A few years ago our friend from Berlin Phil Harmony told us a fact that we didn’t know. He said that chillies and other peppers are perennials, that is the plants will last a few years if they’re kept out of the cold and frost. The plant comes from the tropics where there is no such thing as winter or if there is, their winters are nowhere as bad as ours.

Last year we did a swap of a comfrey plant and got a couple of pepper plants in return (here). One was an Apache Pepper (main picture) that we grew on the kitchen windowsill and a Pot Yellow (above and below) that went outside but sadly didn’t bring in over winter so it’s now gone to the big greenhouse in the sky. Both peppers were easy to grow and gave us some crazy hot chillies that were put to good use here. Pot Yellow grows into a nice plant as well and gives you a fair few hot fruits too.

The Apache pepper was kept indoors on the kitchen windowsill and is still with us now, has just flowered and the first fruits are starting to appear (main pic at the top). The only thing we did with the plant over the winter months was cut down on the watering and just watered it when the compost looked like it was drying out. More on overwintering chillies and peppers here.

And talking of Phil Harmony here’s a great free dub download from a few years ago called Dubnight Compilation Vol.3. compiled by Phil Harmony & Moshi Kamachi here. Download and dub out!