Chilli Up North Blog

If like me you went a bit crazy at the start of the season and planted way too many chilli seeds, then like me you will now have way too many lovely fresh spicy chillis and be wondering what to do with them. Well i have your answer – for the next few days i [...]

This month has been really busy in the garden, there has been lots to harvest, the first chillis have been ripening nicely, the sweet peppers have been growing like crazy and i now seem to have a glut of tomatoes. I have mainly been using the tomatoes in salads and sauces as well as giving [...]

Well thanks to a little bit of sunshine in the last couple of days, a few of my chillis have ripened, unfortunately one of my huge spanish peppers had gone mouldy, i think it had been attacked by slugs so  i will have to go on a slug hunt soon. The weather has also brought [...]

Feeding and watering your chillis is a lot easier than you might think as chilli plants are quite hardy. Chilli plants like the soil to be moist but well drained so to get an idea for how moist the soil is, i usually stick a wooden bbq skewer into the soil and see how damp [...]

I can’t believe it’s been so long since i posted on here, things are pretty hectic here and ive been busy working away on the new website in my spare time. the garden has also gone mad with the weather causing everything to shoot up and grow like crazy…well apart from the chilli plants which [...]

Popped into poundland at the weekend to see what gardening goodies they had, i ended up picking up a  couple of these polytunnels. they are 1.5m x 45cm x 45cm and cost…..you guessed it £1. I was suprised at how sturdy they were for the money so im currently giving them a trial at warming [...]

I’ve seen upside down tomato planters kicking around in shops and online but they were quite expenisve so i decided to try and make my own. I guess it will work for chillis to and as i am probably going to run out of space on the greenhouse floor i think ill try it with [...]

Hi Guys, Time for part 3 of the Chilli Up North Chilli Growing Guide. Once you have successfully germinated your chillis, it won’t be long before you need to transplant them into a bigger pot, this is also called potting on. i usually like to pot my seedlings on once the 2nd set of leaves [...]

Finally got time to sow my chilli seeds today, a bit later than usual but as the saying goes…better late than never. So far ive planted: explosive ember fisus blue orange habenero sweet pepper fish chilli violette cayenne golden cayenne satans kiss dorset naga peter pecker pepper chilli fuego mystery pepper hot portugal hidalgo i [...]

Nipped into wilkinsons today and picked up these two trellis for growing my beans up and the best bit is that they were on offer and they also knocked some money off at the till for some reason so I got two for £3   Wikio Wikio