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Growing Chillies

Hairy Little Fellas

March 10, 2012

I was watering the seedlings today and as the light shone through the window i realised just how hairy some of them are. Both the lemon drops (top) and rocoto red (middle and bottom) are pretty hairy looking when you get up close! Since moving them under my CFL grow light their growth has sped [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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, [...]

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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 [...]

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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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Avoiding Aphids – My 4 Point Plan

May 2, 2011

Over the last few years of growing chillies by far the most common pest my plants have faced have been aphids. Over the last few years I’ve posted about how to treat an aphid infestation so this year i thought it was about time i was a bit more proactive and attempted to take preventative [...]

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Best Potting Medium for Chillies

April 11, 2011

When buying regular potting compost the first decision you’ll face is whether to opt for peat free or not. Peat free has traditionally been the best kind however it is particularly bad for the environment as it is harvested from the natural environment, usually from areas with fragile and diverse eco-systems. While there are some [...]

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Looking After Chilli Seedlings

April 9, 2011

Disaster has struck. Yesterday morning i forgot to take the propagator lid off one tray of chillies that were on the conservatory window sill. I got home and discovered that the seedlings that had germinated had been frazzled by the heat. The conservatory itself got up over 35 degrees so it must have been even [...]

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