Sweet pepper · Algiers, Algiers, Algeria
When to plant sweet peppers in Algiers
Main outdoor window
15 Feb - 8 Mar
The window this page is built around.
Timed from last spring frost
1 February
In Algiers, on your chosen risk.
Ready to pick
16 Apr - 16 May
If you plant at the start of the window.
The average last frost. Half of all years are later than this.
Step by step in Algiers
Each window is a range, not a single day. Earlier in the range buys you a longer season; later in it buys you a safer one.
Start indoors
6-27 Dec
Eight weeks before your last frost, under cover or on a windowsill.
Plant out
15 Feb - 8 Mar
Two weeks after your last frost.
Harvest
16 Apr - 16 May
Sweet peppers through the year
Against the frost risk in Algiers
Why these dates
Peppers germinate slowly and unevenly below 24C, so start them two weeks ahead of tomatoes. Bottom heat makes a bigger difference here than for any other common vegetable.
Frost kills peppers outright, but the more common failure is chilling injury: a week of nights near 5C stunts a young plant for the rest of the season without visibly damaging it.
Seed packets and extension guides express timing as weeks either side of the last spring frost, because that is the only reference point that travels. Sweet peppers are timed from 8 weeks before that frost for an indoor start, with planting out 2 weeks after it, and this page simply resolves those offsets against the frost date computed for Algiers.
Also in Algiers
Other vegetables to time
Growing sweet peppers in Algiers
When should I plant sweet peppers in Algiers?
Aim for 15 Feb - 8 Mar in an average year. If you would rather not gamble on the weather, wait until 18 Feb - 11 Mar - by then frost has finished in nine years out of ten.
When will sweet peppers be ready to harvest in Algiers?
Expect to start picking around 16 Apr - 16 May, based on 60 to 90 days to maturity from the planting date calculated for this location.
How much frost will sweet peppers tolerate?
Frost kills peppers outright, but the more common failure is chilling injury: a week of nights near 5C stunts a young plant for the rest of the season without visibly damaging it.