Winter peppers

I was very surprised to see that my pepper plant, growing on the kitchen window sill, has 3 small peppers developing.

Especially as the season is a snowy winter. It seems that the warmth from the kitchen and from the sun through the kitchen window has fooled the plant into producing fruit.

Flowers started to appear a few of weeks ago.

The pepper plant was the only plant out of the 5 or 6 I grew last year that I kept indoors. The others were left in the greenhouse and as the weather grew colder the plants eventually died.

This variety of pepper will produce only small peppers and so is suited to growing in a small area such as the window sill.

These pictures are more recent than this post (end of March 2009) and shows the peppers near just as they have turned red and close to harvest time.

You can see down edges on one of the leaves. Im not sure what that is caused by by I am trying to water the plant more often and feeding it with Baby Bio. Not sure if the Baby Bio is the right thing to feed it so I shall research this a bit more.

The leaves go pale and drop off every so often but other leaves are a deep green and the plant looks healthy.