• Chilli Pepper Plants
• Cool Chilli Pepper Plants
• Medium Chilli Pepper Plants
• Hot Chilli Pepper Plants

There was once a time when chillies were considered to be a somewhat 'alien' ingredient, only present in foreign dishes and only included as a party trick - to blow your head off with an intense jolt of heat! Of course, our national tastes have evolved and changed, and world food influences have firmly established themselves as part of our national cuisine. Chilli pepper plants are one such example of those once 'foreign foods' that we couldn't imagine cooking without now!

Despite being native to warmer climes such as the Mediterranean, South America, North Africa and Mexico, chilli peppers will actually grow quite happily in our milder British climate. Our plants are supplied to our customers as compost block-grown specimens that will need planting on into pots, containers or open ground in a sunny, warm and sheltered spot. The warmer the local climate, the better for your chilli pepper plants and the quicker you'll be able to get your chillies onto your plate!

Chilli pepper plants are often treated as annual plants, but did you know that they can actually can be grown as perennials too? If you're planning on keeping your chillies going from one season to the next, we thoroughly recommend keeping the plants as pot-grown specimens, so that they can be brought into a warm, well-ventilated environment once the frosts return in late autumn and early winter.

If you're planning on growing a chilli pepper plant from seed that you've collected from any of our plants, please be aware that they will cross-pollinate very readily so rarely come entirely true to type (but they can be fun all the same!)

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