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Warm up this winter with home-grown chillies
We ’ve get quite the winter warmer for you this month , for both your plot and plate ! prove grow chilli peppers for a sizzle of heat into your winter dishes , with some top confidential information from our Friend at BBC Gardeners ’ World Magazine . What ’s more , put your scrumptious chillies to good use in a budget - friendly naughty sausage gnocchi recipe from Mitch Lane , as seen live at Good Food Show Summer beside BBC Gardeners ’ World Live in 2024 .
Chilli peppers can be sown anytime of year , but you ’ll need a heated propagator and a grow lamp to give them a good beginning .
How to grow
chile need a warm , cheery slur for the safe upshot and the hot chillies . Ideally , produce them in a glasshouse or advance them in skunk on a south - facing patio or windowsill . Chillies need a long time of year to grow , so it ’s best to sow in seed early in moist , peat - free multi - purpose compost , and keep in a het propagator under a get luminance , to prevent seedlings going leggy ( seed seed in March if you do n’t have a heated propagator ) .
Potting out
Pot on into individual pots when the first true leaves look . Keep pot on if growing in muckle or implant out into the greenhouse when nighttime temperatures outmatch 10ºC – ensure the soil or compost is free - draining . Feed every week with a high potash fertiliser once plants have started bloom , and glean chillies as and when they appear .
Care
Once planted out , chillies require very little attention . Pinch out the originate tips when plants are about 20 cm grandiloquent to further shaggy-haired growth . Tall varieties may require staking .
Water your chilly set picayune and often . As soon as the first flowers appear , feed hebdomadally with a high-pitched - potash liquidity fertilizer such as tomato provender .
In hot atmospheric condition , mist chilli plants to increase humidity and deter spider mites .
chili will be ready to blame from recent summertime . For the mildest look , clean chili while they ’re still green , leave them to mature for more heat .
Serves 2 adults & 2 children
Put a saucepan over a intermediate - gamy heating system and tot up the Olea europaea fossil oil . Remove the sausage from their skins . stop the sausagemeat up into little clod and put them into the goat god . Bash the chunks into pocket-size pieces with the back of a wooden spoonful , then wangle for 2 mins until golden brown and semi - crispy .
Add the chilly , onion , Allium sativum and a pinch of salt . Cook for 2 - 3 mins . Add the chopped tomatoes , mix everything together and let it bubble away for 2 - 3 mins .
Meanwhile , put the gnocchi into some salted simmering water and cook until sonant . As soon as they begin to be adrift in the water , they ’re ready .
smooch the gnocchi into the sausage balloon and tomato pan along with a generous ladleful of the cookery pee . lend the parmesan and toss everything together . If you want a looser sauce , tote up a little more cooking weewee .
Plate up and add a crack of dim pepper along with a dusting of grated parmesan .
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