Can you believe I can't find any good plants for this? Swedish Ivy and Wandering Jew are nowhere to be found. Remember when they were in EVERYONE'S house? (I might be revealing my age). I am not familiar with any of the plants you mention, Purp, except coleus, which is an excellent suggestion - FAST grower. I prefer to use plants I know, so maybe I can find it. Will it grow this time of year, in western Oregon gloom? I know it's often treated as an annual, but I don't think it actually is. I don't suppose any of you have a Swedish Ivy / Charlie or a wandering Jew you're willing to pinch for the cause? I'll pay shipping, of course. I'll have to lookup coleus, and see if anyone has any around here and if it'll grow okay. I will start a thread and post updates once I get this little experiment off the ground.

Plastic for weed control if you need it. My plots are small enough to manage. You can get a little extra time into starting your peppers under plastic, but it's usually not a big advantage. It's main advantage is weed control...it's main disadvantage is running irrigation under it.

Using the search feature for cages will get you lots of discussions and photos of how, why and instead of. Have fun!

Here is a picture of it spontaneously sending out cuttings: This picture should have been rotated 90 degrees to the right by me. Anyhoo, you can see... it throws little bits of itself onto the ground. So hopeful? Btw this is also called turtle vine and chain plant. I imagine it would do okay wrapped in a wet paper towel and sent through the mail? If anyone wants some, message me and I guess, send postage? Actually I could just divide it too... come to think of it, in all this time I have never looked at its roots.