Paprika harvest is starting soon

Last modified on July 24, 2026 • 1 min read • 143 words

For the first time, we will have a decent paprika harvest from our balcony garden. We have had success with cucumbers and tomatoes , but our paprika plants were always attacked early on in the growing season by some spider mites, which seem to be indigenous to our balcony. However, the fruits are just now starting to get their red color. Hopefully, all will get red before the first night temperatures fall below zero on our balcony, but that is often only the case in late December, since the balcony is glassed. Of course, green paprika is also edible, but the red ones just contain more vitamins (at least more vitamin C  and folic acid/vitamin B9  . Do you want to know which breed we seeded? We used the seeds from the red Ramiro paprika that you can buy from Prisma: https://www.s-kaupat.fi/tuote/coop-makea-suippopaprika-300g/6438574276493  .