Before I started gardening, I was watching Charles videos and I was thinking : Wow he's pretty good. Today, I realize I was wrong ... he's not pretty good, he's a freaking artist.
Always love your videos! As a longtime subscriber, I feel like I am watching a friend. You are a world renowned expert, but your manner is so humble and approachable you make everyone feel comfortable. As an older gardener, who grew up on a farm, some of the newer YT gardeners come across condescending, but I try to give them the benefit of the doubt.😀 You have the experience and expertise, but never come across as condescending and I appreciate you very much. Hope you are having a wonderful week. Thank you!
Have you ever tried overwintering chilies? I live in a much warmer climate and still struggle to grow peppers. Often my plants are quite small still by first frost, having given me maybe only a handful of fruits. In these cases, I have dug up the plants and put them in pots, pruned them back and stuck them under my grow lights indoors over the winter. When they are replanted the next spring, they produce bumper crops of peppers in early summer, way before any peppers I've sown that year. It's definitely worth a try if you have the space indoors to baby them. It's also worth noting that I don't remove any of their leaves throughout their first season, so they still have buds in the leaf axils that can sprout after pruning them back. I've heard of pinching pepper plants as well to make them bushier, which may be ideal for creating a shorter plant to overwinter. I plan to give that a go this season.
Great tips, thank you. I should've mentioned it, that I overwinter chilli plants but did not have any at the time we made the video. It works well as you describe
@@CharlesDowding1nodigI have no grow lights or heatmats, can I learn from you which are the the best to purchase and which maybe a better way /bestway to achieve growth that do not include getting greater electric bills, the need for such in winter is outwaying it's worth it seems!
I'm overwintering my capsicums this winter in London. I will wake them up next month. I've found that picking on ripe fruit when it's a good size and letting them ripen in a sunny window works really well.@CharlesDowding1nodig
I grew peppers in the coastal PNW last year for the first time and didn't have a greenhouse. I only got one or two red ones by the time the frosts returned, but my husband and I strung up all the green peppers we harvested to dry inside (hot wax, poblano and bell) and to our surprise they almost all turned red in a month or two! We use them in all kinds of things. They're worth growing for us!
I have lived in the coastal Pacific Northwest for 2.5 decades and I also don’t have a greenhouse or tunnel, or anything like that. I say you did GREAT to get any that turned red! I don’t know that I have had a single one in all these years get fully ripe on the plant. But I keep trying. 😀
What great feedback, thanks for sharing your success. I'm impressed that they ripened rather thanrotted, guess that you have lovely dry air in your house
@@CharlesDowding1nodig we did see one of them starting to grow fur after maybe two months 😆 At that point we had to pull down the rest of them and finish drying them in the dehydrator. We do have a lot of humidity here so we keep them stored in jars now
CHARLES, To support my pepper plants, for the past couple of years I have been using the inexpensive (not good for tomato) 4-5 foot tomato cages. They work great for p[eppers. Ray Delbury Sussex County NJ USA
With peppers, I find that picking the early flowers off helps the plant to grow bigger, and then when you finally let the plant fruit, the plant is much stronger and can give you better yield.
Thanks that is so true. I did say it in the recording, but it got edited out! We ended up with too much footage and had to reduce quite a lot, it’s one frustration with a long video-timing like this.
Long time subscriber, I’m on the other end of the spectrum, growing cool season crops in Arkansas ( the last few years, formerly Utah) in the winter, in my greenhouse. 14x28. It got close to zero but with my ten black water barrels, and a very small heater. Nothing froze all winter and, I was amazed the difference the water barrels made, and it was my first time using water barrels at 20 years. Greenhouses are amazing. Thanks for all your knowledge, sir Charles.
Always worth trying a few such plants. Some years you'll get a huge harvest, and other years will be meager. All depends on how quick of a spring, warm of a summer, and long of a fall you end up with.
Greetings, Charles, from Windermere, Florida zone 9b USA Thanks for sharing your beautiful garden and special knowledge. The day started out at 52°F at 5a.m and warmed up to the low 70's 🌞 Take care and Spring is just around the corner ❤Peggy❤
In 2022, my chillis did incredibly well…and last year, they did incredibly badly! Just shows that in marginal climates like here in the UK, can't always expect everything to grow as you'd like it. Hoping this summer is a little warmer 🙂
A little tip for those having issues with watering (like I do) and or are new like me, try keeping a pot of just the mix with ur potted plants and keep it dry. This will give you a decent idea of how dry a pot is when compared. Works very well for seedlings and young plants. After a while ull be able to gauge the weight alot better.
Every time I watch you meander through your garden, and speak of the plants you're growing, I'm reminded of Roger Swain, who hosted "The Victory Garden" here in the US from the mid 1980's to early 2000's. You are doing for gardening and growing today through this platform what he did then on television, bringing to light the joy of growing food and spending time in the garden. I surely do appreciate the effort you spend bringing these videos to the world.
😂 so glad to see this video thank you Charles for sharing! I have been working out how to grow pepper's in SW Scotland at 270m above sea level for about 3 year's now. It is possible but it is difficult and I love the challenge.
I’m in Sweden around the Stockholm region, I can grow chilli peppers with great harvests just out in the open without a greenhouse. The key to getting a big harvest is starting the seeds early. I normally start them indoors, with grow lights, in January. Maybe even December for some of the slow growing capsicum Chinense verities. February still works. Early March is stating to be on the late side, will get a okay harvest but probably not multiple or especially big one. In in regard to having a plant with long weak branches, the key is to actually to get some wind. The plant grows a lot thicker and more stable stem and branches if it’s regularly exposed to some light breeze. Among us who are entirely focused on growing chillis, the standard is to have a fan when starting seedlings indoors. Both to thicken up the stems and make for a more sturdy plant, but also decrease the risk of edema and other issues caused by to high air humidity and lack of airflow. Another key factor is that I find that you need fertiliser to grow chilli plants in no dig and get a big harvest. Specifically ones made for the flowering and fruiting stage. Otherwise it’s fine without. But they are hungry slow growing plants. And having a fertiliser that is the right balance of NPK makes a huge difference in the fruiting stage. The rot seen in the video, isn’t caused by temperature problems. But a common thing that happens due to nutrient deficiency. Specifically caused by calcium deficiency. It’s one of the common nutrient deficiencies at the fruiting stage, and quite disheartening due to how long it takes for the plant to get to the point of fruiting. So making sure there is plenty of it when it starts to flower and then grow fruits can be good. Staking absolutely can help to prevent breaking of branches. But having a little bit of gentle wind on the regular will make the plant grow a lot more sturdy and make breaking of branches uncommon, and then branches able to carry a lot more weight from fruit before it becomes a issue. If it’s gonna be a storm or very heavy wind, it might be smart to protect the plants in some way. Otherwise the wind can just be beneficial. Another factor is really choosing a very sunny spot. As many hours of direct sun as possible. It helps with the heat also. Another factor is not taking the plants outdoors 24/7, until it’s hot enough. I slowly harden them off, and let them be outside during the warm portions of the day. But I don’t let them stay outside 24/7 until the nigh temperate is consistently 10 C or higher. Another big factor is that chilli plants will focus on getting bigger and won’t start to focus on flowers and fruits until their roots sort of filled up the space. So doing closer plantings, or growing in relatively small pot sizes, makes a huge difference in getting the plant to start fruiting and having time to ripen and get a big harvest that fits your growing season. I grow both in 10 litre black pots (black helps absorb light and get things warmer). Which still produces a pretty big bush sized plant, but get them fruiting a lot sooner. And in the ground a plant them relatively close to eachother, so I get them to not be able to get as big and instead focus on flowering and fruiting sooner. I useally am able to harvest ripe fruits in July sometimes early July depend on the season and the verity, and get multiple harvests.
