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Growing Chillies

2012 Germination Update

January 29, 2012

As i’ve discussed before there are loads of different ways to germinate chilli seeds and everyone has their favourite method. I usually use a regular propagator placed on top of a reptile heat mat in order to boost the heat delivered to the seeds (it’s also much cheaper than a heated propagator). I did this for the fist week after [...]

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Planting Pepper Seeds

January 11, 2012

As mentioned in my last post it’s time to start thinking about growing some chillies in 2012. The first week in January seems to be an excellent time to get some seeds in the dirt and get a really good early start to the growing season.

I mentioned before about the free Serrano seeds I got [...]

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2012 Growing Season

January 8, 2012

So it is just a week or two since I picked the last pepper pods of 2011 and now it is time to turn my thoughts to 2012.
Over the past few years my seed box has grown and grown and rarely been cleared out as you can see. I’ve decided this is the year to [...]

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Time to Over Winter

December 19, 2011

I’ve posted before about overwintering peppers on the site and we still get loads of emails from readers asking about when and how to do it. Therefore I decided to post a detailed description of what i do to over winter my chillies.
Over wintering a pepper plants is not as hard as many people think. [...]

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End of the Chilli Growing Season

December 13, 2011

Well as I said a few weeks ago it has been a bonkers year for growing chillies in the new year. As you can see below those last few pods have ripened and despite it being the middle of December I am still picking ripe Scotch Bonnets.

Above is the last bonnet of the year, taken [...]

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Self Watering Planters

December 6, 2011

One problem i face every year is what to do with my chilli plants when I go away for a few days during the summer. It can be soul destroying to put so much effort into nurturing your chilli plants right through the winter and spring only to have them fry during a hot summers [...]

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End of season jobs

November 20, 2011

It’s mid November, the nights have drawn in and winter it seems is well and truly with us. As we wonder if those last few pods will ripen there are a few jobs that we can be getting on with in order to help prepare for a great year of chilli growing next year…
Harvets the [...]

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Making Compost – A Comprehensive Guide

October 15, 2011

Its getting to that time of year when plants start dying back and the garden starts to look a bit scruffy. I tend to grow a lot of potted plants, not just chillies so at this time of the year I have large quantities of dead plants, root balls and other garden waste to dispose [...]

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Naga Lotta Growth

August 6, 2011

It’s amazing what you find at the back of the greenhouse sometimes. Yesterday I was rooting round trying to find the labels that i dropped down the back of the staging and low and behold there were two naga chilli plants i’d fogotten about months ago!

Amazingly the plants were still alive despite not having been [...]

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Treat Em Mean & Keep Em Keen

August 3, 2011

Back in April I talked about how some Super Chilli F1 seedling got badly scorched after I left the propagator they were in on a sunny windowsill on a particularly hot day. Seedlings that are so small are incredibly susceptible to a change in their environment as i found out to my cost.

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