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Seed Sowing Aubergine & Sweet Peppers
It’s the beginning of March and time to sow Aubergines (eggplants) and Sweet Peppers on a sunny indoor windowsill. You will Need: A Greenhouse in a sunny location to grow these warm loving plants. I shade my greenhouse with netting in the summer as it gets too hot and the sun at its hottest through…
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Vegetable Seeds To Sow in February
A mixture of cold loving vegetables and warm loving vegetables can be sown in February. Here’s my Top 5 Vegetables to Grow in February Indoors. Cold Loving Vegetables Very Early Peas I love Peas but last year the pigeons chewed and spat out my peas which were located in a pot. This year I’m fighting…
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When should you Sow Warm Loving plants?
Tomatoes, Aubergines, Sweet & Chilli Peppers are warm loving plants. They originate in tropical countries: What do you need to Grow Warm Loving Vegetables? Indoors – You will need a light bright windowsill in a warm house for germinating seeds. Indoors – Sowing Early – You will need Grow Lights and a heated propagator to…
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Cooking with Yellow Ball Courgettes – Beef & Rice
I love cooking and I admit I never follow a recipe properly. I always think it needs more of that or less of this. I’ve not always been good at cooking, when I was teenager, I used to burn everything and my mother use to say you’ll have to marry a man that can cook…
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A Colourful Harvest Palette – Tomatoes & Sweet Peppers
‘Tangerine Dream’ Sweet Pepper, you did not let me down! What a stunning bright Orange bitesized sweet pepper. Tangerine Dream Sweet Peppers grow pointing to the sky instead of hang down like long peppers. They remind me of chilli peppers. They turn from green to a light orange and then a bright orange. They are…
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Part 5 – How to Harvest Sweet Peppers (Rams Horn Type)
This year I’ve grown a great Early variety of Sweet Pepper called ‘Napia’ and some of my early potted plants have already turned red. The rest are still green and they are weighing the plants down. I’ve had about 5 of these rams horn type sweet peppers on each plant. How do I know when…
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Keeping the ‘Tangerine Dream’ Alive! – Sweet Peppers are Changing Colour
It’s early July and it’s that time of the year again when the magic happens, THE magical colour changing event 🎉, this is when it’s time for early varieties of Sweet Pepper to change from Green to reddy brown to Red (or from green to any other colour like yellow, orange, purple, black depending on…
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Potting On Sweet Peppers – Napia (early red) with Video
The red Sweet Peppers – ‘Napia’ which are an early variety from Real Seeds, had really put a growth spurt on compared to their sweet pepper neighbours in the cell tray ‘Tangerine Dream’. At 6 leaves, the red sweet peppers were definitely ready for a larger pot and some fresh compost. How to Pot On…
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Sweet Peppers ‘Tangerine Dream’ and ‘Napia’ have Germinated!
I was so happy with my sweet peppers last year that this year I have upgraded my cell trays (as last years sowings were started in a mushroom tray) and I started sowing my Sweet Peppers indoors in these: Windowsill Cell Trays with Lids from Amazon. These cell trays have been ideal and come with…
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Sowing and Growing Sweet Peppers – Part 1 – Origins, Types and Nutrition
What is a Sweet Pepper? A Sweet pepper is a pepper with no heat, that is sweet or fruity in flavour. Sweet Peppers are from the capsicum family of which chilli peppers also belong to. A Bell Pepper is zero on the scoville heat scale and a Sweet Pepper is 1-500 on the scoville heat…
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