I've struggled for years to grow peppers in my maritime pacific NW garden in WA state. Last winter I put a soil heater cable 6" deep in part of my raised bed garden plus used a lightweight cold frame to keep the warmth in until summer arrived. I was swimming in ripe peppers by the end of July.
It's a 24ft/7m cable which covers a 6ft²/.5m² area and uses 80w. You always do both units, which I appreciate, so I thought I'd return the favor 😊. My electricity is $.113 usd per kwh which works out to $.217 per day or $6.5 per month. That's at 100% on all the time, which it's not. This cable has a built in thermostat "designed to maintain 77°f-85°f" or 25°c-29°c. The daily soil max temp would fluctuate with the weather but it did maintain about 15°f-20°f/8°c-11°c warmer soil than my unheated garden soil. This was measured 2-3 inches below the soil surface with wireless thermometers. I'm a little disappointed I didn't think to get a picture of them in their full late summer glory but I did get this picture of my one thai hot chili plant in mid July. The other two (three total plants) were orange lunchbox sweet peppers. photos.app.goo.gl/Sbpkn1S74e7uLjUX7 I was able to fill three, half gallon, fermentation crocks with all the Thai hots to make living food hot sauce.
Thanks for the great idea! I, too, am in the Pacific Northwest (Washington as well) about 3 blocks from the bay, and share the difficulty with chilies. I don’t have a cold frame, but a heating cable is something to consider!
School bus memories of munching on home-grown capsicum for a snack on the way home & sharing them with any other kid that liked them. Mine grew under a sml shade tree this year but didn't go into flower. First for everything. ❤
@@CharlesDowding1nodig Thank you for taking the time to reply to all these comments, the way you've created an online community is truly inspiring and I'm absolutely sure that the positive impact you have on so many of us is enormous and would be impossible to measure or even comprehend.
I have never had much luck growing chillies in the UK (but try every year). Last year they were still not ripe in November. I picked them, put them in a paper bag indoors, and they ripened to colour in a week or so. So I would not loose all hope if you are in the same situation, pick them, and use them anyway you can, rather than throw them away.
chillies grow beautifully on a windowsill that gets at least a few hours of direct sun. i have tonnes of ripe chillies all spring summer and autumn. if you want a dwarf type, try prairie fire, maybe 6" tall max.
@@dantheman6698 I have tried someone elses prairie fire, it looked like it was growing very well in the UK, but I thought it lacked flavour. One of my main issues is I have no southfaceing windows at all. Also, I suspect the compost I buy from stores is rubbish. This year I am feeling more positive about the compost I have mixed up at home.
@@dgbennet try the 100w ac infinity grow light, that way you could grow any type of pepper without any restriction. i have mine under one at 40w whilst waiting to put them on the windowsill in may, theyre growing like crazzzyy. and yes bought compost is often a bit crap and full of pests, i use pest free coco coir bricks with perlite and feed when watering.
Hi ! Next time just plant peppers as close as 15 to 20 centimeters ( 6 to 8 inches between plants ) and they will support each other. And please do not de-leaf them so hard . Hope all the best for all . Have a good spring time Charles !
I grew aubergines for the first time last year in a greenhouse and by September they had only got as big as my little finger so I pulled them up and put them on the compost heap, a few weeks later they had grown three times bigger! At least I am confident my composting skills are good 😊
I found a good tip that I used on my peppers last season when it started to get cold and that was to cut of the steam and leave the remaining peppers on the plant that has not got any color yet! Put the entire plant to dry were u dry the onions for example and the energy from the leafs and stem will go into hyper mode to make the remaining peppers color really fast!
Try some mini pepper varieties like Piquillo ore Hamik F1. They work out. Especially in pots (because of the higher soil temperature. Soil temperature is important in colder climates especially in the early season; even pots with no bodem on the ground (for less watering) works better. Greetings from the Netherlands
I built a low/medium polytunnel this year, and am plotting peppers and cucumbers and a cucamelon. I'm in coastal BC, and lack of summer heat is a frequent problem, so I'm hoping to have better success than I usually do. Though the other reasons for the polytunnel were being able to move seedlings out earlier/in uncooperative weather since I've not got enough space indoors, and getting some better fall/winter crops. I'm sure it will prove very helpful with at least one of these, and intend to have fun experimenting. Nice to see someone else in a similar climate dealing with this frustration and doing rather well.
Hi Charles, I'm in South Australia and this summer hasnt been the greatest for growing peppers/chillis and tomatoes. We've had a very humid start to our summer and they've only just started getting colour on the peppers and the tomatoes look diseased but have given us some nice fruits. Last summer was much better and i picked loads of veggies to share with friends.
@@CharlesDowding1nodig I think ours was due to La Nina so wetter than normal summer and as nice as the rain is anytime of the year especially on the driest continent on the planet it's not so great with hot weather. Thankfully our Autumn is shaping up nicely and I'm looking forward to winter 😀
Hi Charles, I watched your video on the use of worm compost. I've been making worm compost in trays for about ten years, purely to spread on the soul in my greenhouse with spectacular results. Love your videos. Pete.
Hi Charles, i am a vegetable gardener from South Germany. I have been trying many different pepper varieties. That one that always works for me in our climate (zone 7b) is „Roter Augspurger“. Its a small red pointy pepper. I grow them outside and get usually good and relatively early (mid August) yields. Greetings Basti
Thanks so much for that advice. I think your summers are quite a bit hotter than here and it’s pretty rare that I succeed with any kind of pepper outside but I shall give that one a try in 2025
Great video, thank you. I moved from the south of England to Scotland 4 years ago, and boy oh boy did I have a shock when I tried growing aubergines and peppers up here! It's amazing the difference it makes. Still I try every year!
In Sotland too and desperate to grow chillies and peppers. Last year I managed some chillies alongside my tomatoes. The sweet peppers didn't make an appearance. I'll be trying your advice Charles!
I am able to grow peppers outdoors with inground beds and get ripe peppers. Here in Michigan latitude 44.5 zone 5b. Rather pleased to be able to say that! Your statement about staying realistic really hit home tonight! Thank you for your inspiration!!
Last summer was pretty hot here in Finland but I took my red peppers and aubergines out middle of July. Could have done it earlier, but I liked to play it safe. I planted peppers in no dig bed and whoooosh they begin to grow 😊 My aubergines were small but very tasty. Hopefully next summer is as warm as last year because my window sills are full of pepper and aubergine seedlings. Thank you for a good advice and tips how to grow these lovely plants in difficult conditions.
That is one of the good thing about peppers. Being able to pick them early even if they are not fully ripe and they normally still taste great, you may not be as sweet or hot but are good none the less.
Beautiful peppers ❤ and aubergines 😊 Im still working on my strategy to make those work for me 😅 so far my best aubergine was about 5cm long and it was already 80% eaten up my slugs and other insects 🤣 Its fantastic my survival is not depending on these crops; at least good ol potatoes grow here (in finland) like weeds 😁
Thank you for sharing this, it's fascinating for me because you are in a cool climate and I would say that a 5 cm long aubergine in Finland is a good result! Sometimes I know that you have hot summers and I guess you just have to hope for one of them. So nice that you can grow potatoes.
Thank you Charles, the most valuable information as always! I had great success with peppers last year, fingers crossed we can achieve again this year 💚🌱
I managed OK last year here in west Cumbria, despite being late in planting out (didn't have my polytunnel up until late June). Dried a lot of cayenne & they're HOT. Bell peppers did OK considering lateness but I had very few fully ripe. This year, I'm trying aubergines & jalapenos too.
It's really interesting comparing the Scottish climate to ours. We're effectively the same latitude, incredibly cold winters but with our boreal climate we get the much hotter summers we just have to do a lot more growing indoors to start with.
