Chillies

Grow gentle warmth, a little pep, with one packet each of Caloro, Cherry Bomb & Cyklon

Add a little heat and intensity to your dishes with one packet each of Fresno, Hungarian Hot Yellow Wax & Prairie Fire

Considered to be milder flavoured, these meaty chillies are large (being 15-20 cm long) and produced on a compact plant that will grow to about 60cm in height. Your first chillies will be ready for picking in about 12 weeks. Price for 10 seeds

Explosive heat packed into each little chilli: only 1-2cm long yet 100,000 - 225,000 Scoville. These do need a long growing season so it is best to start the seeds early. Before the plants flower you can prune to reduce height and give a bushier plant. The chillies have thin walls and ripen from green through orange to red. Phew! Price for 10 seeds

Reaching about 13cm long and slim at 2cm thick these are chillies to pack a burst of heat in sauces and casseroles. Each one is a bit wrinkled and thin skinned and thus ideal for drying. The plants are compact (60cm tall) yet produce in abundance. Hot, hot but not too hot! Price for 10 seeds

Sitting on the warm end of mild (2500-5000 scoville) you will discover that these fleshy fruits, ripening to red, will reward you with a good amount of heat without burning your mouth: try them in a salad.  Each chilli can grow up to 15cm long and be slightly curved.  They hail from Poland where they are often dried and ground to make paprika.

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Price for 10 seeds 

These little crackers will not take up lots of space, the plants grow to 60cm in height, but the chilies will have a big impact. You will have chilies at every colour stage between creamy white through yellow, purple, orange and finally deep red. They retain their fruity flavour while gathering heat as time goes on: between 50,000 and 100,000 scoville units. Price for 10 seeds

This lovely curved chilli, growing 4-12cm long, comes from northern Spain. Pick it green for the mildest flavour, as it matures it will be more pungent but even when fully ripe it remains at a medium heat with a sweet flavour – try this fried with garlic, gorgeous. Price for 10 seeds.

One of the best choices to grow in pots as the plants develop into an attractive shape with lots of branches to show off your chilli crop.  This AGM winning variety is hot, 30000-70000 SHU, and can be used fresh but also dries extremely well and makes tongue-tingling chilli powder!

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Hot and rich flavoured really funky fruits.  Some describe them as upside down mushrooms, others as resembling patty pan squashes, I think they look like weird bell peppers but make no mistake these have heat! Sturdy productive plants, compact and suitable for growing in pots.  Definitely a talking point.

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A welcome return for unassuming this small green pepper which is a Spanish culinary delight.  Traditionally they are pan fried in olive oil with a little sea salt and served with beer, alternatively add them to a stir fry and play Spanish roulette as every so often Padron will produce amongst its mild chillies a hot one that is indistinguishable until eaten! "Os pementos de Padrón, uns pican e outros non" (Galician for "Padrón peppers, some are hot and some are not").                                                              

Price for 10 seeds. 

As the name suggests this is a very hot chilli. It produces a mass of long thin pointed pods that mature from green to red. Price for 10 seeds

Bridging the gap between medium to hot Fresno is a versatile choice. Whilst green add them to sauces, dips, casseroles, soups and so on when they add less heat and lots of flavour. Maturing from dark green to red, about 90 days or so from transplanting, they will give you more heat as time goes on. The plants are shorter than many others and upright, the fruits are conical and pungent. AGM winner. Price for 10 seeds.