Comments on: Vanshing Pepper Plants

By: Kim

Kim — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 19:41:20 +0000

CHIPMUNKS….They started to eat my peppers this year. Stripped
one plant of all it’s leaves in one night. I was stunned at first to find my naked little plant with a single pepper dangling from it because I have my garden surrounded by small gauge chicken wire. What got into my fortress? Well… I figured it out quickly. Chipmunks. They climb can over everything. Plus, They left their tell-tale-turds behind. Aha! So, now I have surrounded each individual pepper plant with the small gauge poultry wire, complete with hinging the wire across the top. I don’t want the chipmunks in with my peppers but I still have to be able to harvest them. Anyway… That did the trick. They cannot get to the peppers.

By: Lisa

Lisa — Mon, 23 May 2011 06:58:34 +0000

Update. It was a squirell. I caught him or her in the act saw it with my own eyes. The peanuts I was feeding the blue jays was attracting him. I cut back on the all the nuts for the birds and picked up the excess seed on the ground and he stopped coming around. It was not the birds.

By: Kenny Point

Kenny Point — Sun, 22 May 2011 14:52:10 +0000

Randy don’t worry, if it was a groundhog he will return for more! Doesn’t really sound like a groundhog to me, they usually have a healthier appetite than that.

By: Randy Lahnum

Randy Lahnum — Fri, 20 May 2011 18:42:59 +0000

I just planted my garden yesterday and this morning when I walked out in my back yard to gaze on my plants I was caught off guard by the fact that (one) out of (four) of my hot pepper plants looked like it was dug up sometime last night. I have had problems with ground hogs for the past three years, but mostly as a Nuisance, any way if a ground hog took my hot pepper plant…why is it that I see no evidence? why did it seem to take the little plastic marker that was in the ground beside it? Why did’nt it take the other three pepper plants?

By: Nathan Bell

Nathan Bell — Fri, 13 May 2011 20:21:47 +0000

I think it’s Birds…. The same thing happens to mine, but there is always a stem nub. I do have chipmonks around also, but birds are heard and seen when the crime takes place. I put chicken wire over them.

By: Lisa

Lisa — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 14:56:24 +0000

Did you ever figure out what the problem was? I live in Orange County and the same exact thing happened to my sweet pepper plants and one strawberry plant. So frustrating. I have not seen any slugs around. I think it is a bird or squirell.

By: Josh in Nashville, TN

Josh in Nashville, TN — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 02:38:01 +0000

This Past year we grew an assortment of different peppers in flower pots on the patio. I observed that if you want peppers that resemble the ones that you would buy, you want to keep the leaves healthy so they cover the peppers because the ones that get too much sun turn a different color. I thought they looked festive and they had no difference in taste.

By: ryan

ryan — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 05:45:20 +0000

slugs and snails probably or other insect pests