Last years weather during the summer was a pretty murky wet affair,(Gloucestershire)A lot of my peppers started to spoil just before they were ready,but on the whole not a total loss,thanks for the video Charles,another learning curve to share👍
I'm at 44degrees latitude so growing peppers, watermelon and cantaloupe a greenhouse is a must. Harvested the last of my tomatoes and peppers in December last year. Will be transplanting seedlings March first.
I definitely can relate. Love seeing your videos. Reality sets in. I'll be much happier with my results this coming season thanks to you Charles. Your plants are beautiful. Zone 6b USA. 42 degrees.
For people in warmer climates like myself, be aware of the risk of leaf burn at transplant, especially if you don't use a grow light. Make sure you make them used to sun by giving them shade for the first week.
Hello Merci pour tous ces conseils. En tant que débutant ce sera tomates et concombres. Bientôt votre livre en français !! Thank you Maxime 22 in Brittany ( small 🇬🇧)
thanks a lot, i agree that chili in pots grow better in cooler climate, not to big and not to much water , annum grows better.. i start mine indoors in january to february for getting a long harvest..thanks for showing the difficulties 👩🏻🌾🌱
your video's are really good! your insight and knowledge is top, on a different level compared to propably most of us keep going you are also a very good teacher!
Another benefitial informative video thabk you so much! I have found a few minor mistakes i will remember for next spring and better germination methods to begin seedlings, tray sow will allow more seeds in a small space to begin. Giving more successful germination to pot on! Last year was a great pepper year, finishing them in the house! Compaired to this year more colder periods. Our summer season is droughtish, heavy down pours and fluctuating heat and cold days and nights!
we had quite a large harvest from 20 Barbentane aubergine plants and 30 Aji Benito pepper plants outside in last year's mild summer here in northern netherlands, I was surprised to be able to harvest the aubergines well into october, and the peppers kept turning red up to my birthday on the 23rd of october! they grew under fleece well into June, sowed on valentine's day, really worked suprisingly well. This year we're planning to do 100 aubergine plants outside and even a sweet paprika variety for outside from Bingenheimer called Resi.. we'll see how that goes :)
This is great information, and right in time to prep for this season! I just put up a 6x8 hobby greenhouse, so I might try putting a few of these in there, along with a pot or two of sweet potatoes. One thing I've been trying to do the past couple years is to overwinter a few pepper plants. I've seen some videos from folks here on RUclips, and by heavily pruning, digging up and potting their pepper plants, they are able to keep them semi dormant indoors, then plant them back out once the warmth is back. Their plants had a massive head start compared to seedlings, resulting in substantially greater yields. Granted, it does take extra space, materials and effort, so on a smaller scale it may make better sense than for a big market gardener.
I have one profi question to you, Mr Dowding, jumps to picking harvest up. When as "the growing up" and where as "the hour of day" are the timing/pluck/ of these colorful stock as foods? Отговор
Good morning Charles, your video this time is very sobering - the temperatures are not the same every year. Although I live in WKZone 6b - 7a, our summers have become warmer and the tomatoes sometimes get too warm in the greenhouse, so shading and excellent ventilation are essential. I generally have seed-resistant varieties, but when it comes to peppers I can only take seeds if I don't plant peppers at the same time, because they cross with the peppers. I have now switched to a two-year seed harvest for peppers. This means only harvesting seeds if there are no hot peppers growing in the same greenhouse at the same time. All the best! Ursula from Bavaria
@@CharlesDowding1nodig I try everything to be able to cultivate tomatoes in my greenhouse even in very warm weather. It clearly has advantages in the spring and when the heat becomes too unbearable, shade paint goes on the roof. A covered, wind-protected space would first have to be created outdoors. That won't happen quickly, but I have it in mind. All the best! Ursula
I live in Georgia and during the summer I had no peppers but I did in october and november they didn' t have time tp ripen though but a green pepper from the garden is so much better then the store bought ones! I never buy green bell peppers, they taste like grass, might as well eat that, is free!! :)) I think that don't like it too hot either! Blessings!
I was once told that chillis and peppers do not like getting below 10c and it stunts them. I really believe that I have noticed that that I always get a better harvest when I keep them 10 plus. Interesting that you sow them on 21th March. You have such a lovely greenhouse 😊 Can you save seeds from green peppers?
Great point but I don't think it's literally true, thank goodness!! And a green pepper is not mature so I would not try to save seed, I've not done it but I'm pretty sure the quality will be compromised
I visited Sissinghurst Castle Gardens in Kent in August last year and spent some time in its beautiful organic vegetable garden. I noticed that there was a sign beside a row of Aubergines growing outside that said that this particular variety did very well outside producing 15-20 fruit per plant. The lady gardener I spoke to said that they were sown and grown on in warmth as normal and planted out in the open without any protection after the last frost date in late May. The variety was “Violetta Lungha” and as I have a packet of seeds I will be trying these in my Hertfordshire allotment this year.
Charles - two observations I've had from growing chillis. Firstly, the best I achieved growing outdoors in the soil happened when inadvertently, a plant grew surrounded by Filderkraut cabbage plants (poor judgement of space needed between plants!) - maybe protection from wind helped them give a good crop? Second, growing them in pots, I find they do well out of doors through summer to generate the fruit, but then you can simply bring the pots indoors to ripen them in the house. Like with tomatoes, if you then starve them of water, the coloration tends to occur quicker. It's a bit of an art form deciding when you have all the fruit you're going to get, as that's the time to move into ripening mode. But late September works well up in NW London.
Just this morning my first chilis popped out to greet me 😊, situated in a small greenhouse on top of my woodstove in the living room. Thus they get between 25 to 30 C to germinate. I moved them right away to a south facing window. So your video came just in time, Dankeschön. After some years of trial I found out that chilis will grow more abundantly here on 500 m altitude than peppers and I chose mostly low to no heat varieties like habanada, nadapeno. Some will grow in containers so I can take them into the house come October and go on harvesting through winter as long as they don't catch pests. I cannot await to sow tomatoes.....
Good show, thanks Charles. odd yr last yr, toms were very late, did quite well on sweet peppers, all the yellows finished (mostly yolo), lots of green, not so many reds, had some get to 8ft tall in the GH
Mate, after a few years of working the beds in our house, we needed to move closer to my sons school. And it's not quite back to square one, the new beds have grown things before but have been heavily neglected.
Great video. Have you tried to grow Padrón peppers ? Those are typically eaten fried as tapas in Spain and harvested as green. So no need to get them to colour... I'm giving it a try this year.
Yes I have! They are prolific and fun to grow, especially because each one has a different level of heat. I found that some were blistering hot and some very mild!
Thank you so much, I thought it was all my fault the peppers didn’t do well at home. I’ll try again, with a more suitable variety. I have a little 8x6 green house, for raising all my seeds, and sitting in myself. Am wondering if I can create a mini greenhouse inside it, just for the hot loving plants, so I can keep the door open for my own comfort, and not roast anything else 🤔
I love eggplant, but flea beetles attack almost instantly when they start producing flowers. I still got quite a harvest last year, but the leaves were laced with covered in holes.
Hello Charles, Belle vidéo 😍 l'année dernière j'ai planté 30 poivrons et 27 aubergines (toutes issues de mes propres semis). Comme tu le sais,je n'ai pas de serre mais je les ai plantés côté sud protégés contre un mur. J'ai eu une bonne production ( j'ai été étonné moi-même 😅) et j'en ai récolté jusquau 25 octobre 😲Etonnant hein? 😁 Je note depuis 2 ans ce que je récolte,voici le résultat : 12,800 kgs pour les aubergines et 17 kgs pour les poivrons J'étais très content et très fier 😊 Bonne fin de semaine Celà fait du bien d'avoir enfin du soleil Pépé JP de ch'nord
I tried growing aubergines in my first year and kind of decided not to bother with warm climate veg as I didn't have a decent greenhouse. I'm also in Somerset. Tomatoes are a bit different, but even then some varieties do better than others. If you're just starting out, stuff that doesn't require special treatment will do your confidence more good.
