Kitchen Garden Forum

It's worth leaving your plants outside overnight subject to there not being a frost. It works for me.
Allan

I hadn't realised you could grow peppers outside. Are there any varieties anyone would recommend for outdoor growing or are they all suitable. I'm particularly interested in sweet ones at the moment as I have plenty of chillis left from last year's greenhouse crop.
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Granny

Granny, this is rather diverting from the whitefly threat but I've grown peppers outside for years on a patio which attracts the sun until around 2 p.m. and even in average summers the crop has never failed me. I've tried growing them direct in the soil with less successful results. We are in Bucks and you are not terribly far north of us. I have grown various varieties and this year am trying Marconi Rosso (from last year's saved seed) and Reubens so I think it's worth trying any of them. I grow them in 8" pots using Growbag compost, mixing in a little composted stable manure and a teaspoon of water retaining crystals as they don't like to dry out. I also grow Hungarian Wax chillis outdoors equally sucessfully with the same method.

I grew two different varieties of chillies last year Laos and Devil's Penis Not difficult to tell why it got that name!!.

I dried quite a few , gave a few away, and made the delicious chilly jam which Im still using now. This years have just popped their heads through.

Happy days

What I'd like to know is where the devil the "Chilli King" has got to?

Thanks for the suggestions Primrose and BP. I'll try outdoor growing this year.
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Granny