year
- as we tend to get a little frost up here in Canada :-))
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