As someone who gets through a lot of chillies, I'd been curious about growing my own for a while, so in January I went and bought myself a grow-your-own kit. The kit itself was brilliant, fitted perfectly on my windowsill, and required nothing except water and time.

Initially not all that much seemed to be happening, I'm guessing because it wasn't a particularly warm winter, but once it got going the shoots really started appearing. There were around 10 seeds of each different type of chilli: numex, tabasco, jalapeno and habanero. The habanero were the slowest to germinate, and at this point are the slowest to flower as well. There are plenty of buds at the moment though so hopefully this mini-heatwave will be warm enough to encourage them to come out to play. The tabasco seems to be the most successful so far, although I only seem to be able to get 3-4 fruits per plant, despite having lots of flowers. The jalapenos have took longer, but now they're going they seem to be providing more fruit. The numex are going nicely, but aren't particularly large so far.

Have some pictures to make this post more colourful!

Unless I manage to get through all the fruits I guess I should learn how to pickle them next.