Thank you everyone for your responses about my question about when to pick a capsicum (see above). We had the big moment tonight. Our six year old grandson is here for a sleepover and loves picking fruit. He picked the small, green capsicum, we divided it into quarters and each of us ate a piece. The skin was quite thin and it definitely could have lasted longer on the bush (yes, they do go red after a while) but there is nothing like sharing a piece of home grown produce with a child. Thank you @LifeTimeCooking for your responses. We don't get frosts here - inner Melbourne no longer seems to get them, so would the plant be OK to sit outside during winter? Our biggest problem is that during winter our tiny backyard only gets about an hour of sunlight. @aeduna - you left a capsicum on a bush for 8 months here in Melbourne! Interesting to know for the future. There are a couple of flowers on the plant currently so maybe I will have the opportunity to let the fruit ripen slowly for that long. @weezmgk Stuffed capsicums - yum! I live in Melbourne, Australia so we are entering autumn and despite warm and hot days next week, temperatures are on the way down. I am not sure what words Europeans use for capsicum, including the English. To Australians the word is used for sweet capsicums which are never spicy like chillies. That, and the confusion over season shows why country-based gardening hashtags can be useful. I also add the hashtag for our city as our country has hot, dry deserts, tropics, sub-tropics, temperate and in a few places, alpine climates. Gardening is very different around the country. I like the way the US has very clear climate zones that people use. I know that kind of thing exists here but not so widely used. I should look up my Australian climate zone and use it in posts. #GardeningAU #gardening #Melbourne