New home for the Chillies

Picked up one of those 4 tier mini greenhouses from town this week for a home for the Cape Gooseberries and Chillies. All set up in the back garden to get plenty of sunshine. With the weather as mild as it is at the moment I have already put my Chilli, Cape's and Tumbling Tom seedlings in there, and they seem to be all doing well. Just need to keep a very close eye on the weather in case we get another cold snap.

The plan is, as the plants grow, to remove the shelves one by one till the "hothouse" is full to bursting with lovely chilliness. The chillies had been planned to grow inside on windowsills but this way they have their own little home.

Chillies, hot hot hot

Just a quick picture of my chilli plants growing away nicely on the windowsill.

The 1st row in the picture are unknown chillies that where sown from seeds collected from chilli fruits I was given last year so I have no idea what they are as I forgot to label the packets correctly when I saved the seeds from the fruits so I'll have to wait and see what becomes of these.

The 2nd row are Cayenne chillies ( Scoville Heat Rating : 30,000-50,000 )

The back row are Prairie Fire chillies, a very compact bush chilli with small fiery chillies that mature from yellow to red. Ideal as a small pot plant as it grows to around 15cm in hight ( Scoville Heat Rating : 70,000  )