Time to Over Winter

December 19, 2011
Time to Over Winter My Peppers

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 [...]

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Stuffed Romano Peppers Recipe

December 17, 2011
Stuffed Romano Peppers Recipe

This stuffed pepper recipe makes a great starter for an evening meal or a nice lunch along with a fresh salad.. Inspired by Mediterranean cooking this is a light and delicious recipe and very easy to make. Please excuse the poor photo (i don’t have my camera to hand) – trust me they look a lot better [...]

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End of the Chilli Growing Season

December 13, 2011
The End of the Growing Season

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, [...]

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Chilli Pickle Recipe

December 10, 2011

This is a great little recipe for a fresh chilli pickle which makes a perfect accompaniment to any Indian meal. You can vary the amounts of ingredients to taste or depending on how hot you like it. Chilli Pickle Ingredients 1 red sweet chilli peppeer 2 fresh green birds eye chillies 1 reaspoon of salt [...]

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Self Watering Planters

December 6, 2011
Self Watering Container - Plans

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
End of Season Jobs

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 [...]

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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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Eating Bhut Jolokia

August 11, 2011
When Eating Bhut Jolokias Goes Wrong!

It’s amazing what some people will do to get on youtube. Last night i stumbled onto loads of videos of people’s reactions after eating hot chilli peppers. Some of the reactions are hilarious…i thought I’d post a few…. This one is great – two girls both sit down to eat a Bhut Jolokia (the worlds [...]

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Naga Lotta Growth

August 6, 2011
Stunted Naga Chilli Plant

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 [...]

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Treat Em Mean & Keep Em Keen

August 3, 2011
F1 Super Chilli Plants

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. As you [...]

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