Any Sweet Pepper growing tips?

[glallotments]

Not really advice on growing the seeds for this year but we have found that the pointy (carrot shaped) fruit varieties produce far more fruits - well they do for us. We are growing Jimmy Nardello and Tequila Sunrise as they were so successful last year.

[Gardenboy]

Hello, as promised back in June, a progress report

My better two plants have four each rather small but hopefully usable fruits, the third is stuck on one. I think considering that, acording to my local newspaper, my area has had the coolest Summer months for nearly 20 years this isn't doing to badly.

They flowered well but lots of the flowers dropped without setting fruit although there were lots of flying insects arround them in the greenhouse. Would this be down to cool wheather? The fruits that have grown set during the best of the year, I think.

When are they ready to eat? I had the idea that they are edible while green but should ripen through yellow to red - is that right?

Thanks for all your earlyer encouragement -- I'll probably try again next year and realy try to start earlyer.

Will

[Nature's Babe]

Thank you for the feedback, if you like green peppers try Achocha, they look like little hedgehog fruit but are not prickly, they are very productive and will clamber up a fence or over a shed, producing loads of fruit. The fruit taste like a cross between a cucumber and green pepper, use while small before they change to a paler creamy green, I use them in stir fries, but if you have patience I guess you might stuff them.

[Primrose]

I've just bought my outdoor peppers indoors as the nights are getting colder now and wonder if anybody can share their experience about over-wintering the plants indoors.

I've still got a few small peppers growing on them and wonder whether I can prune them back to some lower stems when they've finished fruiting as I do my chilli plants. Also, does anybody have any suggestions for avoiding whitefly which I always find to be an eventual problem with over-wintered plants?

[ken]

Hi Primrose. Bringing your peppers indoors should prolong the season. However - and I hesitate when I say this because I'm not 100% sure - I think I'm right in saying that sweet peppers are annuals and will die after fruiting, whereas chillies are perennials and will survive the winter...