French tomatoes, peppers and chillis under threat from dangerous virus

French tomatoes, peppers and chillies under threat from dangerous virus

French tomatoes, peppers and chillies under threat from dangerous virus

To grow and bear fruit they need light and above all heat.

This week it’s bacon, next week it’ll be tomatoes or Pepsi.

But did you know mushrooms are also easy and fun to cultivate?

Spicy red peppers are mixtures of several varieties of the hottest chilli peppers and they are sold in accordance with their pungent power.

Every day the boys start work at 5:30 a.m., harvesting peppers to be packed and sold across Israel, the West Bank, and elsewhere in the world.

When Columbus brought dried peppers back from the West Indies, Europeans said the fruit was “hotter than the pepper of the Caucasus,” the familiar table spice.