Bell Peppers my @$$

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Welcome to my Dubai based container vegetable gardening blog.

Well ...... to say the least I am bit pissed off  upset!!!  I wash my face every day and if I am going to go out and buy vegetable plants I even give it a pretty good scrubbing!  I look at it in the mirror and it looks clean ... there nothing else there but my ugly old mug ... so, how is it these plant vendors can still see "Sucker" written all over my face?!?

Does this look like a Bell Pepper to you?

Know your Capsicum!!!

Howdy!

Welcome to my Dubai based container vegetable gardening blog.

As the heading says - Know your Capsicum before buying pepper plants in Dubai.  I was out in Satwa and came across a plant shop with some pepper plants that already had flowers on them.  I asked the shopkeeper what the plants were (I knew they were pepper plants but not what kind) and he said "Chili".  I said I did not want chili peppers (being from the West we are not as big a chili pepper eaters as our friends from the subcontinent - that said Peppers orginated in South America I believe).  I must have had "I'm a big dumb Sucker" written on my forehead in his language.  He then said "Oh sir, these are Capsicum - the big ones" making a gesture of a large fruit simliar in shape and size of a bell pepper. 

Update

Howdy, welcome to my blog. 

Been away for a couple of weeks and returned to find the few plants I had planted before leaving are still alive and doing well.  They were watered properly this time.  I planted some tamters, eggplant and a chili pepper.