So, I learnt a new word yesterday – Oedema. In the three years or so I’ve been growing Chilli plants I’ve never once come across this. It’s a disease that can happen when plants take up more water than they can actually handle and there is a lot of humidity in the air
Chilli Names. Without doubt, one of the most confusing things about growing chillies is the name of them. We seemingly can’t even decide on a name for the fruit itself. Depending on your region, you might call it a Chili, Chile, Chilli or even Pepper.
One of the problems with planting seeds as early as I did this year is that technically it’s not warm enough or light enough to be starting to grow things. I’m lucky in that I’ve good size windowsills that have radiators under them so I generally get away with it. But this year I’ve run […]
As I didn’t have the best of luck growing super hot chillies this year. I needed to some how feed my addiction. But what to do? You can’t just pop to the local Tesco and pick some up whenever you feel like it. Or, well. You kind of can. But that’s not the point. It […]
The Carolina Reaper has been something of an illusive beast for me. I’ve been after trying them for some time now, well, about two years now. When Tesco recently announced that they were going to be stocking them in store I started to pay attention quickly to the news.
As regular readers of this Blog will know I’ve got a chilli plant at work that I overwintered there. It started to give me pods, but they’re unlike any other chilli I know, so, I’ve decided it claim it as my own and I’ve named it the Cheryl chilli.
I’ve seen a lot of horror stories this year about people buying Chilli seeds from eBay and the like, and, not getting quite what they hoped for. It seems to be coming out a lot more now that plants are flowering and getting their first pods.