
When to Grow
Next time you buy peppers, don’t throw away the seeds, but plant them instead. Choose fresh orange or red peppers
for your seeds, as these are most likely to grow. Sow seeds in spring. Peppers are easy to grow in pots and containers
and liven up the look of your windowsill. Like tomatoes, peppers are actually ‘fruits’, the fleshy berries of the plant.
Add them to salads or use them to top your pizza!
What you need

A Ripe Pepper

Gloves

Knife

Peat-free Seed Compost

Spoon

Tomato Fertiliser

Pots

Peat-free Grow-bag Compost
How to Grow
- Cut open your pepper, and use the handle of a spoon to gently push out the seeds.
- Wash the seeds in water to get rid of a natural anti-germinating substance that stops the seeds growing inside the fruit.
- Fill the 10-13cm wide pot almost to the top with seed compost and firm the surface of the compost lightly so it is level.
- Place two or three seeds on the surface and then add a light covering of compost over the seeds. Place on a warm, sunny windowsill and keep moist.
- When the roots fill the pots, you can move them outside. Make sure the risk of frost has passed in your area (late May–mid June). Plant them in large containers filled with grow-bag compost.
- Water regularly and feed with tomato fertiliser according to the instructions on the pack.
Did you know?
The peppers you grow may not look the same as your original pepper! Many supermarket peppers are hybrids (plants whose parents were different), so their offspring may take after one of the parents.