Owen Pidgeon's tips on growing capsicums and chillies in Canberra

By Owen Pidgeon
Updated December 5 2015 - 10:23am, first published November 17 2015 - 11:45pm

The wonderful colours of capsicums and chillies present those living in the cooler regions of Australia with a challenge. They originated in the central and south American tropical zones. The earliest records can date them back to more than 8000 years with seeds found in Mexican settlements. The Aztecs grew the hot peppers and they were also being grown for millennia in Ecuador.

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