PICK A PECK OF PEPPERS
One of the joys of summer into autumn is to see a burgeoning crop of fulsome sweet peppers in the polytunnel or greenhouse. If you have grown different varieties, you will feast your eyes on a spangled array of greens, yellows, oranges and reds (even purple perhaps?) of different shapes and sizes. These might be smaller snack peppers or larger, even cuboid ones. But even if you have only grown one plant, you won’t be disappointed.
With their origins in South America, the sweet pepper (or bell pepper) Capsicum annuum likes it warm, so tends to be grown under cover. You can grow them outside too, of course, if you have a warm, sheltered spot in the garden which gets plenty of sun, but success will be somewhat dependent on the weather which, as we know in the UK, can vary greatly.
For this reason, I grow mine in a
