Post #559273
2026-03-06 20:56 UTC
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@perkinsy@aus.social 2026-03-07 10:46
Thank you everyone for your responses about my question about when to pick a capsicum (see above). We had the big moment tonight. Our six year old grandson is here for a sleepover and loves picking fruit. He picked the small, green capsicum, we divided it into quarters and each of us ate a piece. The skin was quite thin and it definitely could have lasted longer on the bush (yes, they do go red after a while) but there is nothing like sharing a piece of home grown produce with a child. Thank you @LifeTimeCooking for your responses. We don't get frosts here - inner Melbourne no longer seems to get them, so would the plant be OK to sit outside during winter? Our biggest problem is that during winter our tiny backyard only gets about an hour of sunlight. @aeduna - you left a capsicum on a bush for 8 months here in Melbourne! Interesting to know for the future. There are a couple of flowers on the plant currently so maybe I will have the opportunity to let the fruit ripen slowly for that long. @weezmgk Stuffed capsicums - yum! I live in Melbourne, Australia so we are entering autumn and despite warm and hot days next week, temperatures are on the way down. I am not sure what words Europeans use for capsicum, including the English. To Australians the word is used for sweet capsicums which are never spicy like chillies. That, and the confusion over season shows why country-based gardening hashtags can be useful. I also add the hashtag for our city as our country has hot, dry deserts, tropics, sub-tropics, temperate and in a few places, alpine climates. Gardening is very different around the country. I like the way the US has very clear climate zones that people use. I know that kind of thing exists here but not so widely used. I should look up my Australian climate zone and use it in posts. #GardeningAU #gardening #Melbourne
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@LifeTimeCooking@mastodon.au 2026-03-06 21:10
@perkinsy Capsicums are pretty much like eggplants in that you can pick them at any size. Or in the capsicum's case, you can wait until it turns red.
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@aeduna@aus.social 2026-03-06 21:55
@perkinsy we left one on the bush for 8 months as it slowly slowly ripened and it was not woody or anything at the end of it, so i'd advise patience? :) (most of mine get bugs boring into them, annoyingly, which is a danger if you leave it)
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@neohysteria@blorbo.social 2026-03-07 00:08
@perkinsy You can wait until it changes colour just to see what it looks like, but it's fine to pick and eat them green!
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@weezmgk@mastodon.social 2026-03-07 01:53
@perkinsy you could definitely eat the one on your plant as is or you could let it put on more size. As Ganga says, pick whenever you like. When I got a glut of capsicums, I loved to stuff them with a rice, browned beef mince and passata mixture seasoned with paprika, and bake them at 180C until the capsium softens. A motz cheese cap is tasty.
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@saarmuller@mastodon.social 2026-03-07 09:27
@perkinsy Yes, you can just leave them on. But depending on the species taste may change tast when they turn color. And more important (to me I do not like that), they may become hot .