Growing Chilli Peppers in Your Spanish Garden

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Chilli Pepper - Pimiento Picante

An easy and attractive plant to grow - very similar to sweet peppers but small plants and smaller fruit.


As with sweet peppers, you can buy plants or grow your own from seed, sown under polythene to establish them earlier. Plant out when the young chili plants have 6 good leaves, when the weather is warming up. Each plant can grow into a bush 1m high and produce a large number of peppers.
Chili Peppers are easier to dry in the sun than sweet peppers due to being smaller and the dried results look attractive hanging in the kitchen. Simply hang bunches of chili in full sun. Make sure that when you harvest the chili, you cut them of with a couple of cm of stalk. Then starting with upto 2m of string, tie a not round each chili stalk, keeping them as close together as possible, to produce an attractive bunch.
The dried chili are also very practical as the dried fruit is easy to use for spicing up a curry or a Chili con Carne.