The highlights
- The hot and sweet classic Caribbean pepper in red, orange or yellow
- 150-350,000 on the Scoville scale
- Essential for jerk spiced dishes
- Compact plants ideal for growing in pots
Description
- The famous Jerk spice chilli, small but powerful! Scotch bonnets are red, orange or yellow chillies with a sweet, fruity flavour and a serious kick of heat
- Perfect for Caribbean dishes, but also great in hot sauce, salsa and tex mex food or for drying
- Grow in a greenhouse, on a sunny patio or in pots on the windowsill
- 150-350,000 Scoville rating – the Scoville scale measures the spiciness or pungency of chillies. The scale measures the amount of capsaicin (the chemical compound that causes spicy heat) in a pepper and assigns it a number rating in Scoville Heat Units
- Plant out after the first frosts and harvest at any colour from July to October
- Premium garden ready plants grown by vegetable experts on a family run farm in Lancashire and sent to you at the best possible time for planting
- Growing your own gives you healthy, fresh produce with a lower carbon plantprint than anything you can buy from a shop
- Easy to grow and care for – you should see your first chillies within 12-14 weeks
