Peppers

[Nicos]

Does the word 'perennual' indicate that it's sometimes a perennial but could be an annual???
Actually it's a great way of describing some of my perennials!!
Good one!!!

[jools]

I think I started too late with my peppers. I'll be up and running next year.

I'm without a greenhouse at the moment (waiting for new one to be delivered - not very patiently!) but having read what you have said about chilli pepper being perennial, I put a couple of them in the house. All the leaves fell off and they look worse than the ones I left outside.

But I'm going to have another go next year and I'm going to have a go at making sweet chilli sauce - yum yum!
Jools

[SueA]

They're lovely Alice, makes a very pretty houseplant apart from being edible. I tried to grow chillies this year but fought a losing battle with greenfly & only ended up with a few tiny chillies on each plant (they were the 'Twilight' ones that Gardeners' World grew), might try slightly bigger peppers next year.

[Earthbabe]

My chillis are now inside but three are infested with aphids of various colours. Have tried the usual standby of soapy water. I'll now have to graduate to something stronger I think.

[Marge]

Now this is silly, I planted chilli and pepper seeds early on in the year and put them in my mini-greenhouse. Lovely plants were produced and I planted out a couple of them in a south-facing position against a wall in my garden.

- the chillis did quite well (though never went red), but the peppers were pathetic. They just looked like little green bud things and never progressed.

I know I should have kept them in the greenhouse, but why did the chillis do OK even though they were in the same conditions as the peppers?

[Alison]

Just different varieties I should think, some chilli plants don't do very well outdoors either. Having said that, never had much luck with outdoor peppers so if anybody has then perhaps they could advise us all...