We have sweet salad peppers, mild chilli peppers and hot chilli peppers that go all the way through to searing, world record holding, hot and rare chilli peppers.

Sweet peppers are a stress-free win in the garden, undemanding, easy to get started, easy to grow and a delight to harvest and consume.  

Chilli peppers are a little more tricky and require a little more effort and planning. As a general rule, the hotter the pepper, the harder they are to germinate and the fruit produces less seed. Most mild and hot peppers will germinate well at 65°F. The hotter and rarer chilli peppers will need a temperature of over 75°F to germinate. Heating pads are often required to effectively germinate these heat loving seeds. Germination can take up to 3 weeks, even with heating pads.  If not using heating pads, chilli peppers are best planted in late spring, once temperatures increase. A long season crop that should be started indoors 6-8 weeks before last frosts, to ensure an optimum outdoor growing season on transplant.

An equal proportional mix of sifted compost, vermiculite and river sand is a superb germination mix. Transplant to a warm full sun area once they are past the two true leaf stage and all danger of frost has passed.

• Hot Peppers
• Mild Peppers
• Super Hots
• Sweet Peppers