In the coastal southeast USA we have a 260 day growing season. It allows me to top the peppers at the first blossom which temporarily stunts their growth , however they becomes strong stocky bushes that will yield 2-3x the amount of fruit later in the season without the need for support. I guess this is only possible because of the extended growing season.
My experience is that chilies want warmer soil, hence like it better in containers than direct in the ground. We plant two chilies in 90 liter containers and they super thrive in our poly tunnel her in Sweden. Two chilies in 90 liters gives the largest harvest per container. We tried three but get about the same or maybe a bit less per container.
As I’ve said before I love your cd15 30 and 60 cells I would also like it if you did these without cells where you prick them out, just because the quality is so good and will last unlike the flimsy plastic ones or is it better to just use different cells. It’s also as I’ll be sowing flower seeds xx
Hello Charles im watching all the way from south africa,here our su.mers ars very hot and our winters are cold but where i stay we dont get snow,so with my pepper plants and chillie plants i leave them there after summer throughout the winter then after winter they shoot again and istart getting fruits again. I only start new plants after 3 cycles
I have been growing various chillies in New Zealand for about 8 years. Outdoors, tunnel house, pots, in ground. For the first time this year I used autopot which is just a flood-drain system of feeding. It works amazing for chillies. I have one 2 year old habanero that is now the biggest hab I have ever seen. Almost 2m diameter but only 1m tall. Branches now touching the ground (oops) on all sides. Picked around 50 large chillies and still have maybe 100+ left on the plant. My jalapenos and bell peppers in this system are the biggest fruits I have ever had. I barely add any nutrients to the reservoir, so it must be the style of watering that they love. I can't wait to see the root system. Autopot + tunnel house = winner.
How hot is too hot. I have a green house but struggle to keep it cool during the day it gets so hot. I feel like my peppers and tomatoes should be better I think its too hot. Love your videos and gardens. Always a joy to see a tour. Cheers from Canada
Thank you, and I find that 40 to 45° is enough to cause problems especially for tomatoes which really prefer it below 30-35°C. On the other hand, aubergines and peppers and chilies don't mind the extra heat so maybe give a little extra water in super hot weather, at any time of day including the afternoon if you're around
@@CharlesDowding1nodig Thank you. I think I’m going to try some shade cloth this season to help with temps. I need to make the window bigger on the back end of greenhouse too, which should help with more air flow. I leave the door open all summer but the back window isn’t the biggest so I’m going to try making it bigger this year. You’re right though, some extra water would probably benefit the plants. Staying on top of watering is hard sometimes lol I’m sure I don’t water enough. I need to get some irrigation set up some day too. Haha always something right. Thanks for responding
Hello there sir. I've planted 6 of my butternut squashes and 3 Cantaloupes on my no dig garden bed just this morning. I've transplanted the plants from the seed tray to the bed after they have been growing for 14 days (true leaves formation and all). But to my surprise, when I look at them this late afternoon (I transplant them at 6:30 when the sun barely goes up) two of them wilted, two of them have their leaves eaten by pumpkin beetles and two of them starting to show the sign of yellowing on their seed leaves. I don't know why this happens, I use compost and all. Any idea why?
For the ones that are wilting, it may not be catastrophic, and just a case of some root damage between seed tray and ground, combined with the hot afternoon sun, making them wild, and then by the evening, they should look fine again. Clearly they're in a week phase and I don't know how to prevent those beetles I would normally grow them to a bigger size, 25 days old, so they are more resilient.
@@CharlesDowding1nodig I've noticed that you always grow melons in polytunnel or greenhouse, is growing melons outside a bad idea? Upon looking for references. Many gardeners also do the same thing. Not growing melons outside.
It's simply a question of average temperatures during the summer. Here it's 21°C 70°F and that's not warm enough for melons to succeed even though they might grow. If your summers are hotter than that, you can grow them outside
Chilli peppers....oh my the struggles I've had....its a fine line growing these in a UK climate. Seed early indoors , put in the greenhouse when warmer.. even so.. its so hit and miss
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Before I started gardening, I was watching Charles videos and I was thinking : Wow he's pretty good. Today, I realize I was wrong ... he's not pretty good, he's a freaking artist.
Very kind, thank you
Absolutely 😊
A master gardener.
I refer to Charles as my veg garden guru.
That transplant was ridiculously smooth
Always love your videos! As a longtime subscriber, I feel like I am watching a friend. You are a world renowned expert, but your manner is so humble and approachable you make everyone feel comfortable. As an older gardener, who grew up on a farm, some of the newer YT gardeners come across condescending, but I try to give them the benefit of the doubt.😀 You have the experience and expertise, but never come across as condescending and I appreciate you very much. Hope you are having a wonderful week. Thank you!
Very well said! I've learnt so much from Charles
sometimes he responds to questions as well...I think easier on instagram
How lovely to see this, I appreciate you writing.
I relate to the quote along the lines of "I have plenty to be humble about"!
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Have you ever tried overwintering chilies? I live in a much warmer climate and still struggle to grow peppers. Often my plants are quite small still by first frost, having given me maybe only a handful of fruits. In these cases, I have dug up the plants and put them in pots, pruned them back and stuck them under my grow lights indoors over the winter. When they are replanted the next spring, they produce bumper crops of peppers in early summer, way before any peppers I've sown that year. It's definitely worth a try if you have the space indoors to baby them. It's also worth noting that I don't remove any of their leaves throughout their first season, so they still have buds in the leaf axils that can sprout after pruning them back. I've heard of pinching pepper plants as well to make them bushier, which may be ideal for creating a shorter plant to overwinter. I plan to give that a go this season.
Great tips, thank you. I should've mentioned it, that I overwinter chilli plants but did not have any at the time we made the video. It works well as you describe
@@CharlesDowding1nodigI have no grow lights or heatmats, can I learn from you which are the the best to purchase and which maybe a better way /bestway
to achieve growth that do not include getting greater electric bills, the need for such in winter is outwaying it's worth it seems!
I'm overwintering my capsicums this winter in London. I will wake them up next month.
I've found that picking on ripe fruit when it's a good size and letting them ripen in a sunny window works really well.@CharlesDowding1nodig
@@CharlesDowding1nodigCan you do this with sweet bell peppers too?
I grew peppers in the coastal PNW last year for the first time and didn't have a greenhouse. I only got one or two red ones by the time the frosts returned, but my husband and I strung up all the green peppers we harvested to dry inside (hot wax, poblano and bell) and to our surprise they almost all turned red in a month or two! We use them in all kinds of things. They're worth growing for us!
I have lived in the coastal Pacific Northwest for 2.5 decades and I also don’t have a greenhouse or tunnel, or anything like that. I say you did GREAT to get any that turned red! I don’t know that I have had a single one in all these years get fully ripe on the plant. But I keep trying. 😀
What great feedback, thanks for sharing your success. I'm impressed that they ripened rather thanrotted, guess that you have lovely dry air in your house
@@CharlesDowding1nodig we did see one of them starting to grow fur after maybe two months 😆 At that point we had to pull down the rest of them and finish drying them in the dehydrator. We do have a lot of humidity here so we keep them stored in jars now
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CHARLES, To support my pepper plants, for the past couple of years I have been using the inexpensive (not good for tomato) 4-5 foot tomato cages. They work great for p[eppers. Ray Delbury Sussex County NJ USA
Lovely tip thanks Ray
With peppers, I find that picking the early flowers off helps the plant to grow bigger, and then when you finally let the plant fruit, the plant is much stronger and can give you better yield.
