Tesco finest sweet pointy peppers

[Pigletwillie]

Last year, before my peppers were ready I purchased a bag of Tesco finest range sweet pointy peppers.

As I always try to source seeds where I can so as not to be reliant on seed companies too much, I saved the seed.

This year I planted 25 seed and eventually planted 15 plants into my polytunnel in April. If you go via the link to my homepage you will see what we are now harvesting.

They have performed brilliantly, red ones have been picked for a few weeks and great long greeen ones for a couple of months or so.

Give them a try.

http://pigletsplots.blogspot.com/2007/10/better-than-tesco-or-what.html

[Pigletwillie]

[Lauren S]

Piglet, were they from the organic section in Tesco?

They look fabulous by the way. Well done  :o

Lauren

[Pigletwillie]

I dont think the finest range is organic Lauren, however they were grown organically.

[RosieMcPosie]

MMMMMMM,  i love those peppers from tesco, will deffo try the seeds next time!
they look lovely well done!

[Tee Gee]

Can't beat the supermarket can you? ;)..Well done!!

Won't go into the 'organic' issue as their suppliers have different rules of how to grow 'organic' than we do!! :-X

[Lauren S]

Thanks Piglet. Seeeeeeee, you don't know unless you try  ;D

Thanks for sharing the tip 

Lauren  :)

[Tora]

Thanks for this Piglet! I saved some seeds from a similar pepper bought from ASDA ('Extra Special' product) last year and sowed them. They all germinated but it was a bit too late so I never got any fruit. I will try again next year! :)

[manicscousers]

we've saved some seed from lidl's long red pepper, lovely and sweet, will try them next year, after seeing your success  ;D

[Pigletwillie]

Some supermarkets now list the variety of fruit or veg. if they do just check that its not an F1 variety before you try as obviously these seeds will not come true to type.

Also, as all capsicums are very promiscuous, beware saving your own seed for the next season unless you grow them in isolation.

[Biscombe]

Jut a tip, If you want to save 'true' pepper seeds cover unopened flower buds with PVA glue, saves isolating or building cages which can be a real pain ..........

[tim]

Sadly, TG, that's very true!!