Getting Started with Chilli Growing

Why grow your own?

There's something honest about growing your own chillies. You control everything — the variety, the soil, the feed, the harvest timing. And once you've tasted a sun-ripened pod from your own bay window, the supermarket version tastes like a polite suggestion.

The S.P.I.C.E. Method

My approach to growing breaks down into five steps that map to the letters S, P, I, C, E. Each one is a chapter on its own, but here is the headline version.

Picking your first three varieties

A classic starter line-up looks like this:

If any of those slugs do not match what is in your variety database, the cards will quietly hide rather than crash the page.