WHEN you look in the seed catalogues to choose a sweet pepper variety, it is like being the proverbial kid in the sweet shop – the colours are amazing. Green, red and yellow are the conventional tones, but you can now add to that spectrum purple, cream, brown and black – it’s pretty impressive! Size and shape, too, are all for the taking.
Bullet-like ‘Lunchbox Mix’, horn-shaped ‘Thor’, squat little ‘Topepo Rosso’ and even chilli-like ‘Sweet Sunshine’ (below) are just some of the amazing sweet peppers available as seed. And, of course, there’s always the conventional bell-shaped varieties such as ‘California Wonder’, which are excellent stuffed with savoury fillings.
Sweet peppers, like their chilli cousins, need a long growing season in order to fruit well in our climate. They’re best…