I Think my Capsicums Are Going Places

Hopefully one of those places will be my dinner table :)
Over the past few months I must have sown over a thousand capsicum seeds. None of the seeds ever seemed to germinate so I'd put in more, wait a bit, nothing would happen, I'd sow some more... you get the idea. Then all of a sudden, they were everywhere! I think there must be at least 100 that have popped up around the garden, under things, over things, in the middle of things, lol, really everywhere. Only a few are flowering so far, and I haven't actually grown any before so I read up on a bit about them and here is what I have learnt.

Capsicums won't germinate in the cold, they like a soil temperature of between 18 - 35 degrees Celsius. Which would explain why the seeds I planted in the middle of winter weren't going anywhere. All of the plants that have popped up in my garden are from seeds I saved from capsicums we ate, big ones, little ones, red ones, blue ones (that's a fib, just checking to see you are still paying attention), and my favourites, little orange and yellow ones. So the seeds are really easy to harvest and keep, I just kind of scrape them out of the fruit and dry them out in a bowl for a couple of weeks.

Capsicums like lots of compost and aged manure, but not too much water, apparently they like to dry out in between waterings.

And the most exciting thing I learnt about capsicums, although I'm not convinced that I believe it yet, is that at first they are green, and then as they mature they go yellow, then red, then orange!

I'm going to have to see that to believe it.