On Sun, 26 Jun 2005 15:07:49 GMT, Sue
wrote:

I've grown green bells in the past, but this is my first year trying
red and yellow bells. I have lots of peppers, but they're all green -
so far. My problem is that I didn't label them and don't remember
which are which. So, I don't know which I can pick now and which
should sit on the plant waiting to turn color. There is *no* hint of
color (other than green, of course) on any of them.

Green bell peppers are just unripe red, yellow, orange, etc
peppers. If you had left the peppers you grew in the past on the
plant, they would have ripened up just like the ones you're
growing right now.

Ripe (red, yellow, etc.) bell peppers in grocery stores are more
expensive than the greens because it takes longer to grown them,
more things can go wrong during the ripening process, and their
shelf life is shorter than unripe bell peppers.

The uncivilized nature of eating unripe peppers when one has a
choice of letting them ripen is a rant...er discussion for
another time.


Penelope
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