Thanks that is so true. I did say it in the recording, but it got edited out! We ended up with too much footage and had to reduce quite a lot, it’s one frustration with a long video-timing like this.
Long time subscriber, I’m on the other end of the spectrum, growing cool season crops in Arkansas ( the last few years, formerly Utah) in the winter, in my greenhouse. 14x28. It got close to zero but with my ten black water barrels, and a very small heater. Nothing froze all winter and, I was amazed the difference the water barrels made, and it was my first time using water barrels at 20 years. Greenhouses are amazing. Thanks for all your knowledge, sir Charles.
I'm so happy to read this Gerald. Always learning! And thanks
Always worth trying a few such plants. Some years you'll get a huge harvest, and other years will be meager. All depends on how quick of a spring, warm of a summer, and long of a fall you end up with.
Charles, you’re the breath of fresh air and relaxation I use after a long day. Never stop doing what you do. Much love.
Thank you Harrison, very kind
Greetings, Charles, from Windermere, Florida zone 9b USA
Thanks for sharing your beautiful garden and special knowledge.
The day started out at 52°F at 5a.m and warmed up to the low 70's 🌞
Take care and Spring is just around the corner
❤Peggy❤
It's snowing here in Austria Peggy, 👌🤠🙏❤️🥶
Nice to hear Peggy and lucky you I say. I drove through a snowstorm today!
In 2022, my chillis did incredibly well…and last year, they did incredibly badly! Just shows that in marginal climates like here in the UK, can't always expect everything to grow as you'd like it. Hoping this summer is a little warmer 🙂
So true!
A little tip for those having issues with watering (like I do) and or are new like me, try keeping a pot of just the mix with ur potted plants and keep it dry. This will give you a decent idea of how dry a pot is when compared. Works very well for seedlings and young plants. After a while ull be able to gauge the weight alot better.
Thanks for the tip Martin
Every time I watch you meander through your garden, and speak of the plants you're growing, I'm reminded of Roger Swain, who hosted "The Victory Garden" here in the US from the mid 1980's to early 2000's. You are doing for gardening and growing today through this platform what he did then on television, bringing to light the joy of growing food and spending time in the garden. I surely do appreciate the effort you spend bringing these videos to the world.
How lovely, thanks for your appreciation. 💚
I loved The Victory Garden. It’s a shame we don’t have good American gardening television shows anymore, but at least we have You Tube and Brit Box!
😂 so glad to see this video thank you Charles for sharing! I have been working out how to grow pepper's in SW Scotland at 270m above sea level for about 3 year's now. It is possible but it is difficult and I love the challenge.
I grow them inside in the North East of Scotland (moray). Outside I get 5 sad chilli's inside I get ~70 per plant.
Cheers Billy, and that is awesome!
I’m in Sweden around the Stockholm region, I can grow chilli peppers with great harvests just out in the open without a greenhouse.
The key to getting a big harvest is starting the seeds early. I normally start them indoors, with grow lights, in January.
Maybe even December for some of the slow growing capsicum Chinense verities.
February still works. Early March is stating to be on the late side, will get a okay harvest but probably not multiple or especially big one.
In in regard to having a plant with long weak branches, the key is to actually to get some wind. The plant grows a lot thicker and more stable stem and branches if it’s regularly exposed to some light breeze.
Among us who are entirely focused on growing chillis, the standard is to have a fan when starting seedlings indoors. Both to thicken up the stems and make for a more sturdy plant, but also decrease the risk of edema and other issues caused by to high air humidity and lack of airflow.
Another key factor is that I find that you need fertiliser to grow chilli plants in no dig and get a big harvest. Specifically ones made for the flowering and fruiting stage. Otherwise it’s fine without. But they are hungry slow growing plants. And having a fertiliser that is the right balance of NPK makes a huge difference in the fruiting stage.
The rot seen in the video, isn’t caused by temperature problems. But a common thing that happens due to nutrient deficiency. Specifically caused by calcium deficiency. It’s one of the common nutrient deficiencies at the fruiting stage, and quite disheartening due to how long it takes for the plant to get to the point of fruiting. So making sure there is plenty of it when it starts to flower and then grow fruits can be good.
Staking absolutely can help to prevent breaking of branches. But having a little bit of gentle wind on the regular will make the plant grow a lot more sturdy and make breaking of branches uncommon, and then branches able to carry a lot more weight from fruit before it becomes a issue.
If it’s gonna be a storm or very heavy wind, it might be smart to protect the plants in some way.
Otherwise the wind can just be beneficial.
Another factor is really choosing a very sunny spot. As many hours of direct sun as possible. It helps with the heat also.
Another factor is not taking the plants outdoors 24/7, until it’s hot enough.
I slowly harden them off, and let them be outside during the warm portions of the day.
But I don’t let them stay outside 24/7 until the nigh temperate is consistently 10 C or higher.
Another big factor is that chilli plants will focus on getting bigger and won’t start to focus on flowers and fruits until their roots sort of filled up the space.
So doing closer plantings, or growing in relatively small pot sizes, makes a huge difference in getting the plant to start fruiting and having time to ripen and get a big harvest that fits your growing season.
I grow both in 10 litre black pots (black helps absorb light and get things warmer). Which still produces a pretty big bush sized plant, but get them fruiting a lot sooner. And in the ground a plant them relatively close to eachother, so I get them to not be able to get as big and instead focus on flowering and fruiting sooner.
I useally am able to harvest ripe fruits in July sometimes early July depend on the season and the verity, and get multiple harvests.
Lovely work and thanks for sharing all these details 💚
I've struggled for years to grow peppers in my maritime pacific NW garden in WA state. Last winter I put a soil heater cable 6" deep in part of my raised bed garden plus used a lightweight cold frame to keep the warmth in until summer arrived. I was swimming in ripe peppers by the end of July.
Amazing!! though maybe not cheap?
It's a 24ft/7m cable which covers a 6ft²/.5m² area and uses 80w. You always do both units, which I appreciate, so I thought I'd return the favor 😊. My electricity is $.113 usd per kwh which works out to $.217 per day or $6.5 per month. That's at 100% on all the time, which it's not. This cable has a built in thermostat "designed to maintain 77°f-85°f" or 25°c-29°c. The daily soil max temp would fluctuate with the weather but it did maintain about 15°f-20°f/8°c-11°c warmer soil than my unheated garden soil. This was measured 2-3 inches below the soil surface with wireless thermometers.
I'm a little disappointed I didn't think to get a picture of them in their full late summer glory but I did get this picture of my one thai hot chili plant in mid July. The other two (three total plants) were orange lunchbox sweet peppers.
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I was able to fill three, half gallon, fermentation crocks with all the Thai hots to make living food hot sauce.
Thanks for the great idea! I, too, am in the Pacific Northwest (Washington as well) about 3 blocks from the bay, and share the difficulty with chilies. I don’t have a cold frame, but a heating cable is something to consider!
The cold frame I'm using is a ~$50 3'W x 4'L x 3'H "mini greenhouse tent" from Amazon.
Or a hotbed. But with those crazy low north american power prices (I think ours in Europe are 4 times as high) a heating cable is tempting
Wooooow this is a really beautiful,well organized garden.
MashaAllah 🎉🎉
thank you 🌱
That tip about the spidermites is just what I needed. Defenetly gonna try to water more next year. Lost a lot of harvest due to them
Nice to hear and somebody else reckons that spraying with dilute peppermint oil can really set them back!
School bus memories of munching on home-grown capsicum for a snack on the way home & sharing them with any other kid that liked them. Mine grew under a sml shade tree this year but didn't go into flower. First for everything. ❤
Great memories to have 💚
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Very kind, thank you
Gardening is so simple and beautiful you just have to love it
So true!
