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Growing Bell Peppers in the Pajaro Valley
If you garden in the Pajaro Valley, the warm farm country around Watsonville and the lower Pajaro River flats, bell peppers are one of your easiest wins. This is the county's warmest microclimate, and peppers ripen red here as reliably as anywhere in the region.
Growing Bell Peppers in the Santa Cruz Coastal Fog Belt
If you garden in the immediate fog belt, the cool coastal strip from the west side of Santa Cruz through Live Oak and the beach side of Capitola and Aptos, and you have wondered why your bell peppers stay green and never turn red, this is the honest page. The answer is the fog, a
Growing Bell Peppers in the Santa Cruz Banana Belt
If you garden in the county's warm sunny pocket, the hill belts above the fog around Soquel, Aptos, and the sunnier side of Santa Cruz, bell peppers are a genuinely good crop for you. The Banana Belt has the heat peppers need to color up, not just grow.