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Description

A new way to grow fresh chilli peppers in your garden! Ready-planted hanging baskets turn unused space into a fiery food feature. Each basket arrives to you packed with the award-winning 'Basket of Fire' variety, a compact, bushy chilli pepper that produces masses of hot fruits from summer into autumn.

It carries the RHS Award of Garden Merit for reliability and heavy cropping, continuing to produce when many others slow down. These baskets cascade attractively while delivering serious flavour at roughly 80,000 SHU.

The colour progression alone creates a show, as fruits ripen through dramatic shades before finishing red. It is decorative and delicious in equal measure.

Remove all the hassle from your grow this year! Just hang, water and enjoy an eye level harvest that looks spectacular and tastes even better.

Supplied as a pair of pre-planted, 25cm red plastic baskets, ready to hang on arrival.

Top Tips

Harvest little and often. The more you pick, the more the plant responds by producing fresh new chillies. Keep feeding, keep picking, and these baskets will reward you with a fiery display for months.

Care Information

On Arrival: Unpack your baskets straight away and remove all packaging. Check the compost feels moist. If it is dry, water thoroughly until it runs from the base. Allow to drain before hanging. Do not leave standing in water. Give plants a few days in a sheltered spot to settle after transit.
Where To Hang: Choose a bright, sunny position. Chillies love warmth and light. A south or west facing wall, fence or pergola is ideal. Shelter from strong winds, which can dry baskets quickly and damage growth. The warmer the position, the heavier the crop.
How To Care For Your Baskets: Water little and often in warm weather. Hanging baskets dry out faster than pots. In hot spells, daily watering may be needed. Feed weekly with a high potash liquid fertiliser once flowering starts to encourage continuous fruiting. Remove any damaged foliage to keep plants healthy and productive.
How To Harvest: Pick chillies regularly once they reach their final red stage for maximum heat and flavour. Use scissors or secateurs rather than pulling. Frequent harvesting encourages more flowers and more fruit, extending the cropping season well into autumn.

Delivery Information

Our experienced team at the nursery will always carefully package and send your plants nursery fresh in the perfect condition to thrive once you receive and plant them. Although most plants are extremely tough and will not be affected by all but the most extreme of weather conditions, we always avoid dispatching the most perishable plants if extreme frosts or heat is forecast. We also avoid dispatching orders over Bank Holiday weekends.

Please allow us 3-5 working days to dispatch your order. If you have ordered a 'pre-order' item, these will be sent out as soon as possible after the quoted dispatch date and we generally ship your entire order with any pre-ordered items. Once your order has been dispatched, we will send you an email with details on how you can track it.

We send most of our orders via a fully tracked courier service with Yodel. We will send you a tracking link as soon as your order has been dispatched. To avoid perishable items being stuck at depots and deteriorating, we will not require a signature on delivery, and we ask out couriers to leave your item in a safe place ad your delivery address.

*Please note, once your item has been delivered, we cannot be held responsible for loss or theft from your delivery address. If you have delivery instruction and require our courier to leave your item in a specific place, please let us know - there is an option to leave a message for the courier at the checkout.

For smaller and single-item orders, we may send these via the post with Royal Mail - Tracking will not be available for orders sent via this method.

**Please note, we cannot guarantee delivery on a certain day or time. Delivery to outlying postcode areas may take 1-2 days longer, dependent on your location.

For all orders, a small delivery fee of £4.99 will be charged or spend over £49.99 for FREE Delivery!

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