chilli peppers

Hi everyone, I'm a newbie here. I have bought myself a greenhouse so this is my first year. I have cucumbers, tomatoes, carrots, onions, but don't know what size they should be before planting them on.
Also sowed some chilli peppers 3 weeks ago, still not a peep. WHY?????????????

 

Don't worry about the chillis Gloria - mine took ages to germinate, in fact I sowed a second lot as I thought they had failed.
Unless your greenhouse is heated it's rather early to think about planting your toms and cucs.
If you are going to grow your carrots on in the greenhouse you can put them in now, but if they are for outside I'd let them grow on a bit as it's still a bit cold for young tender plants.

 

Hello Gloria. Hope you have a good gardening year. Not too sure about what question you are asking. Dave is right about the chillies - some of them can take ages to germinate, although some come quite quickly. My Jalapeno and Hungarian Hot Wax came up in a few days. What kind are you growing. They will be better on a sunny windowsill just now.
Your tomatoes and cuc's can't go in the greenhouse until danger of frost is past sometime in May unless you have it heated, but they should be allright in quite small pots on the windowsill until then. I haven't planted mine yet, but any day now as soon as we get passed this spell of cold weather.
As for your carrots, are you growing them in the ground or in containers. If in the ground it's maybe just a bit early and carrots are best sown where they are to grow. If you want to grow some in containers they do well in deep pots (long toms). I take the time to sow them 1" apart each way so no thinning required and just empty out a whole pot at a time. They're quite hardy. I've had some in the greenhouse since Jan and they're well into carrot leaves now. If you sow some now, keep them indoors until germinated and put the pots in the greenhouse they'll be fine. Mixed salad leaves sown in pots now and placed in the greenhouse will also be fine. Hope this is of some help. Oh, and the peppers I planted in Jan on the windowsill are into flower.

 

Hi Gloria

I alway start my Toms, cucumbers, Aubergines and Chillies in the boiler cupboard, then once they have germinated, on a windowsill as my greenhouse is unheated and too cold at night at the mo. Chillies in particular for me won't peep through until they have at least a week in the warmth.....

 

Hi Gloria,

Although I like Chillies, I'd never thought to grow them, but I was at a local community show last June and there was a stall run by the local council where kids were shown how to sow a single Chillie seed in a small plant pot which they could take home. I quickly encouraged my 11 year old son to have a go even though he wasn't really that interested and we took it home and left it on the kitchen windowsill. After a few days it germinated and grew into a strong small plant within a couple of weeks. Not long after that it flowered and then small green chillies appeared. I potted it on into a 5" pot and supported it with a short cane and continued to feed and water it. By the autumn, I had taken about six nice plump chillies off it and left one on the plant to go to seed. I am going to do exactly the same with the seed this year and hopefully I will have several chillie plants growing away nicely in pots on my kitchen windowsill by mid June and I'll hopefully have plenty more to grow in my conservatory as there's lots of seed from one ripe chillie.

 

Hi I grew chillies for the first time last year - great crop right up to end of November. A little tip i was given ... make sure the soil is fairly "poor", if necesary (as i did) add some sand which i bought from the garden centre. If the soil is too rich, you end up with lots of foliage and few peppers. Good Luck!!

 

I am growing chilis for the first time this year. I've started them off in a heated propagator with the melons as according to the packets they need quite a high temperature to germinate [about 80degrees]. I used ordinary fine compost, kept it moist, and 10 days later they're all up.
If you haven't got them in a propagator, try stretching cling film over the top of the seed trays, this might give them that extra bit of warmth.
Good luck

 

...... and my Dorset Naga has just sprouted its first leaf, so it survived the winter !!!!
Here's to some lava-hot salsas!!!!! :eek: :eek: