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General Items
Crop Rotations
Crop Succession
Vegetable List
Aubergines
Broad Beans
Carrots
Chilli Peppers
Courgettes
Cucmbers
Garlic
Grean Beans
Melons
Onions
Parsnips
Potatoes
Pumpkin
Spinach
Swede
Sweet Peppers
Sweetcorn
Tomatoes
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Peppers at a Glance
Sow
Early spring, under polythene
Depth
1-2 cm
Plant out
May
Distance Apart
75-100cm
Harvest
Early Summer - Christmas
Pepper Recipes
Pepper - Pimiento
An attractive and rewarding vegetable to grow in Spain and one that would be difficult to grow outdoors in the UK. You should be able to produce a steady supply of peppers to use in your cooking from early summer to Christmas.
Young Pepper Plants About to Flower
You can buy plants or grow your own from seed, sown under polythene to establish them earlier.
Plant out when the young pepper plants have 6 good leaves, when the weather is warming up. Each plant can grow into a bush 1m high and produce a large number of peppers.
The peppers can be used green or allowed to ripen to their red colour. Excess crop can be dried in the sun for later use.
Drying should be done in August, when the sun is strong. Harvest the peppers complete with a stalk about 2cm long - a string can then be threaded through the stalk of each, enabling bunches to be hung up for drying (against a sunny wall) and storage.
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