Sweet Pepper 'Snack Yellow' F1

Common name: Sweet pepper

Description: 'Snack Yellow' F1 is a delightful mini sweet pepper producing prolific quantities of small, brightly coloured yellow snacking fruits that ripen from green to sunny yellow. The sweet, thin-walled fruits are perfect for eating directly from the plant, adding to salads, or packing into lunchboxes. The compact, bushy plants are particularly well suited to container growing on patios or balconies, where they provide an attractive and rewarding crop from midsummer onwards.

Other benefits: very prolific, ideal for snacking and salads, compact habit excellent for containers, attractive ornamental fruiting display, easy to grow

Wildlife attraction: Bees pollinate the white flowers throughout summer.

Height & spread (approx.) at maturity: 50–60cm x 35cm

Position: Full sun in a warm, sheltered spot.

Soil pH: Neutral; fertile, moist, well-drained compost.

Moisture: Water consistently and feed with high-potash fertiliser weekly once fruiting begins.

Winter hardiness: Frost-tender perennial grown as a half-hardy annual; plant out once all risk of frost has passed and bring indoors or discard in autumn.