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Thank you for taking the time to reply to all these comments, the way you've created an online community is truly inspiring and I'm absolutely sure that the positive impact you have on so many of us is enormous and would be impossible to measure or even comprehend.
Thank you for your kind words and you are very welcome🌱
How do you stop issues with horse tail grass in the greenhouse?
Am fortunate not to have it here! Keep pulling is all I know for remedy
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I have never had much luck growing chillies in the UK (but try every year). Last year they were still not ripe in November. I picked them, put them in a paper bag indoors, and they ripened to colour in a week or so. So I would not loose all hope if you are in the same situation, pick them, and use them anyway you can, rather than throw them away.
chillies grow beautifully on a windowsill that gets at least a few hours of direct sun. i have tonnes of ripe chillies all spring summer and autumn. if you want a dwarf type, try prairie fire, maybe 6" tall max.
@@dantheman6698 I have tried someone elses prairie fire, it looked like it was growing very well in the UK, but I thought it lacked flavour.
One of my main issues is I have no southfaceing windows at all. Also, I suspect the compost I buy from stores is rubbish. This year I am feeling more positive about the compost I have mixed up at home.
@@dgbennet try the 100w ac infinity grow light, that way you could grow any type of pepper without any restriction. i have mine under one at 40w whilst waiting to put them on the windowsill in may, theyre growing like crazzzyy. and yes bought compost is often a bit crap and full of pests, i use pest free coco coir bricks with perlite and feed when watering.
Hi ! Next time just plant peppers as close as 15 to 20 centimeters ( 6 to 8 inches between plants ) and they will support each other. And please do not de-leaf them so hard . Hope all the best for all . Have a good spring time Charles !
Great idea thanks
I grew aubergines for the first time last year in a greenhouse and by September they had only got as big as my little finger so I pulled them up and put them on the compost heap, a few weeks later they had grown three times bigger! At least I am confident my composting skills are good 😊
What an amazing story Lucy! Get some of that compost into your greenhouse!
This year 2024 i picked last pepper in green house on 15 of november great harvest in north london uk thank you for videos very educational
Thanks, good to hear
I found a good tip that I used on my peppers last season when it started to get cold and that was to cut of the steam and leave the remaining peppers on the plant that has not got any color yet! Put the entire plant to dry were u dry the onions for example and the energy from the leafs and stem will go into hyper mode to make the remaining peppers color really fast!
That's a great idea! Thanks
Try some mini pepper varieties like Piquillo ore Hamik F1. They work out. Especially in pots (because of the higher soil temperature. Soil temperature is important in colder climates especially in the early season; even pots with no bodem on the ground (for less watering) works better. Greetings from the Netherlands
Thanks for your tip, good ideas
I built a low/medium polytunnel this year, and am plotting peppers and cucumbers and a cucamelon. I'm in coastal BC, and lack of summer heat is a frequent problem, so I'm hoping to have better success than I usually do. Though the other reasons for the polytunnel were being able to move seedlings out earlier/in uncooperative weather since I've not got enough space indoors, and getting some better fall/winter crops. I'm sure it will prove very helpful with at least one of these, and intend to have fun experimenting.
Nice to see someone else in a similar climate dealing with this frustration and doing rather well.
Sounds fun Elizabeth 🌱
Not sure where about in the country you are but here in the midlands hoping to grow some peppers this year. This video serves as good inspiration
I am in Somerset, I am glad you are inspired Mia
I live in Sweden and I`m growing a pepper called Korosko. I think it is a very nice variety in a colder climate. Thank you for your youtube channel.
Very cool for your climate! Thanks for sharing
You have a very beautiful garden
Thanks Donna
So nice vidio.❤
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Welcome!
Hi Charles, I'm in South Australia and this summer hasnt been the greatest for growing peppers/chillis and tomatoes. We've had a very humid start to our summer and they've only just started getting colour on the peppers and the tomatoes look diseased but have given us some nice fruits. Last summer was much better and i picked loads of veggies to share with friends.
Sounds difficult! I am worried about what may happen here this summer
@@CharlesDowding1nodig I think ours was due to La Nina so wetter than normal summer and as nice as the rain is anytime of the year especially on the driest continent on the planet it's not so great with hot weather. Thankfully our Autumn is shaping up nicely and I'm looking forward to winter 😀
Watching this has giving me a lot more understanding about sowing and growing peppers thank you so much.
Great to hear 🌱
Hi Charles, I watched your video on the use of worm compost. I've been making worm compost in trays for about ten years, purely to spread on the soul in my greenhouse with spectacular results. Love your videos. Pete.
Great to hear of your success Pete 🌱
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Hi Charles, i am a vegetable gardener from South Germany. I have been trying many different pepper varieties. That one that always works for me in our climate (zone 7b) is „Roter Augspurger“. Its a small red pointy pepper. I grow them outside and get usually good and relatively early (mid August) yields. Greetings Basti
Thanks so much for that advice. I think your summers are quite a bit hotter than here and it’s pretty rare that I succeed with any kind of pepper outside but I shall give that one a try in 2025
Great video, thank you. I moved from the south of England to Scotland 4 years ago, and boy oh boy did I have a shock when I tried growing aubergines and peppers up here! It's amazing the difference it makes. Still I try every year!
Oh wow - and darker winters!
In Sotland too and desperate to grow chillies and peppers. Last year I managed some chillies alongside my tomatoes. The sweet peppers didn't make an appearance.
I'll be trying your advice Charles!
Well done Charles and thank you for sharing 👍
You are very welcome
I am able to grow peppers outdoors with inground beds and get ripe peppers. Here in Michigan latitude 44.5 zone 5b. Rather pleased to be able to say that! Your statement about staying realistic really hit home tonight! Thank you for your inspiration!!
Thanks for sharing that good news Wayne!
Last summer was pretty hot here in Finland but I took my red peppers and aubergines out middle of July. Could have done it earlier, but I liked to play it safe. I planted peppers in no dig bed and whoooosh they begin to grow 😊 My aubergines were small but very tasty. Hopefully next summer is as warm as last year because my window sills are full of pepper and aubergine seedlings. Thank you for a good advice and tips how to grow these lovely plants in difficult conditions.
Oh wow! In Finland - magic
Great information and thank you for sharing Charles. Excellent video to watch. Best wishes Jason from Melbourne Australia.
Glad it was helpful Jason, I hope summer is good for you
That is one of the good thing about peppers. Being able to pick them early even if they are not fully ripe and they normally still taste great, you may not be as sweet or hot but are good none the less.
Green peppers are ideal for Chinese stir fries with very sweet sauces.
Wow. I can only dream of having a harvest that looks like this. Still learning.
Keep going 🌱
Had a good pepper harvest despite cloudy Scots summer. Peppers seem happy in 10ltr black pots. As you HotWax is a good variety as is friggitello.
Beautiful peppers ❤ and aubergines 😊
Im still working on my strategy to make those work for me 😅 so far my best aubergine was about 5cm long and it was already 80% eaten up my slugs and other insects 🤣
Its fantastic my survival is not depending on these crops; at least good ol potatoes grow here (in finland) like weeds 😁
Thank you for sharing this, it's fascinating for me because you are in a cool climate and I would say that a 5 cm long aubergine in Finland is a good result! Sometimes I know that you have hot summers and I guess you just have to hope for one of them. So nice that you can grow potatoes.
What a great video, really appreciate it!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thank you Charles, the most valuable information as always! I had great success with peppers last year, fingers crossed we can achieve again this year 💚🌱
Best of luck!
I managed OK last year here in west Cumbria, despite being late in planting out (didn't have my polytunnel up until late June).
Dried a lot of cayenne & they're HOT.
