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❄️🔥 January Heat: Igniting Your Pepper & Chilli Garden 🌱🌶️
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Jan 19, 2025
🔥 January Heat: Igniting Your Pepper & Chilli Garden! It may be cold outside, but it’s the perfect time to bring the heat indoors! ❄️🌶️ We’re starting off the year by sowing chillies and peppers — giving them a long, strong season to grow and thrive. What varieties are you growing this year? Let’s spice up our gardens together! #ChilliGrowing #PepperSeeds #JanuarySowing #GrowYourOwn #HotHarvest #AllotmentLife #UKGardener
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Journey hey everyone and welcome back to
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episode it's Wednesday already time is
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hopefully we can actually get out in the
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Gardens get out in them allotments get
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some fresh air and enjoy being back in
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the garden or allotment again I know how
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to down at the allotment this week well
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as we're talking about all about sewing
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your onion seeds rather than sets and
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hope you're enjoying these
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about another seed that you can sew now
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which is perfect for sewing now really
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as
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onions obviously need that head and the
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other one is peppers and chilies now
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usually on the seed packet you'll see
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like so around February March time but
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that's usually where it's a bit hotter
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so I grew peppers last year and I sold
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them in March and it was to late they
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were only Just frued Around September
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time and they didn't come to much they
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didn't get big enough to be able to
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harvest them or do anything with them so
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starting them off now gets them growing
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faster and hopefully fruit in a lot
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quicker than they did before so
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hopefully we'll get some good results
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this year and there's many varieties of
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peppers out there you'll obviously get
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your big Supermarket type Peppers your
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red yellow orange green peppers and
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you'll also get like smaller varieties
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of pepper capsicum I think they're
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called and obviously you'll get chilies
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as well chilies are pretty easier to
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grow because obviously you don't need to
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grow them to the big size of peppers
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they just grow to the little size of
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chilies and usually you get a lot more
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growing on the plant at the same
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time so we're going to be trying to grow
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a variety of both of them this year as
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I've not done chilies for quite a long
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time possibly about 10 years so we're
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going to give chilies to try again this
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year and try some not too spicy I'm not
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a spicy person but I'm going to try some
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uh chilies see if we can get some
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growing and like I said now that I'm in
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a new flat I can actually cook in it and
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yeah I can actually give experimen in
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trying to grow different stuff so I'm
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going to try growing some chilies again
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this year and we're going to grow some
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peppers we're going to grow the standard
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type variety and possibly the smaller
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varieties capsicum ones uh we'll see how
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we get on with both of them so if you're
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selling them now um obviously one way of
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doing it is actually going to the
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supermarket and buying the variety that
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you want to grow as it's full of seeds
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and it'll be cheaper than buying a
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packet of seeds trust
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me you'll get absolutely hundreds of
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seeds inside of pepper uh so sometimes
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it's cheaper to buy the actual produce
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and get the seeds out of
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them
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and have a look scrape them out and dry
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them out and once they dried out then
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you can sew them and they're pretty easy
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to sew usually I'll put a few in a um
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plant pot and pick out a few some of the
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strongest ones and then putt them on and
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etc etc but the thing is with growing
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peppers obviously you've got to remember
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they are a hot country fruit and
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they usually grown in like Spain Brazil
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places like that so it needs hot weather
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so you can't necessarily like grow them
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outside um if you get a lot of hot
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weather maybe but you need to think
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about growing them either in a poly
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tunnel in a greenhouse in one of these
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uh makeshift green houses what are made
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out of plastic uh but obviously make
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sure that the greenhouse is fasten down
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well because they do Blow Away EAS so
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or in a conservatory but if you're
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growing them in a conservatory you've
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got to remember that they won't get
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pollinated uh because obviously you
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won't be getting bees in there you won't
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be getting flies in there hopefully uh
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so they won't be getting pollinated as
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easy so you may have to help them with
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the pollination by getting a paint brush
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and pollinating each flower and stuff
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like that so if you're wanted to grow
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them indoors possibly pollinate them
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yourself but if you've got an ideal
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place like a greenhouse or polyol to
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grow them in you could get some great
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crops from them and obviously we've got
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our polyon so I want to make use of the
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polyol a bit more this year and
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hopefully grow some peppers in there and
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hopefully grow some watermelons and
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other melons in there as well we're
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going to give them a little try this
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year so like I said if you wanted to
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grow some peppers go to the supermarket
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buy the pepper that you want to grow uh
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scrape out all the seeds dry them out
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put them on like some kitchen roll or
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something let them dry for a week and
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then sew them into some soil and
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obviously like I said a few in each pot
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cover them back with soil water them and
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then cover them over with cing film as
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that will work as
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a greenhouse it will keep them moist
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it'll keep them warmer Peppers need
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about 25° to germinate so there's no
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points toing them in a greenhouse hoping
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that they'll germinate
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because they won't that's why I started
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them off in March previously CU I didn't
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have a window to cell in my old flat but
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now I've got a wind toell at this one so
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I brought them home it's obviously nice
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and warm and toasty in my flat so they
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need about 25 degrees to germinate so
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once You' got them to germinate grow
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them to a decent size then you can put
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them into individual pots grow them on
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and then possibly around March time
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April time take them back down to
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yourman or into the green Greenhouse it
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won't have to be heated and continue
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growing
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them and then obviously when it gets to
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like June time you can actually grow
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them in the poly tunnels and stuff like
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that they won't need to be heated cuz
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they'll have plenty of warm temperature
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fingers cross we didn't get much of a
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summer last year hopefully we'll get a
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good one this year uh fingers cross we
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certainly need one as we certainly
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didn't have a very good summer at all
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possibly one of the reasons why the
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peppers didn't do very well at all
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so they're pretty easy to grow and like
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I said if you want to get good produce
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from them um and if you are struggling
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with bees and insects around just
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pollinate them yourself even if there is
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pollinators around and you possibly may
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get more produce by doing that and
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obviously the more you keep picking them
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the more they'll keep producing
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especially with chilies keep picking
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them off and you'll get more and more
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growing on them throughout the season
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and they could be in up till October if
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we have decent weather so they're very
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they'll produce absolutely Lads chilies
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so it's well worth growing a couple of
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plants uh by saying a couple is don't
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grow growing like six because you'll be
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inundated trust me when I first grew
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them previously I I had about eight
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plants cuz I didn't know what I were
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doing and getting bags full and bags
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full off every single week and wow they
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I couldn't get rid of them
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[Laughter]
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but yeah uh we'll be growing a few
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plants down there knowing me I'll still
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plant all the seeds and uh probably get
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hundreds of plants growing at the same
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time but yeah we're going to give them a
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try this year growing some peppers and
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some chilies so like I said in
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yesterday's episode um obviously you can
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start onions now and you can start
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peppers now if you are starting them off
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on a Windle make sure they don't get
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laggy make sure they get enough sunlight
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keep turning them around and
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keep them watered obviously you don't
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want to be growing them somewhere where
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they'll stretch and grow Ley and they'll
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not be any good and then you have to
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start M seeds off and start from scratch
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again so yeah if you want to try
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something get some peppers and chilies
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growing on a window salt and let me know
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how you get on let me know if you're
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going to be growing some peppers and
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chilies in your garden this year like I
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said pretty easy to grow and peppers
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aren't that easy but chilies usually are
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easy
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so I hope you've enjoyed today's episode
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