Show us your chilli plants!

[alex_m]

Here's mine. It's got 12 chilli babies on it this year.

My friend 'obtained' a cutting from one in the Eden Project in Cornwall, and this is a cutting from his. Not sure what type it is though, anyone?

They are starting to go red/brown after being green/white striped.

[RobArb]

if you'd of asked, 4 weeks ago i had 3 massive chilli plants growing in my kitchen window with some fair big chillies on, they got an infestation of some sort and lost all their leaves, they now are potted in my garden trying to recover

[alex_m]

oh crap! i would be devastated if that happened - these are the closest things i have to pets/children

[RobArb]

mine were like that at first, treated them better than the wife:lol:, in the end i couldn't control the infestation and the leaves had gone in a few days

 

will get pics up when it stops raining!

[RobRainford]

We've got some in our poly tunnel. 1000,000 scoville chills. I'm scared to use them!

[RobArb]

Pics of said devastated (but now hopefully recovering) chilli plants

 

Sent from Rob's GalaxySII

[alex_m]

poor things. the chilli's look ok though... wonder if they'll continue to grow ok..?

[RobArb]

there is very small green shoots coming through from the main stem, so i have hope:thumbup:

[alex_m]

not sure what to do with them once they're ready (apart from dearing mates to eat them whole!)

any good sauce recipes?

[RobArb]

i shove mine in my chilli con carne, its better with fresh chillies than chilli powder

 

i've also used that with bell peppers to make chilli marinades for chicken and lamb on BBQ's

 

i tend to make stuff up when it comes to recipes, with whats in my spice cupboard and other bits and bobs in the kitchen.

 

A good marinade i made the other week was:-

half a cup of coca cola

2 tbs tomato ketchup

2 whole fresh chillies, seed an all

1 red bell pepper

tsp allspice

4 cherry tomatoes

1/2 onion

1 garlic clove

splash of tobasco

splash of worcester

 

all mash up and whizzed together with a processor

 

was awesome on chicken legs:thumbup: