The first time we visited Dyrk Nørrebro, the local urban garden on the roof of a school, one of the gardeners gave us a pepper plant. The little plant was wilty and all of the peppers were green. It had been growing since April with not a single ripe pepper. This summer in Copenhagen has been very wet with not a lot of sun. The peppers were not able to ripen in the elements available on the rooftop.
We brought the plant home around two weeks ago and now we have several ripe red peppers. Growing indoors seems to allow the pepper plant the conditions it needs for ripening. An interesting situation when it turns out that it is better to have a plant growing inside rather than out.
We did add growing lights that we keep on for a few hours at night. Days are getting shorter here so far north, so the plant does need a little bit of extra help. You can see the growing light in the back left of the above image. They are simple “daylight” florescent bulbs and that was all the pepper plant needed to go crazy with red ripe peppers.
Thanks to Dyrk Nørrebro for giving us the chance to rescue the droopy pepper plant to ripeness. Next step: cooking with these shiny peppers. Because we didn’t raise this one from the start, we are not sure if its super spicy or not, but tips for pepper recipes are welcome.
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