Bell peppers did OK considering lateness but I had very few fully ripe.
This year, I'm trying aubergines & jalapenos too.
Sounds great! Cayenne are super healthy!!
Ah, right in time! I know this one will be amazing as always. Its quite a challenge in zone 5a indeed!
Indeed and even here in so-called 8!!
Thank you
You are welcome
It's really interesting comparing the Scottish climate to ours. We're effectively the same latitude, incredibly cold winters but with our boreal climate we get the much hotter summers we just have to do a lot more growing indoors to start with.
Yes the differences are so interesting!
Last years weather during the summer was a pretty murky wet affair,(Gloucestershire)A lot of my peppers started to spoil just before they were ready,but on the whole not a total loss,thanks for the video Charles,another learning curve to share👍
Maybe this summer Mark!
Good morning Charles 😊 You could write to me, what are the ingredients for growing with the no dig method.
Thanks 🙏
Great video! Thank you For sharing ❤. Would love for you to share more about herbal uses and recipes.
I'm at 44degrees latitude so growing peppers, watermelon and cantaloupe a greenhouse is a must. Harvested the last of my tomatoes and peppers in December last year. Will be transplanting seedlings March first.
Thanks for sharing, I m 51 latitude, hence the difficulties sometimes
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I definitely can relate. Love seeing your videos. Reality sets in. I'll be much happier with my results this coming season thanks to you Charles. Your plants are beautiful. Zone 6b USA. 42 degrees.
Great to hear and thank you 🙂
For people in warmer climates like myself, be aware of the risk of leaf burn at transplant, especially if you don't use a grow light. Make sure you make them used to sun by giving them shade for the first week.
Thanks
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Merci pour tous ces conseils. En tant que débutant ce sera tomates et concombres.
Bientôt votre livre en français !! Thank you
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C'est bien Maxime! 🌷
thanks a lot, i agree that chili in pots grow better in cooler climate, not to big and not to much water , annum grows better.. i start mine indoors in january to february for getting a long harvest..thanks for showing the difficulties 👩🏻🌾🌱
Thanks for sharing Annette
Fascinating subjects - I'll enjoy this video and shall watch in stages I think as it will be good "bedtime watching" ! Thank you.
Enjoy 🙂
your video's are really good!
your insight and knowledge is top, on a different level compared to propably most of us
keep going you are also a very good teacher!
Many thanks 🏆
Another benefitial informative video thabk you so much! I have found a few minor mistakes i will remember for next spring and better germination methods to begin seedlings, tray sow will allow more seeds in a small space to begin. Giving more successful germination to pot on! Last year was a great pepper year, finishing them in the house! Compaired to this year more colder periods. Our summer season is droughtish, heavy down pours and fluctuating heat and cold days and nights!
Glad it was helpful Renata, and thank you for sharing your summer stories. I hope that autumn is warmer.
we had quite a large harvest from 20 Barbentane aubergine plants and 30 Aji Benito pepper plants outside in last year's mild summer here in northern netherlands, I was surprised to be able to harvest the aubergines well into october, and the peppers kept turning red up to my birthday on the 23rd of october! they grew under fleece well into June, sowed on valentine's day, really worked suprisingly well. This year we're planning to do 100 aubergine plants outside and even a sweet paprika variety for outside from Bingenheimer called Resi.. we'll see how that goes :)
So impressive!
This is great information, and right in time to prep for this season! I just put up a 6x8 hobby greenhouse, so I might try putting a few of these in there, along with a pot or two of sweet potatoes.
One thing I've been trying to do the past couple years is to overwinter a few pepper plants. I've seen some videos from folks here on RUclips, and by heavily pruning, digging up and potting their pepper plants, they are able to keep them semi dormant indoors, then plant them back out once the warmth is back. Their plants had a massive head start compared to seedlings, resulting in substantially greater yields. Granted, it does take extra space, materials and effort, so on a smaller scale it may make better sense than for a big market gardener.
Cheers Joshua. I planned to try it last year but the frost got there first! Definitely worth attempting
I have one profi question to you, Mr Dowding, jumps to picking harvest up. When as "the growing up" and where as "the hour of day" are the timing/pluck/ of these colorful stock as foods?
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Good morning Charles, your video this time is very sobering - the temperatures are not the same every year. Although I live in WKZone 6b - 7a, our summers have become warmer and the tomatoes sometimes get too warm in the greenhouse, so shading and excellent ventilation are essential. I generally have seed-resistant varieties, but when it comes to peppers I can only take seeds if I don't plant peppers at the same time, because they cross with the peppers. I have now switched to a two-year seed harvest for peppers. This means only harvesting seeds if there are no hot peppers growing in the same greenhouse at the same time.
All the best! Ursula from Bavaria
Hello Ursula, thanks for this information! Really helpful and it sounds like your best plan is to grow tomatoes outside?
@@CharlesDowding1nodig I try everything to be able to cultivate tomatoes in my greenhouse even in very warm weather. It clearly has advantages in the spring and when the heat becomes too unbearable, shade paint goes on the roof. A covered, wind-protected space would first have to be created outdoors. That won't happen quickly, but I have it in mind. All the best! Ursula
Nice, love 🌶 🌶 🌶 and the channel too
Great to hear Jose
I live in Georgia and during the summer I had no peppers but I did in october and november they didn' t have time tp ripen though but a green pepper from the garden is so much better then the store bought ones! I never buy green bell peppers, they taste like grass, might as well eat that, is free!! :))
I think that don't like it too hot either! Blessings!
I was once told that chillis and peppers do not like getting below 10c and it stunts them. I really believe that I have noticed that that I always get a better harvest when I keep them 10 plus.
Interesting that you sow them on 21th March. You have such a lovely greenhouse 😊
Can you save seeds from green peppers?
Great point but I don't think it's literally true, thank goodness!! And a green pepper is not mature so I would not try to save seed, I've not done it but I'm pretty sure the quality will be compromised
@@CharlesDowding1nodig yes I thought that would be the case! Thanks so much
I visited Sissinghurst Castle Gardens in Kent in August last year and spent some time in its beautiful organic vegetable garden. I noticed that there was a sign beside a row of Aubergines growing outside that said that this particular variety did very well outside producing 15-20 fruit per plant. The lady gardener I spoke to said that they were sown and grown on in warmth as normal and planted out in the open without any protection after the last frost date in late May. The variety was “Violetta Lungha” and as I have a packet of seeds I will be trying these in my Hertfordshire allotment this year.
Fantastic tip Mike!
South Coast, Victoria Australia. Just picked a dozen mini capsicums rich red but very small. Very sweet and lots of seeds. Didn't space enough.
Oh well done, here in Albury mine cooked this year. Plus the high temps seem to stop fertilisation, it’s a tricky balance.
Charles - two observations I've had from growing chillis. Firstly, the best I achieved growing outdoors in the soil happened when inadvertently, a plant grew surrounded by Filderkraut cabbage plants (poor judgement of space needed between plants!) - maybe protection from wind helped them give a good crop? Second, growing them in pots, I find they do well out of doors through summer to generate the fruit, but then you can simply bring the pots indoors to ripen them in the house. Like with tomatoes, if you then starve them of water, the coloration tends to occur quicker. It's a bit of an art form deciding when you have all the fruit you're going to get, as that's the time to move into ripening mode. But late September works well up in NW London.
Hey Rhys I love this.
You are an artist! Thanks
Just this morning my first chilis popped out to greet me 😊, situated in a small greenhouse on top of my woodstove in the living room. Thus they get between 25 to 30 C to germinate. I moved them right away to a south facing window. So your video came just in time, Dankeschön. After some years of trial I found out that chilis will grow more abundantly here on 500 m altitude than peppers and I chose mostly low to no heat varieties like habanada, nadapeno. Some will grow in containers so I can take them into the house come October and go on harvesting through winter as long as they don't catch pests. I cannot await to sow tomatoes.....
