~ Some special HOT PEPPER
Seed (Chilli or Chile Peppers) ~
We
have tried huge numbers of early hot peppers, and here offer the best.
Peppers for every taste, in many different colours and shapes! Again,
many are very early to help with short British summers, and some are
of more unusual species such as Capsicum pubescens and Capsicum baccatum.
Some are called 'Aji' - a generic term in S. America for the baccatum
species: they have thin wrinkled walls, and although they can be very
hot, the heat is somehow gentler compared to common chillies.
And in our experience, although a bit later, Aji plants seem to be
a bit more robust & tolerant of cool weather than other chilli peppers.
If you have problems with downy mildew on your peppers, in our experience
they are completely immune!
Please order your seeds in time. You really need
to plant them by the start of March at the very latest to have any chance of a decent crop.
TIP: An electric propagator is ideal for starting chilli seed,but if
you don't have one, you can still get excellent results by improvising
with a warm airing cupboard, a radiator shelf or anywhere that is around
28-38C for at least a few hours in each day. Once germinated, the seedlings
will grow on at lower temperatures. We grew some excellent plants this
spring when our propagator was full by starting seed on the counter
next to our Rayburn & then growing on in a sunny windowsill.
'Gelbe Kirschen' (Yellow Cherries)
This is a rare and beautiful variety from Kosovo, which not only produces huge numbers of very hot round yellow chillis, but also looks great in a pot as a decorative plant too.
We use it to make a very hot bright yellow chilli relish sauce.
Order HPGK - 20 seed £1.49
Early
Green Jalapeño
Finally, a jalapeño pepper that will mature in the UK! We were
really excited to discover this extra-early strain to grow in your greenhouse
or polytunnel.
Jalapeño peppers are fleshy with distinctive blunt-tipped, cigar
shaped fruit with the traditional 'jalapeño' corky marks on the
skin.
Easy to grow, and quite hot, too. Mmmm!
Early variety - traditional shape, just really quick.
Order HPEJ - 20 seed £1.39
Yellow Ají Aji are a slightly different species of chilli pepper, with small green dots on the inside of the flower petals and a distinct fruity flavour. They make huge bushes about 3 feet across, covered with hundreds of large, long, dangly, wrinkled peppers.
These are mild when green - and stay green for a long time, so we offer it as a prolific, crunchy, and mild chilli pepper.
But it does eventually go yellowy-orange, and becomes very hot at that point, so you can have them as a hot pepper if you prefer.
If the plants are happy you'll get a huge crop and we include a very nice chutney recipe to use up the surplus.
Mild green / hot yellow
Order HPYA - 20 seed £1.65
'Rote Keile'
Another very attractive cherry chilli bush to about 3 feet tall, this time from the former Yugoslavia.
We were impressed by the productivity of these - the bushes have hundreds of small slightly ovoid green chillis, which soon turn a rather fetching shade of orange, and then ripen to a glowing red.
The picture was taken before most of them ripened, a few weeks later the plant was much brighter to look at.
And a word of warning - as well as being very productive, it's really quite hot!
Order HPRK - 20 seed [OG1] £1.65
'Long Rote Keile'
From the original Rote Keile seed, we found a couple plants that were a different type. This is often the case with these older landraces, a sign of their historic diversity. We rather liked these as well, so we are offering them here.
This is the first new one - a very pointy red version of the Rote Keile pepper, again both early and incredibly productive on tall bushes about 3ft high. The chillis are about an inch long and pointed like a fang.
Only a very few packets available this year.
Order HPLK - 25 seed [OG1] £1.65
'Orange Keile'
Here is another pleasing selection we made from the original Rote Keile landrace.
As you can see, the slightly more oval fruit mature to bright orange instead of red. They are still very hot, and you do still get silly numbers of fruit on each plant.
Only a very few packets available this year.
All gone!
'Westlandse Lange Rode'
This is a traditional big long red chilli from The Netherlands. It has been grown in Europe for a long time, and this particular strain has been selected and improved for northern conditions by Harry & Chris Bauwers for the past thirty years. We are really happy to be able to offer it again after a gap of a year.
The fruit are about half an inch across, and quite long - up to 6 inches or so. It does very well even in our less-than-sunny summers and is quite popular - it is worth trying outdoors if you have a nice sunny spot, even in Holland.
Medium to "really-quite-hot".
Order HPWL - 20 seed [CO1] £1.75
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