For lovers of spicy food, cayenne peppers are the perfect plant to grow at home. They can be picked and eaten raw or dried, or cooked into a hot sauce. Most important? Ensuring they're ripe before ...

Growing chilli pepper plants at home is an exciting journey that rewards you ... If you’re new to gardening, consider starting with easier varieties like the cayenne pepper or jalapeño. If you’re ...

There are many different types of chilli, from the small birds eye to the cayenne and the serrano. Chilli plants are grown as seedlings and planted out into mounded beds, generally with mulch and drip ...

Spices: chilli This image shows red chilli peppers drying in the sun in Bhutan. These are the seed pods of the tropical plant Capsicum frutescens. The pods are ground to produce red cayenne pepper and ...

A group of chilli and cayenne peppers. They are upright, bushy annuals or short-lived perennials. The small white flowers are followed by smaller, slender, hot edible fruit usually ripening from green ...