My capsicum plants are easily the rag taggiest pack of vegetable plants you are ever likely to see. Holes everywhere, twisty leaves, big gangly limbs, and the least likely looking plant you'd ever pick to be fruiting.
But they are.
I literally threw these seeds at the ground in July of last year, along with some of that pink radioactive corn and pumpkin seeds. The corn and pumpkin soon took over, while the capsicum grew slowly in their shadow.
Well the corn was pulled out months ago, and the pumpkins didn't survive the rain. Which left the capsicum plants... For 204 days now they've been striving towards their ultimate goal.
One wee little capsicum.
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Hi Ali, I found that capsicum will be healthy if it is placed side by side with basil. Maybe basil scent does actually repel the capsicum pest. I got my capsicum growing now but not really sure how big it is going to grow.
wow! The way you have photographed them, they look like a rain-forest trees! If that is true, that capsicum must be as big as a basketball! Don't eat it all at once!
They do look very tall in that second picture. i am not sure if it is because of the picture or they are that tall!
When is usually time for you to have ripen peppers? Is this too late in season?
Good things come to those who wait!
And what a perfect wee capsicum it is!
Hehe, it looks like one of my mini mamma caps, they're cherry tomato size. :p
Oh thanks for that tip Hafiz, I've got some basil seeds and will give it a go.
Hazel and Vrtlarica, they aren't that big, no! The tallest would be about hip high, but that's my hip so it's not that impressively tall :)
Mark I have waited, and yes, you are right, they are coming!
Mrs Lottie, it had better stay perfect, woe betide the bug who dares venture upon my capsicum and Kat, I have some of those mini caps growing, I don't really understand how to use them though... it's very hard to get the seeds out of them!
I know! I think they're just teeny tiny novelty capsicums, I was won over by the marketing and didn't think of the practicalities. :(
Ah yes, that would be the story for the majority of my fruit trees here Kat. I've never even tasted pomegranate, that didn't stop me from buying a whole tree of the stuff though!
Such a cutie!
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