Green peppers: You can let them ripen with the pot trick

2022-08-10T09:38:20.183Z

Harvesting Green Peppers: The pod is unripe but edible Created: 08/10/2022, 11:30 am By: Ines Alms Green peppers are edible, but a sign that they were harvested too early. There is a trick to letting the pods ripen. You can eat green peppers from the supermarket, of course. But what about the self-cultivated ones, does that also apply there or only for certain cultivated forms? The color of th

Harvesting Green Peppers: The pod is unripe but edible

Created: 08/10/2022, 11:30 am

By: Ines Alms

Green peppers are edible, but a sign that they were harvested too early.

There is a trick to letting the pods ripen.

You can eat green peppers from the supermarket, of course.

But what about the self-cultivated ones, does that also apply there or only for certain cultivated forms?

The color of the peppers gives information about their degree of ripeness.

And a green pepper is perfectly edible, just a bit more bitter.

Harvesting Green Peppers: The pod is unripe but edible

The degree of ripeness of the peppers ranges from green to red.

They all taste good.

The harvest starts in July, and if the weather cooperates, you can pick peppers until October.

A ripe fruit can be recognized by the fact that it has reached the color typical of its variety.

A green pod is not a specific variety, but an immature state of the fruit.

But even a pepper that is harvested unripe can be very tasty.

The best-known example of this is the Spanish Pimientos de Padrón, which are often fried and served as tapas.

The green vegetables not only taste good, the pods also contain less sugar and more healthy bitter substances than their colorful relatives.

The substances lower cholesterol levels and support digestion.

Allow the peppers to finish ripening: with the pot method

Before a pepper plant collapses under the weight of its many fruits, it makes sense to harvest peppers or hot peppers when they are green.

That being said, it's important to let them mature on the plant.

In contrast to tomatoes, the picked fruit usually does not ripen, so it no longer turns red or yellow.

According to the

Topfgartenwelt

blog, there is still a way to let the peppers ripen in late autumn, when the green pods are already so ripe that the skin shows a soft sheen:

Dig the peppers and their roots out of the bed and put them in a pot or bucket.
Place the plant in the house or apartment at around 20 degrees Celsius - the basement is a good place for this, for example - and water it regularly.
After about two to three weeks, the fruits are yellow or red.

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If the harvest is very good, peppers or chili peppers can be preserved well.

Large fruits can be pickled, frozen or made into a chutney, smaller chillies are easy to dry.