‘Fat Baby’

Fat Baby is remarkably easy to grow, and can be used raw in salads when small a bit like a cucumber.

It is a quick and vigorous climber and you can climb it up and over anything, including garden sheds, although it does need a sunny open spot. Definitely best outdoors though and not in a polytunnel, because it tends to take over if grown inside. 

The best thing however, is that the mature fruit taste very much like green peppers when fried – yet they can be grown outdoors with ease and set masses of fruit with no effort.

To cook, simply cut open and flick out the seeds (saving a few for future planting of course) and then slice and fry just as a green pepper. Very similar taste to green peppers, just much easier to grow! Here they are on a very popular pizza Kate made for a dinner party (the tomato sauce is of course yellow – using Plum Lemon Tomato – just for fun, the achochas are the green bits.)

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