I bought some Romano sweet red peppers from Lidl and saved the seeds. I gave one of the plants to a friend on a nearby plot and this is the result.
(http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c333/Aragona/DSC_0328.jpg)
Quite impressive really... :)
Fantastic Betty. All my peppers are still green
I did exactly the same thing, saved some Romano seeds from a supermarket pepper and had the best crop off of them! ;D ::)
Might give that a go next year, my peppers have been rubbish this year in terms of crop size.... they taste OK though....
chrisc
I did the same last year using Tesco's Ramio organic pepper, country of origin UK, this ensures that it should be OK to grow in this country – worked really well