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Growing Chillis Part 3: Potting on/Transplanting

March 15, 2009Chilli Growing Standard

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 […]

Chillis 2009 are go go go

March 1, 2009Chilli diary, Chilli Growing Standard

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 […]

Trellis tepee

February 15, 2009Chilli Growing Equipment and Supplies Standard

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 […]

Wilkinsons

January 25, 2009Chilli Growing Equipment and Supplies, Other Vegetables Standard

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. […]

Growing Chillis Part 2: Germination

January 22, 2009Chilli Growing Standard

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 […]

Growing Chillis Part 1: Getting Started

January 22, 2009Chilli Growing Standard

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 […]

Growing Chillis: Introduction

January 21, 2009Chilli Growing Standard

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 […]

Heated Propagator

January 18, 2009Bottom of the garden, Chilli Growing, Chilli Growing Equipment and Supplies Standard

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 […]

Preparing for the chilli growing season

January 18, 2009Chilli Growing Standard

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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