7 reasons to grow chilli plants in your garden

Chillies belong to spices group and it is used to make various meal. You can not even think of a Indian meal without using chilli as a spice. Many people also eat fresh chilli while they are having their meal. But did you ever try to grow chilli in your own garden? I think many people already did. But in case you do not belong those group of people then here is a list of 7 reasons for you to grow chilli plants.

I am also growing more than dozen of chilli plants and those plants are already producing chillies. So I experienced these reasons for every garden to grow chilli plants.

7 reasons! Yes, all these reasons are applicable to you if you are a gardener.

1. You use it every day

Chilli is such a vegetable/spice what everybody needs and everybody needs this almost every day. If you want to make an Indian meal then you have to use chilli in atleast one dish. So it is the most important spice to prepare an Indian meal. So if you love gardening then must grow this chilli plant.

2. All-time availability of chillies

You may need chilli when you are cooking. You may need it even when you are having your meal. Yes, Indian people enjoy eating raw chilli with various snack (cauliflower fritters, lettuce pakoda, Punjabi paneer pakoda, mooli pakoda, bitter gourd fritters, yummy gobi 65, crispy dal pakoda) as well as a meal. So if you have a chilli plant in your garden then it makes chilli available all time for having food.

3. High yield – Only a few plants are enough a family

If you have a healthy matured plant then you definitely know that a single plant produce plenty of chillies. So if you have 3-4 members in your family then you just need 6-8 plants. Then you never need to buy chillies from the garden.

4. You can grow it in pot/container/grow bag

You do not have backyard, then no problem because you can even grow this plant in pot or container or grow bag. That means you can grow this plant in your rooftop garden or balcony garden too.

5. Anybody can grow this plant

This plant needs very little care. If you are growing this in your backyard then probably you do not need to watering too. Weekly or twice a month applying liquid mustard cake fertilizer is enough for these plants. But, yes, the most common plants problem is leaf curl disease. So it needs regular application of pesticide.

I mostly apply organic pesticide like neem extracts water, garlic extracts water, turmeric extract water, 4-5 days old buttermilk etc. I apply these types of pesticide once a week. Another thing I do is in between these two organic/herbal pesticide application I also spray shampoo mixed chilled water on my chilli plants. But still, if I miss a few scheduled spray then leaves of chilli plants will turn into curly. So as per my own experiences, if you can apply pesticide regularly then you can easily grow these plants. You will hardly need to care about its fertilizer.

6. Opportunity to spend time with nature

Having chilli plants in your garden means all-time availability of fresh chillies. But it also give you an opportunity to spend time with nature. Particularly who live in flat and do not have space to build a garden they also grow one or two chilli plants at their balcony.

7. You love gardening

Last point is the most important and if this point is valid for you then you do to need to think about other reasons. Haha. Is this not true? I mean if you love gardening then you will definitely want to grow chillies without bothering about any other thing. I mean actually, everybody starts gardening with one or two chilli plants in vegetables/spice plants and marigold (genda phool)/ hibiscus in flowering plants. I think that now you will agree with me.

 

If you think that it will save money and that is why you should grow vegetables & fruits in your garden. Then probably you are not a true gardener.