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Wilkinsons

Wilkinsons high street store is a fantastic source of chilli and veg growing equipment and seeds. I popped in yesterday to buy my spuds and onions for this year and they had a great array of ready to grow sets ranging from herbs and spices to chillis and peppers then to carrot and spud bags. [...]

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Growing Chillis Part 2: Germination

Germination is the first stage of growing chillis (unless you cheat and buy seedlings or grown plants). it basically involves activating the seed and prompting it to sprout. There are many different ways of germinating seeds I’m going to cover just 2. Many people as when they should sow their seeds, again its totally up [...]

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Growing Chillis Part 1: Getting Started

Getting started with growing chillis is pretty easy and cost effective, especially when you consider the varieties you can grow and the number of chilli pods you will get compared to how much chillis are in the supermarket. There are a few things that you need in order to get started these are: Chilli Seeds [...]

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Growing Chillis: Introduction

Welcome to the Chilli Up North guide to growing chillis, there will be a number of parts that should cover all aspects of growing chillis. I will add pictures to each stage as i will take them as i start growing my chillis If you have any questions of comments please feel free to add [...]

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Heated Propagator

There are many ways of germinating your chilli seeds but i find that a cheap heated propagator tends to work best. There are loads of different ones on the market ranging from £8 up to £100′s, they come in all different shapes and sizes and with lots of different functions. I tend to prefer the [...]

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Preparing for the chilli growing season

Well i took my first steps in preparing for the new season today by making a list of jobs i need to do between now and the end of the month followed by a trip to B+Q to get some bits and finally sorting out my seed list. Whilst at B+Q  I noticed they had [...]

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