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POT ON PEPPERS
Peppers and chillies are huge fun to grow. I particularly love growing spicy chillies with their often eccentric shapes and, of course, remarkable range of heat levels.
Chilli heat is registered using the Scoville Scale, which starts at zero for ordinary sweet peppers and tops out at 15 million for pure capsaicin, the compound behind the heat. Jalapeno peppers register around 5250 Scoville Units, while bird's eye chillies come in at 75,000 units. The current
