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Growing Peppers Podcast | Tips for Growing Chillies & Peppers in the UK
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Nov 13, 2024
🎧 Growing Peppers – Gardening and Allotment Podcast! From sweet to spicy, peppers are a rewarding crop — and I’m sharing all my tips to help you grow them successfully! 🌱🔥 In this episode, I talk about the best varieties to grow in the UK, how to start your pepper plants from seed, when to pot on, and top tips for getting great yields both indoors and out. Are you growing chillies or bell peppers this year? #GrowingPeppers #AllotmentPodcast #GardeningPodcast #GrowYourOwn #ChilliPlants #PepperGrowingTips #AllotmentLife #UKGardener
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on this absolutely shocking day it's
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absolutely terrible weather here in
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Sheffield today and thankfully I'm on
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night shift so it doesn't affect me so
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I'm not wasting any time missing the
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allotment but like I was talking
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yesterday obviously when it's weather
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like this it's great weather to be
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spending in your shed in your poly
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tunnel in your Greenhouse still getting
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work done there's still plenty that you
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can do in bad weather like this it's
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also windy as well so make sure that
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anything light like these light green
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houses what made of
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plastic make sure they fastened down
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well and secured because you do not want
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to lose them I've seen so many photos
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about today we're going to talk about
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growing peppers yes Peppers that is and
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peppers are something that take quite a
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lot of effort to grow and you need to be
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starting to think think about growing
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them now if you wanted to be growing
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peppers but the only issue is with
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growing peppers is that they require
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heat to get the seeds to germinate
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because without the heat the seeds won't
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germinate so you won't get that heat on
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the allotment or in the greenhouse at
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the moment because it's too cold so you
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need to be either using a
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propagator or putting them on a windel
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and getting them growing but the only
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thing you've got to watch out for is do
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not let them get too laggy or they'll
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just not be worth it um you possibly can
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start them off in March but the earlier
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you can start them off the better in my
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opinion and it goes for all Peppers
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Chili Peppers or sweet peppers it's all
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the same when growing them and obviously
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if you start them off now you you got a
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better chance of getting more fruit from
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the plants themselves as well because
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there will be flowering earlier and you
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will get a longer season with them
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that's the same going for tomatoes and
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cucumbers the earlier you start them off
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the longer the season you have of
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growing them and getting more produce
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from them because they will keep
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fruiting up until end of September
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beginning of October depending on what
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the temperatures like and the weather
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but obviously mostly if you're starting
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them off a month earlier you'll probably
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get a chance of having a month extra of
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crops so a thing is when you're growing
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peppers you can either go to the
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supermark uh go to the supermarket and
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bu the seeds or if there is a particular
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variety that you like and you enjoy from
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the supermarket you can grow them from
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the seed of the
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fruit that you buy from the supermarket
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for instance if there is a delicious
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yellow pepper that you enjoy buying from
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the supermarket on a regular basis for
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your salads
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Etc when you're scraping out all them
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seeds save them and dry them out you can
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get some kitchen roll and you scrape all
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the seeds out into a
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m damp them all off and clean all the
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mck off them and let them dry out on a
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tissue and all the gunk and everything
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will uh dry out into the tissue and you
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will be left with the seeds and then you
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can scrape them off and put them into an
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envelope and save them for when you want
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to sew them or when they're ready to sew
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you can sew them straight away so a lot
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of people do this because if you're
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buying a packet of pepper seeds it could
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cost you 2 and you'll only get about 25
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seeds at least where whereas if you're
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buying a pepper from the supermarket you
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could buy three for a pound and you will
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get absolutely thousands of seats in it
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so you're saving money by doing it this
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method uh and there's no reason why you
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can't do it uh there's no specifics on
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why you can't do this but um there's a
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lot of people that do that because it's
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cheaper than buying the
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seeds so I'm going to be doing that for
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quite a few of my uh vegetables this
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year I'm possibly going to be doing it
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for my melons and maybe even the
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tomatoes and I've
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seen people even just cut the tomato in
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half and shove it in some soil and it
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grows it's unbelievable it actually
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grows um so yeah there's if you find a
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favorite
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item in the
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supermarket that is what you should do
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is just save the seeds from them and
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grow them yourself and it's fun it's
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exciting you can uh obviously say oh I
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grew that from that pepper that I bought
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at Tesco or Asda something like that so
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yeah if there's a certain variety that
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you like and enjoy you can grow the
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seeds from it and if you've got children
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they will absolutely love doing this
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because they'll love scraping out all
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the pepper seeds leaving them to dry and
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then you can get involved with your
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child in planting these and getting them
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done so yeah and obviously if you're
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wanting to grow peppers you need to look
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at growing them somewhere warm and
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ideally a poly tunnel or a
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greenhouse and if you've got a
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conservatory you could grow them in a
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conservatory and get produce from them
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but the thing is with peppers is that
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you've got to make sure that they've got
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the pollinators around them to
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get the produce on them um if you're
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grow them in a conservatory you won't
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get no pollinators in there because you
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won't want bees or wasps flying around
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inside your Conservatory throughout the
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summer will you so you need to help
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pollinate them yourself by using I often
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use a paint brush and go around and
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pollinate all the flowers myself and
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then you've got a better chance of
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getting more fruit from your pepper
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plant that's my little tip for you and
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obviously if you've got them in a poly
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tunnel or in a greenhouse you'll be
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leaving the door open in the daytime to
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let the air through and it will help the
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pollinators get in there and get the
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producing the fruit that they need but
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even still when I've got my polyol on my
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Greenhouse I'll still go around
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pollinating those flowers on the plant
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because I want to get the best crop that
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I can and that goes the same for
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tomatoes as well you can go around
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pollinating all the flowers on it and
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helping to to pollinate and get a better
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crop from them sometimes obviously the
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bees won't go around pollinating all the
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flowers on the plant so you need to if
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you can and you've got the spread time
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why not do it yourself and do the job
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that's needed to get the produce for
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them and that is why I always always
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encourage to get bees coming down onto
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your alotment into into the garden
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because if the bees don't come down into
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your garden they won't find the uh
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flowers on the peppers to pollinate so
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the more we can encourage bees in the
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garden the better produce you will get
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from your plants I cannot stress that
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enough the more we can do for the bees
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the bees will help us out more so if
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you've got an allotment and you're not
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growing flowers on it have a look at
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growing some flowers that are for bees
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especially and you will get more produce
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from your plants and I had so much
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fantastic produce from my fruit trees
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last year it is
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unbelievable so that is all the tips on
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growing peppers today so I hope you've
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