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Warm up this winter with home-grown chillies
We ’ve got quite the winter warm for you this calendar month , for both your plot of ground and photographic plate ! Try rise chilli pepper for a sizzle of heat into your wintertime dishes , with some top tips from our friends at BBC Gardeners ’ World Magazine . What ’s more , put your yummy chillies to good exercise in a formula from Ching - He - Huang , as seen on the Summer Kitchen at the BBC Good Food Show Summer 2023 .
Chilli capsicum pepper plant can be sow anytime of year , but you ’ll need a heated propagator and a grow lamp to give them a good start .
How to grow
Chillies need a strong , sunny spot for the best results and the hottest chillies . Ideally , grow them in a greenhouse or upraise them in potbelly on a south - facing patio or windowsill . chilly ask a long season to grow , so it ’s good to sow in seed ahead of time in moist , peat - free multi - purpose compost , and keep in a heated propagator under a growing lighting , to forbid seedling going leggy ( sow seed in March if you do n’t have a heated propagator ) .
Potting out
corporation on into individual kitty when the first true leaves appear . Keep pot on if growing in pots or plant out into the greenhouse when night temperatures exceed 10ºC – assure the soil or compost is devoid - draining . Feed weekly with a gamy potash fertilizer once works have started flowering , and reap chillies as and when they appear .
Care
Once planted out , chillies require very little attention . Pinch out the mature confidential information when flora are about 20 cm tall to encourage bushy growth . Tall varieties may want staking .
Water your chilli plants little and often . As before long as the first flowers appear , feed weekly with a high - caustic potash liquid fertiliser such as tomato plant feed .
In red-hot weather , mist chilli plant to increase humidness and deter spider pinch .
chile will be ready to blame from former summer . For the mildest flavour , pick chillies while they ’re still gullible , leave them to mature for more heat .
Serves 2
new king cornet mushroom , wok - fried in tamari , sweet chilli and sriracha , then served with chickpea plant , sweetcorn and carrots in a hollowed - out Ananas comosus . Serve with chiu chow chilli oil for a spicy kick .
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