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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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Early Flowering Scotch Bonnet

April 12, 2011

I was checking out my over wintered scotch bonnet plant at the weekend. Since sprouting new shoots back at the start of March my one surviving plant from last year has been putting on some good growth.

I’ve got plans to try and take some cuttings from this plant once the plant has put out some [...]

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Spring has sprung

March 17, 2011

Well it looks like Spring is here after a week of glorious sunshine. I’m still waiting for some of my seeds to germinate and am going to get busy planting some more in the next week or so.

As you can see below the one surviving chilli plant from last year is really getting going again. [...]

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Over Wintering Chillies – New Growth

February 14, 2011

Well for quite a while now my chilli plants that i am over wintering have been looking increasingly dead.After trimming them back in December, the plants have been looking so dormant i thought they were dead. First of all the stems took on a hallow look then the stems themselves started to turn black in [...]

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Hallow Stem

December 31, 2010

Having selected a few plants to over winter a few weeks ago i trimmed them back to help them preserve their energy over the cold months and moved them inside to keep them away from the very cold temperatures.
Unfortunately we ran out of heating oil for about 1 week just before Christmas and as a [...]

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Chilly Chillies

December 20, 2010

Unfortunately I left this poor plant outside a few weeks ago when i began to over winter my plants. I went outside at the weekend to discover it sitting in about 5 inches of snow.

In order to give the plants I moved inside the best chance I am using my trusty greenhouse heater to keep the [...]

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Time to Over Winter

December 2, 2010

Here in the UK the snow is falling and winter is most definitely here. As i mentioned a few weeks ago while i was having a tidy of the chilli house, over wintering some of my best plants is very much on my mind.

On our main over wintering article we discuss how to over winter [...]

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Time for a Tidy Up

November 7, 2010

Well winter is well and truly approaching as the temperatures are falling and we are in danger of having our first frost. Its about this time of the year that there are a few jobs I’ve been putting off and the garden needs a bit of a tidy up before winter fully sets in.

Many of [...]

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Overwintering Chillies – Update 3

March 20, 2010

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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