Easy to grow chilli plants in England?

Got a good few turning red now, so the slow cooker will get dug out this week and I am going to slow cook some chuck steak with onion, garlic, chopped tomatoes, a few fresh chillies and some paprika - - I reckon it will be scrummy

 

Thought I would add a couple of pics, as I was passing the chillies with my phone in hand:

 

Got to agree with you about the flavour Freddy - I've noticed that the homegrown ones add a far better flavour to dishes, and somehow that improved flavour seems to make the heat less of an issue.

My plants are having a second flourish, yet I have as many chillies as I can handle for a year in the freezer, so I've been giving them in to the canteen at work; not only has the improvement in flavour been mentioned by a few others at work, but I've also had the odd free lunch out of the deal

 

The people that sell Apache plants classify them as HOT. They're rarely listed on Scoville scales so I'm not sure how hot that is. I would consider that they are more likely to be medium hot if you put two of them in a chilli meal.

Unless you're used to really hot chillies it's unlikely that they would be any hotter than medium. If you used two of some of the chillis I grow you may not be able to eat a meal with two of them in.

 

Most chillies tend to get a bit hotter as they ripen and the heat of chillies on any one plant can vary - but don't usually vary by much.

 

As most of you know, we only grow very hot chillies unless we're doing trials. I took a few shots in the greenhouse yesterday before doing a bit of tidying up so these won't look too good.

These are the new Vipers we're trialling (should have wiped them over before taking the photo ) . They're very black but with not the slightest heat!




These are a couple of three year olds that we didn't overwinter indoors last year but survived fairly well in the propagator in the greenhouse - although they didn't look too happy in the spring. These are some of our very hot chillies (don't know the name) and are the offspring of our plants that we kept for five years. We don't isolate our plants so they could be very promiscuous. These seem not quite as hot as the originals and each fruit grows a bit bigger than the originals.







These are a few babies that we've started off from their last year's seeds. Most of our friends that we give seeds to either don't seem to get them to grow or find they die off. They usually take almost a full season to get established properly.

 

Just started our winter pruning and reducing the plants down to about 2ft.



Looks almost as though we could use this at Christmas instead of Mistletoe!