If like me you are a lover of chilli but hate having your head ‘blown off’ by a rogue pod or seed read on.
Our featured producers are Jason and Steve, founders of the South Devon Chilli Farm. They been growing chillies since 2003 and now grow over 10,000 chilli plants every year, harvesting tonnes of fresh chillies. They are sold fresh or used in their range of chilli sauces, preserves and chilli chocolate. The business now has up to 8 ‘hot’ staff kept busy all year.
You can visit the farm and shop all year and wander among the fruiting chilli plants, sample all of the sauces, preserves and chocolate made on the farm and take away fresh chillies, chilli seedlings, plants and seeds (during the growing season).
Or you can buy fresh chillis and sauces from Jason and Steve in our MarketPlace or, next year, buy some seeds, also in MarketPlace, and grow your own, as I have.
Some of my lucky friends have been given chilli plants and I will be using my crop, together with a pack of a hotter variety, to make up chilli oil, filling some arty bottles with dried chillis, herbs and rape seed oil from the 5 litre can I always have in stock. Great Christmas presents!
Those Chilli’s look yummy. I can recommend having your own Chilli plant, as the flavour is so much better than shop bought chilli. Don’t over feed them though, I have caused the demise of more than one plant in an attempt to boost yield!
At Marlow’s Bis-Kits we are currently working on a Chilli & Chocolate Chunk flavour…. watch this space!
Hi, nice to see and know of your hard work in the farm to produce the chillies. I would like to start a farm for possible export. What would be your advice for a beginner like me? never grown them before.
I appreciate your feedback.