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This video shows how to grow peppers and chillies from seed indoors, including sowing seeds, germination temperature, watering and providing enough light for healthy seedlings. It explains the early growing stages so young plants develop strong roots and steady growth.
Learn when to start pepper seeds, how warm conditions affect germination and how to care for seedlings before transplanting. The guide also covers spacing, potting on and preventing common problems such as slow growth or weak plants.
If you want to successfully grow chilli or sweet pepper plants at home, these simple indoor seed-starting methods will help you produce healthy plants ready for the growing season.
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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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different things to sew when to sew them
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hope you're enjoying these
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podcasts well today we're going to talk
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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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