Best time to plant capsicum in Darwin
Capsicum annuum
Also called bell pepper, sweet pepper
Sow capsicum in Darwin in All year.
In Australia capsicum means the mild fruit known elsewhere as bell or sweet pepper, from a nightshade plant native to the Americas. Fruit is eaten raw or cooked and ripens from green to red, yellow, orange or chocolate depending on variety. Hot forms of the same species, Capsicum annuum, appear here under chilli.
When to sow in Darwin
Darwin, NT is in the tropical zone. Its months for capsicum apply here without a frost adjustment.
Broadly matches local guides, with some differences.
Your local conditions can shift any months shown here, so treat them as a guide.
Frost in Darwin
Darwin frosts in fewer than 1 year in 10, so frost doesn't hold back any planting here.
From its Bureau of Meteorology station, 1991 to 2020, counting a night at 2°C or lower as a frost. Frost hollows and hillsides can shift these dates by weeks, so ask the growers at your garden too.
On a shared plot: suits a plot
Finishes in a season and stays within its space, so it suits most plots.
Growing details
- How to start
- Raise seedlings, then transplant
- Sowing depth
- 5mm
- Plant spacing
- 45cm
- Row spacing
- 100cm
- Height
- 50cm
- Germination
- 5-21 days
- Time to harvest
- 70 days
- Frost
- Frost tender
- Sun
- Full sun
- Life cycle
- perennial, grown as an annual in cool climates
These are typical figures, and varieties differ. Your seed packet takes priority.