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Growing Chillies

Slugs & Snails

May 11, 2010
Snail On a Leaf

Once you have raised your chillie plants from seeds and nurtured their move outside to take advantage of the spring sunshine there is nothing more annoying than seeing your future crop decimated by slugs or snails. In just 3 or 4 nights slugs or snails can do a huge amount of damage to chilli plants [...]

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Growing Bell Peppers

May 4, 2010
Growing Bell Peppers

We quite often get asked by readers for advice about about growing bell peppers from seed. While most of the advice on this site is dedicated to growing hot peppers, we also grow our fair share of sweet peppers. Bell peppers are not only easy to grow but are great to cook with – both [...]

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Pepper Germination Success

April 9, 2010
Chilli Peppper Seedlings

Just a quick update. Thanks to the heat mat i mentioned on my last post most of the seeds i planted just over a week ago have germinated, even some of the bhut jolokia which is pretty impressive considering they’ve only been planted just under two weeks!

The above seedlings are mainly cayenne and are looking [...]

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Speeding Up Pepper Germination

March 29, 2010
Speeding Up Pepper Germination

If like me you don’t get round to planting your peppers early then there are a couple of ways you can speed up the germination and growth of your chilli plants in the early stages of their life.
In this post we’ll take a look at how you can speed up the germination of your chilli [...]

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Chillie Growers…Start Your Engines

March 20, 2010

Now that the New Year is upon us it is time to start thinking about the 2010 chillie growing season. Last year I made the mistake of planting my seeds too late, a mistake I am not going to make again this year.
Firstly I have been overwintering some of my plants in order to get [...]

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Overwintering Chillies – Update 3

March 20, 2010
Overwintering Failure

Disaster has struck my efforts to overwinter a number of chilli plants.
Before going away for a 3 week holiday in the new year I entrusted my overwintering plants top my fathers care as I didn’t want to leave them unwatered for about 3 and a half weeks. At my dads they were moved to a [...]

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5 Chilli Pepper Growing Tips

March 1, 2010

With the new years (and chilli growing season) ahead of us we thought we’d post some simply tips to help your chilli growing efforts this year.
Start Growing Early
Growing chillies in the relatively cool climate of the Europe (the same for North America) generally means that the time your plants have to fruit is much less [...]

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Overwintering Chillies – Update 2

January 7, 2010

Back in mid October I prepared my chilli plants for overwintering.  I chose 9 plants in total; 2 varieties of habanero, 1 birds eye, 1 apache, 1 Bulgarian Carrot and 1 Super Chilli F1. They were all chopped back so that only about 5 inches of the stem remained and they were moved inside onto [...]

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Overwintering Chillies – Update 1

November 9, 2009

Well it has been almost a month since i brought my chilli plants inside to overwinter them. As you can see from the photographs below they have burst back into life since i chopped them back in the middles of October.
There are two main reasons the plants have sprung back to life:

Heat: The plants have [...]

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Preparing To Over Winter Chillies

October 11, 2009

Now that it looks like winter is fast approaching, i thought it was about time i started preparing some of my plants for the winter. As mentioned in our over wintering chillies article most chillies are not annuals as most people think. By taking your chilli plants you can get a massive head start on [...]

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