Those weeds there I think they are edible. I usually remove them under the pepers but leave them on the paths.
I left it as a ground cover as an experiment. It seemed to me that removing it helped pepper production.
Yes, looks like Portulaca oleracea. Mine dried up in late summer. Usually we give it to the chickens or make salad with it.
If you got to much moister on the ground probably it can help with it.
I put dried plants stock under my pepers, and puslane was one of them.
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Last year I planted about 20 sweet pepper varieties, I had about 300 transplants. I got about 20 peppers total, saved all of those seeds and replanted half of them. This year I planted about a hundred plants from those seeds, but the summer was colder than last year. About a month ago I pretty much gave up on getting any peppers. But here are a few peppers! I pulled the plants to hang inside to give the seeds a bit more time to mature. Unfortunately I still won’t have enough seeds to share, but at least I have enough seeds to continue the foggy pepper landrace project again next year.
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Similar experience here. Last year was warmer than usual, and peppers flourished. I re-planted the seeds from last years crop, along with some of the GTS mix. This year has been cold, with warm weather not arriving until September/October. But I’m getting a few ripe peppers! The yellow / banana peppers from the GTS mix are also just beginning to turn.
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I’m finally finished procrastinating and I’m posting my harvest. This is everything I harvested that had any colour showing from the 72 I planted. The smaller group was from in an unheated greenhouse, the bigger group was grown outdoors. Roughly 50 plants outdoors and 20 in the greenhouse.
I let them ripen in my basement and harvested the seeds from all except the tiny peppers, they were a pain to deal with and I want to grow bigger peppers that are easier to process. I was partly done harvesting seeds before I decided to taste some, I should’ve done that from the start as some of the small red banana shaped peppers were a bit spicy. I decided not to share any seeds for that reason, and I didn’t harvest a large quantity of seeds anyway.
I purchased some new varieties to add to the mix for next season, hopefully I can get a larger harvest of ripe peppers.
This season was longer than ususal and these pictures were taken on October 4. I had to cover the plants due to frost once on August 20 (there was no frost in my yard, but my garden outside of town had some damage that night), and multiple times in September.
If I would’ve had my normal short season I think I would have had around 1/4 of this harvest. I think this is the first time I’ve managed ripe peppers from transplants I grew myself, so I’m quite happy and looking forward to next season.
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I see you had some of the tiny oranges ones that grew well for me, too. I was frustrated by them and about to toss the seeds, when I realized they were perfect for the kids at the educational farm where I volunteer. So instead they got saved separately and we will develop a patch of mini-bells for the kiddos!