Growing Chillies

Chillies Blog - Chilli RootsGrowing Chillies at Home.

• Find a sunny spot in your vegetable patch or your home herb garden.

• Clear the bed of all grass roots and stones.

• Choose a luscious looking chilli plant from your local nursery.

• Dig a hole a little deeper than the pot the chilli plant is in. And slightly wider.

• Add a few small small drainage stones.

• Put a light sprinkling of compost at the bottom of the hole.

• Squeeze the chilli plant pot slightly to loosen the sand inside the pot.

• Remove the chilli plant from the pot and place into the prepared hole.Chillies Blog - Chilli Bud

• Cover with sand and pat the soil lightly around the chilli plant for growth stability.

• Water your chilli plant every third or fourth day.

That’s how easy it is. Now you know how to grow chillies.

24 Comments Add yours

  1. Erika Sloman says:

    Going to plant chili in my garden this year.

    1. Chilies Blog says:

      That’s great to hear Erika. Just do one or two chilli bushes. Don’t do too many to start off with.

  2. ragnarsbhut says:

    Erika Sloman and Chilies Blog, what are the hottest peppers and/or sauces you have used?

    1. Hi Ragnars. Scotch Bonnets (250,000 – 300,000SHU). We also use quite a few African Bird’s Eye chillies at around (200,000SHU). And then of course, plenty Habaneros (250 – 350,000SHU). Sometimes we also mix them. Which chilli do you use?

      1. ragnarsbhut says:

        I use a wide variety. Cannot name them all.

      2. The team at Chillies Blog also use a wide variety – but we go for more flavour than melting your palate and numbing your lips.

      3. ragnarsbhut says:

        Some people seem to believe that the more heat, the better the flavor. What are your views? If you’d like, tell any and all people that you know about this blog.

      4. Any idiot can put hot stuff in a pot and boil it up to make your palate shiver and your lips quiver. Duh! Maybe time for you to move on.

  3. ragnarsbhut says:

    Personally, I tend to be diverse in what I use. Having said that, I crave the super hot hot stuff.

    1. Super and two hots after that! Then what you’re looking for are a few Carolina Reapers.

  4. Done. Wham bam chilli jam we now think you r just playing spam blam. Hot sauces rock – don’t play the fool, tool.

    1. ragnarsbhut says:

      I love a good hot sauce. What is the hottest sauce you have tasted?

      1. A Black Mamba Habanero Chilli Sauce.

      2. ragnarsbhut says:

        The Black Mamba or Black Mamba 6?

      3. ragnarsbhut says:

        Based on their names alone, both sound pretty spicy.

  5. ragnarsbhut says:

    Chillies Blog, in my experience, one of the hottest sauces I have tasted was Mongoose by Cajohns. That is spicy.

    1. Never had that. Will try and see if we can get some.

  6. ragnarsbhut says:

    If you can handle extreme spice, that does not disappoint.

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