Discover the ornamental as well as the culinary aspect of chillies and capsicums, their brightly coloured fruit is an added attraction.

Get busy, plant out chillies and capsicums for a summer harvest. They are packed full of vitamin C.

If you are short on garden space, chillies and capsicums can even be grown in a pot. If growing in a pot, please do justice by the plant and use a premium quality potting mix.

United Nurseries range varies from the mild mannered bell capsicums to the fierce hot chillies for the very brave.

Amigo Chillies

Diablo Chilli

• Medium hot flavour.
• Long shaped chilli fruit.
• Fruit colouring is green turning glossy, deep red.
• Use fresh in cooked in condiments, salsa, soups, and cooked dishes.

Inferno Chilli

• Extremely hot flavour.
• A short tapered, red hot chilli.
• Fruit colouring is green turning red.
• It is perfect for adding a hot spicy taste to Mexican and other cuisine.

Jalapeno Chilli

• Mild flavour.
• Short, cylindrical, juicy Mexican chilli , 50-75mm long.
• The chillies are produced freely, maturing in 9-11 weeks.
• Colouring is dark green turning red.
• It is ideal for using fresh or cooked in condiments, salsa, soups, meat and vegetable dishes, appetizers and desserts. Jalapeno is one of the preferred chillies for Mexican cooking.

Serrano Chilli

• A warm rating when green and hot when red.
• Small, finger-shaped Mexican chilli 50-75mm long. Foliage is lacy
• An abundant cropper.
• Used for sauces, guacamole, relishes, vegetable dishes, seasoning and garnishes.

Asian Chillies

Caysan Chilli

• Rating of moderately hot.
• Smooth, straight, tapered fruit approximately 125-150mm in length. Fruit is dark green turning bright red as it ripens.
• Vigorous and bears prolific yields.
• Used widely in Indo-Chinese cooking including hot pepper sauces, Cajun-Creole dishes, Indian, Indonesian, Thai, Pakistan and Hunan dishes. Can also be dried and powdered as a spice.

Siam Chilli

• Hot rating.
• Long, thin fruit, which taper to a point.
• Fruit colour is green turning to bright golden yellow.
• Used in Indo-Chinese cooking, ideal for adding colour to dishes.
  

Euro Chillies

Yellow Hot Wax Chilli

• A medium hot flavour.
• Commonly known as Banana Chilli, Hungarian in origin.
• Long tapering, smooth, waxy chillies 150-1200mm long.
• Small, compact bush.
• Fruit colouring is bright yellow turning red.
• It is ideal for stuffing, general cooking and fresh use.
  

Habanero Chillies

• Very hot, flavour.
• Lantern shaped chilli.
• Habanero range includes Orange, Red, Yellow and Brown varieties.
• Extremely hot spicy taste in cuisine.

Capsicum

Sweet Long Yellow Capsicum

• Common name: sweet banana pepper.
• Fruit colour: Green turning bright yellow turning red when fully ripe.
• Abundant fruit and is excellent for salads, salsa, sandwiches and stuffing.

Amigo Gold Capsicum

• Attractive, sweet blocky capsicum.
• Fruit colour: Green ripening to golden yellow.
• Perfect for salads, salsa, sandwiches and stuffing. Use fresh or cooked.

Amigo Purple Capsicum

• Attractive, sweet blocky capsicum.
• Fruit colour green ripening to a glossy, deep purple.
• Use fresh or cooked, in salads, salsa and sandwiches.

Amigo Red Capsicum

• Attractive, sweet blocky capsicum.
• Fruit colouring being green ripening to bright red.
• Use in salads, salsa and sandwiches.

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