What Chilli Varieties Are Your Growing? [Reader Survey]

May 25, 2010
Which Chilli Variety Are You Growing?

We’ve been receiving lots of emails from readers lately asking all sorts of questions about the chillies they are growing. What has struck me is the vast variety of chillies that everyone is growing. I thought it would be interesting to conduct a little survey of our readers to try and establish what the most [...]

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Hardening Off Chilli Plants

May 24, 2010
Hardening Off Chilli Plants

Up until recently this years crop of chillies have been living under lights down in my cellar. With the weather being so unpredictable this is by far the safest option as down there they avoid any cold nights in the greenhouse as well a constant supply of light from the florescent tubes. Recently, after moving [...]

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Potting On Chilli Plants

May 14, 2010
Chilli Seedlings Ready To Pot On

It is now Spring and I have a healthy batch of chilli seedlings well on the way. I’ve been extremely busy over the last few weeks moving home as well as starting a new job so i’ve neglecting my chilli plants a bit recently.
After my plants germinated back in the first week of April I [...]

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ChilliKing Updates

May 14, 2010

Dear Readers,
As many of our regular readers have noticed our site has undergone somewhat of a transormation in recent weeks. We’ve migrated the site onto a new content management system (which was a very painful process!) which should make maintaining the site much easier going forward, allowing us to spend more time on creating interesting [...]

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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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