So nice that you are succeeding like this 😊
Good show, thanks Charles. odd yr last yr, toms were very late, did quite well on sweet peppers, all the yellows finished (mostly yolo), lots of green, not so many reds, had some get to 8ft tall in the GH
8ft, amazing!
Mate, after a few years of working the beds in our house, we needed to move closer to my sons school.
And it's not quite back to square one, the new beds have grown things before but have been heavily neglected.
I hope the down feeling does not last too long
Great video. Have you tried to grow Padrón peppers ? Those are typically eaten fried as tapas in Spain and harvested as green. So no need to get them to colour... I'm giving it a try this year.
Yes I have! They are prolific and fun to grow, especially because each one has a different level of heat. I found that some were blistering hot and some very mild!
Thank you so much, I thought it was all my fault the peppers didn’t do well at home. I’ll try again, with a more suitable variety. I have a little 8x6 green house, for raising all my seeds, and sitting in myself. Am wondering if I can create a mini greenhouse inside it, just for the hot loving plants, so I can keep the door open for my own comfort, and not roast anything else 🤔
That sounds promising!
I love eggplant, but flea beetles attack almost instantly when they start producing flowers. I still got quite a harvest last year, but the leaves were laced with covered in holes.
That is frustrating. Here in the UK we do not suffer them on aubergines for some reason
Hello Charles,
Belle vidéo 😍
l'année dernière j'ai planté 30 poivrons et 27 aubergines (toutes issues de mes propres semis).
Comme tu le sais,je n'ai pas de serre mais je les ai plantés côté sud protégés contre un mur.
J'ai eu une bonne production ( j'ai été étonné moi-même 😅) et j'en ai récolté jusquau 25 octobre 😲Etonnant hein? 😁
Je note depuis 2 ans ce que je récolte,voici le résultat : 12,800 kgs pour les aubergines et 17 kgs pour les poivrons
J'étais très content et très fier 😊
Bonne fin de semaine
Celà fait du bien d'avoir enfin du soleil
Pépé JP de ch'nord
Oui formidable, c'est tant d'aubergine! Et surement, du soleil enfin.
Nice one Charles, gud vid...
Glad you enjoyed it 🙂
Good video❤🌶
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Good afternoon Charles, are you planning to create a mobile app for your calendar? It would be nice!
Thanks Igor, and I think it's very unlikely. My time is too short, not enough hours in a day
I tried growing aubergines in my first year and kind of decided not to bother with warm climate veg as I didn't have a decent greenhouse. I'm also in Somerset. Tomatoes are a bit different, but even then some varieties do better than others. If you're just starting out, stuff that doesn't require special treatment will do your confidence more good.
Nice tip!
In the coastal southeast USA we have a 260 day growing season. It allows me to top the peppers at the first blossom which temporarily stunts their growth , however they becomes strong stocky bushes that will yield 2-3x the amount of fruit later in the season without the need for support. I guess this is only possible because of the extended growing season.
What a great comment and I had heard of this but could not imagine it working here. I shall give it a go next year! You have a lovely long season!
I've always found peppers to grow better in pots and my temps in Eastern Canada can hit 40+ in the summers.
My experience is that chilies want warmer soil, hence like it better in containers than direct in the ground. We plant two chilies in 90 liter containers and they super thrive in our poly tunnel her in Sweden. Two chilies in 90 liters gives the largest harvest per container. We tried three but get about the same or maybe a bit less per container.
Brilliant thanks
As I’ve said before I love your cd15 30 and 60 cells I would also like it if you did these without cells where you prick them out, just because the quality is so good and will last unlike the flimsy plastic ones or is it better to just use different cells. It’s also as I’ll be sowing flower seeds xx
Interesting thought! I think it's unlikely though, and these are excellent for flowers of all kinds
I've started them off in the greenhouse, then put outside and they seem to be ok. I am in Wales
I am impressed! There’s a lot of positive comments here and that’s encouraging I feel to everybody even though they’re not straightforward.
Hello Charles im watching all the way from south africa,here our su.mers ars very hot and our winters are cold but where i stay we dont get snow,so with my pepper plants and chillie plants i leave them there after summer throughout the winter then after winter they shoot again and istart getting fruits again.
I only start new plants after 3 cycles
That's amazing and thank you for sharing.
I have been growing various chillies in New Zealand for about 8 years. Outdoors, tunnel house, pots, in ground. For the first time this year I used autopot which is just a flood-drain system of feeding. It works amazing for chillies. I have one 2 year old habanero that is now the biggest hab I have ever seen. Almost 2m diameter but only 1m tall. Branches now touching the ground (oops) on all sides. Picked around 50 large chillies and still have maybe 100+ left on the plant.
My jalapenos and bell peppers in this system are the biggest fruits I have ever had. I barely add any nutrients to the reservoir, so it must be the style of watering that they love. I can't wait to see the root system.
Autopot + tunnel house = winner.
This is so helpful, I shall check out autopot, have not heard of it
@@CharlesDowding1nodigthey are a bit overpriced. Could be better diy
Edit: over priced way over here in NZ where it ships from UK I think
Ah fine. I've just realised that it's a hydroponic system you are talking about. Interesting. Not my thing to be honest!
How hot is too hot. I have a green house but struggle to keep it cool during the day it gets so hot. I feel like my peppers and tomatoes should be better I think its too hot.
Love your videos and gardens. Always a joy to see a tour.
Cheers from Canada
run an extraction fan.
@@123Andersonev yes I can. I was asking about temp tho
@@123Andersonev also my greenhouse is not close to and does not have power.
Any powerless ideas to reduce heat?
Thank you, and I find that 40 to 45° is enough to cause problems especially for tomatoes which really prefer it below 30-35°C. On the other hand, aubergines and peppers and chilies don't mind the extra heat so maybe give a little extra water in super hot weather, at any time of day including the afternoon if you're around
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Thank you. I think I’m going to try some shade cloth this season to help with temps. I need to make the window bigger on the back end of greenhouse too, which should help with more air flow. I leave the door open all summer but the back window isn’t the biggest so I’m going to try making it bigger this year.
You’re right though, some extra water would probably benefit the plants. Staying on top of watering is hard sometimes lol I’m sure I don’t water enough. I need to get some irrigation set up some day too. Haha always something right. Thanks for responding
Hello there sir. I've planted 6 of my butternut squashes and 3 Cantaloupes on my no dig garden bed just this morning. I've transplanted the plants from the seed tray to the bed after they have been growing for 14 days (true leaves formation and all). But to my surprise, when I look at them this late afternoon (I transplant them at 6:30 when the sun barely goes up) two of them wilted, two of them have their leaves eaten by pumpkin beetles and two of them starting to show the sign of yellowing on their seed leaves. I don't know why this happens, I use compost and all. Any idea why?
For the ones that are wilting, it may not be catastrophic, and just a case of some root damage between seed tray and ground, combined with the hot afternoon sun, making them wild, and then by the evening, they should look fine again. Clearly they're in a week phase and I don't know how to prevent those beetles
I would normally grow them to a bigger size, 25 days old, so they are more resilient.
@@CharlesDowding1nodig I've noticed that you always grow melons in polytunnel or greenhouse, is growing melons outside a bad idea? Upon looking for references. Many gardeners also do the same thing. Not growing melons outside.
It's simply a question of average temperatures during the summer. Here it's 21°C 70°F and that's not warm enough for melons to succeed even though they might grow. If your summers are hotter than that, you can grow them outside
Chilli peppers....oh my the struggles I've had....its a fine line growing these in a UK climate. Seed early indoors , put in the greenhouse when warmer.. even so.. its so hit and miss