{"id":1893,"date":"2011-09-19T12:34:02","date_gmt":"2011-09-19T16:34:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/?p=1893"},"modified":"2011-09-24T18:07:29","modified_gmt":"2011-09-24T22:07:29","slug":"ornamental-peppers-sizzle-in-autumn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/2011\/09\/19\/ornamental-peppers-sizzle-in-autumn\/","title":{"rendered":"Ornamental Peppers Sizzle In Autumn"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mceTemp mceIEcenter\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1898\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/IMG_34281.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1898\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1898\" title=\"IMG_3428\" src=\"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/IMG_34281-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/IMG_34281-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/IMG_34281-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1898\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ornamental Peppers in mid-September Garden<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Some gardeners call them \u201cChristmas peppers\u201d. In the late summer garden all eyes turn away from most flowering annuals and to the colorful fruits of ornamental peppers (<em>Capsicum annuum<\/em>). Many are dwarf red hot chili peppers. (No!\u2026not the rock band).<\/p>\n<p>Fruits are cylindrical or ball shaped and the brilliant colors range from white, yellow, orange, red and purple (some almost black). Plant foliage may be green, purple, or variegated. Over the years many varieties have been introduced. A popular favorite here in Tennessee, Virginia, and North Carolina is \u2018Black Pearl\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Ornamental peppers are compact growers, 12 -15 inches in height and width. They are planted either in the front of\u00a0a garden bed or in containers mixed-in\u00a0among other flowering annuals. \u00a0Plants display fruits at their spectacular best from late August and thru frost.<\/p>\n<p>Grow ornamental peppers in a sunny garden spot in fertile soils and irrigate plants\u00a0during long dry spells. Do not over-fertilize (particularly nitrogen) as peppers will produce lots of leaves and few peppers. Disease and insect pests are rarely seen.<\/p>\n<p>Their colorful fruits and foliage\u00a0make great additions to\u00a0indoor floral arrangements. Potted plants loaded with showy fruits may also be purchased from Halloween through the winter holiday season. Fruits exhibit a long display life lasting 6-8 weeks.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Caution:<\/strong> keep away from children or pets as the fruit are extremely hot for eating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0\u00a0 Some gardeners call them \u201cChristmas peppers\u201d. In the late summer garden all eyes turn away from most flowering annuals and to the colorful fruits of ornamental peppers (Capsicum annuum). Many are dwarf red hot chili peppers. (No!\u2026not the rock band). Fruits are cylindrical or ball shaped and the brilliant colors range from white, yellow, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[674,665,602,791,799,630,646,283],"tags":[789],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1893"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1893"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1989,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1893\/revisions\/1989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}