A small, bushy annual growing to 60cm tall with glossy, dark green leaves and fruit which starts green and ripens to "lunch-box" size orange bell peppers
0.5-1 metres
0.1-0.5 metres
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Grow indoors on a windowsill or glasshouse, or outdoors once all risk of frost has passed. Choose a sunny, sheltered position and grow in containers or peat-free growing bags. Water regularly and feed with a high potassium liquid fertiliser once the first fruit has set
Propagate by seed. See sowing vegetable seeds or sowing seeds indoors for further advice
Pinch out growing tips when they are about 20cm tall to encourage bushiness
May be susceptible to glasshouse red spider mite and aphids
May be susceptible to blossom end rot