<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Paprika on Michael’s Domain</title><link>https://jeltsch.org/en/tags/paprika/</link><description>Recent content in Paprika on Michael’s Domain</description><generator>Hugo</generator><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright © 2002 - 2026 Michael Jeltsch.</copyright><lastBuildDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:18:18 +0300</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://jeltsch.org/en/tags/paprika/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>Paprika harvest is starting soon</title><link>https://jeltsch.org/en/paprika_harvest_is_starting_soon/</link><pubDate>Sun, 21 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://jeltsch.org/en/paprika_harvest_is_starting_soon/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;For the first time, we will have a decent paprika harvest from our balcony garden. We have had success with 
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, 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 
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. Do you want to know which breed we seeded? We used the seeds from the red Ramiro paprika that you can buy from Prisma: 
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