When to plant bell peppers in Worcester: 19 June – 2 August

In Worcester, bell pepper: sow for seedlings from 30 March to 3 June; plant into a greenhouse from 29 May to 2 August; plant out into open ground from 19 June to 2 August.

Bell Pepper in Worcester: soil, season and weather

In Worcester the soil, not frost, sets the date: the last frost is over around 15 April, but the top 7 cm of soil reaches 18 °C — the minimum on the bell pepper card — only around 19 June, 65 days later.

Last spring frost	15 April
Top 7 cm of soil at 18 °C	19 June, 65 days after the last frost
Into an unheated greenhouse	29 May – 2 August; May outside: 7.7 °C at night, 16.8 °C by day; card 15–30 °C
First autumn frost	22 November, 156 days after the start
Days in the bed to the first harvest (card)	70
First harvest, if planted in this window	28 August – 11 October
Days left for picking	86
Daylight	14:12 on 20 April, 16:46 on 19 June
Watering outdoors when fruiting (card)	every 4 days; the driest month, August, has 11 rainy days

The same dates in Worcester hold for Cucumber, Eggplant, Zucchini, Pumpkin and Watermelon.

Bell Pepper in Worcester: care after planting

Planted on 19 June: in the first weeks water every 5 days.

Feeding, by the card’s schedule from that day:

19 June — feed: balanced (NPK)
17 July — feed: nitrogen

Pests and diseases of bell pepper to watch for:

Dates count from the first planting day of the window above; a later planting moves them by as many days.

Weather in Worcester during the bell pepper season

No month of the season averages above the bell pepper card's 15–30 °C by day; the warmest, July, averages 21.6 °C. Months that stay below 15 °C even by day on average: October (14.6 °C) and November (10.2 °C). Nights average below 15 °C in every month of the season, from 4.6 °C to 12.8 °C.

Month	Day, °C	Night, °C	Rain, mm	Rainy days	Daylight on the 15th
June	19.9	11	68	12	16:44
July	21.6	12.8	63	12	16:19
August	21.2	12.7	59	11	14:44
September	18.6	10.6	71	12	12:43
October	14.6	8.1	84	13	10:43
November	10.2	4.6	76	13	8:49

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Bell Pepper in nearby cities

1 of the nearest cities share Worcester's date.

City	Distance	Date	Difference
Birmingham	40 km	20 June – 30 July	1 day later
Coventry	54 km	21 June – 28 July	2 days later
Oxford	82 km	23 June – 3 August	4 days later
Bristol	86 km	19 June – 2 August	same day
Leicester	89 km	21 June – 30 July	2 days later
Stoke-on-Trent	93 km	20 June – 26 July	1 day later

Where to buy bell pepper plants and seeds near Worcester

Buy plants ready to set out from 19 June to 2 August (from 29 May to 2 August for an unheated greenhouse); seed for raising your own is sown from 30 March to 3 June. Within 15 km of Worcester OpenStreetMap lists 10 garden centres, 4 plant nurseries, 2 markets and 8 farm shops (collected 28 October 2026).

Earls Croome Nursery — garden centre
12 km
Three Springs Nurseries — garden centre
13 km
St Peters Garden Centre — garden centre
4 km
Link Nurseries — garden centre
5 km

Each window starts on the Greenly calendar date and ends on the last day that still leaves the crop’s days to harvest (from its card) before the average first autumn frost, plus six weeks of picking for crops harvested over weeks (tomatoes, peppers, aubergines, cucumbers, courgettes, pumpkins, watermelons, beans) — our rule; earlier in the window is safer.

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