Good Organic Gardening

THE UNPEPPERY PEPPER

Capsicums can be expensive so having access to inexpensive homegrown peppers is a very good reason to grow your own. Capsicum is eaten fresh or cooked. For a sweet yet savoury treat, char capsicum over a flame or roast it in the oven or under the griller until the skin is blackened and easy to remove.

Like its fellow Solanaceae family member the tomato, capsicum is a fruit but broadly classified as a vegetable. In Australia we call this popular salad vegetable capsicum but in other countries it is known as bell or

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