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The last couple of years I have been growing Italian white beans, which look like Butterbeans, with some success. Great beans for putting in a chilli and excellent in my Chicken, Chorizo and bean casserole. You can get them from Franchi Seeds the variety is Fagiolo di Spagna, get in there !

Currently I have some Jalapeno's setting fruit and an overwintered Aji Pickled Frog which has produced a stupendous amount of small fruit which are growing nicely. I have a few Bird's Eye's Chillies that are doing well but have yet to flower as they tend to be a later variety, not expecting many...

My overwintered Jalapeno's are slowly waking with a few small green shoots showing. Looks like my Goats Horn hasn't survived the winter though which is a pity as it was very prolific last year. How's everyone else doing ?

Looks like we have a confirmed Spring at last ! Sown some Scotch Bonnets and some beef Tomato seed I picked up from Seedy Sunday, Coeur de Boeuf, Beef Tomatoes. Looks like the Jalapeno's have survived, they still have green stems and I'm hoping that there will be a few leaves appearing soon. The...

Have held back from planting anything yet as I'm afraid of a cold snap. Have managed to overwinter 2 reasonable sized and 3 small Bird's eye Chilli plants plus about 6 Jalopeno plants. Will hang back a couple of weeks before planting my other varieties.

I'm off to Seedy Sunday at the Corn Exchange this morning. I won't be hunting chilli seeds though, I do have 4 types on the go each year and that is enough. I do fancy trying some Beef Tomatoes if they have a nice old variety.

I think that cutting a chilli plant in to a Bonsai is just downright cruel, plus you are going to reduce your crop considerably.

I think that you can get 2-4 years out of them with luck. Each year it's best to put the plant in to a slightly larger pot with about 1/2-1 " of fresh John Innes 2 or 3 . Yields should get good by year 2 and should remain good til the end.

That can happen if you feed with too much nitrogen, however, if you cut them back and over wintered them and fed them with a more specialist flower/fruit feed you should get fruit. It's Potassium and a bit of Potash that you need to feed them with. But don't give up.

I managed to keep a Goat's Horn chilli alive over winter last year and a sweet pepper. You have to cut back the plant but still give a little water and they will survive in acold greenhouse or an outhouse/conservatory. this year its looking really good, so far managed to keep two Birds Eye...