Description
1 packet contains 30 seeds of capsicum orange imported.
Bell peppers are one of the most popular vegetables grown in home gardens. The bell pepper is native to Central and North America and is easy to grow. There is now a much wider variety of peppers to choose from with different colours and even different shapes.
Peppers are a tender, warm-season crop. They resist most pests and offer something for everyone: spicy, sweet or hot, and a variety of colors, shapes and sizes. For this page, we will focus on sweet bell peppe
Planting And Care
- Soil should be well-drained, but maintain adequate moisture either with mulch or plastic covering
- Water one to two inches per week, but remember peppers are extremely heat sensitive
- If you live in a warm or desert climate, watering everyday may be necessary
- Fertilize after the first fruit set
- Weed carefully around plants
- If necessary, support plants with cages or stakes to prevent bending
- Try commercially available cone-shaped wire tomato cages
- They may not be ideal for tomatoes, but they are just the thing for peppers
- For larger fruit, spray the plants with a solution of one tablespoon of Epsom salts in a gallon of water, once when it begins to bloom, and once ten days later
Capsicum Orange Imported Care
- Start seeds indoors 8-10 weeks before last spring frost date
- The temperature must be at least 70 degrees F for seed germination, so keep them in a warm area for the best and fastest results
- Start pepper seeds three to a pot, and thin out the weakest seedling
- Let the remaining two pepper plants spend their entire lives together as one plant
- The leaves of two plants help protect peppers against sunscald, and the yield is often twice as good as two segregated plants
- Begin to harden off plants about 10 days before transplanting
- A week before transplanting, introduce fertilizer or aged compost in your garden soil
- After the danger of frost has passed, transplant seedlings outdoors, 18 to 24 inches apart (but keep paired plants close to touching
- )Soil should be at least 65 degrees F, peppers will not survive transplanting at temps any colder
- Northern gardeners can warm up the soil by covering it with black plastic
- Put two or three match sticks in the hole with each plant, along with about a teaspoon of fertilizer
- They give the plants a bit of sulfur, which they like
| Sunlight | partial sun/shade, around 3-4 hours of morning/evening sunlight with some afternoon shade. |
| Watering | When watering your plants, you want to keep a consistent moistness to the soil, but do not allow it to get soggy during the growing season. If the plants do not get enough water, the bell peppers will have a bitter taste. If you use a black plastic mulch, you will need to water the plants more frequently. |
| Soil | Loamy with neutral pH |
| Temperature | 18C and 35C. |
| Fertilizer | To improve the quality of your peppers, place a small amount of fertilizer around each plant early in the growing season. Place the fertilizer about 4 inches from the stem and add water to work it into the soil. |
| Harvest Season | Capsicum will be ready for harvest about 2 months from planting. Capsicum of hybrid varieties start green and then mature to the their original color. Unlike the Hybrid varieties, the colour of the heirloom Capsicums results from their genetics, and not just the stage of ripeness. |
Capsicum Orange Imported Special Feature
For maximum flavour, eat peppers on the same day they are picked. You can also leave them on a kitchen counter for a day or two to ripen further.
Do not place peppers in the crisper drawer or in plastic wrap or bags in the refrigerator. Peppers are warm-weather fruits and do not store well in cold temperatures. If you have too many peppers, consider the following storage options.
Capsicum Orange Imported Uses
Medicinal Use:
- The fruit of the capsicum plant is used to make medicine
- Capsicum is used for various problems with digestion including upset stomach, intestinal gas, stomach pain, diarrhea, and cramps
Culinary Use:
- Can be sliced and seeded and used raw in salads
- Will freeze successfully without blanching if seeded and sliced
- Or brush with olive oil, roast at a high temperature until the skin changes colour then put in a covered dish until cool and rub off the skin and remove seeds
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