Home > Growing tips & recipes > Grow Buddies Subscription – January 4 min read 14.11.2025 Grow Buddies Subscription – January Welcome to your January growing guide!Here’s what’s in your box:Chilli Pepper Biquinho Red Microgreens Bull’s Blood BeetrootYour January Growing Challenge:Grow some (not so hot) chilli raindrops!Chilli Pepper Biquinho RedSowing infoAn early start can help increase your harvest as pepper plants can be slow to mature. Start under grow lights in January or late February without lights. Requires warmth to germinate and grow on (an unheated greenhouse will not be warm enough). When pepper plants reach about 20cm in height, pinch out the growing tip to encourage bushy growth. From pinching out time, feed weekly with a quarter strength organic feed.Growing infoContinue to pot on each time roots appear out of the drainage holes at the bottom of the pot until planting out after last frost. Peppers love heat, so will always perform best in the greenhouse or polytunnel.Blog – how to sow and grow chillies Microgreens Bull’s Blood BeetrootSowing infoVery easy to grow, simply sprinkle on the surface of moist compost, coir or even cotton wool in a shallow pot or tray without drainage holes. Place in a warm, light place such as a windowsill and keep moist but not waterlogged.Growing infoSprouts should appear in 6-10 days and be ready to harvest in less than 2 weeks. Harvest when shoots are 3-5 cm tall, cutting with scissors 1 cm above the root base. Sow every 2 weeks for a continuous supply.Blog – how to grow microgreens Meet the author Nelly Nelly works in the She Grows Veg marketing department and is an incredible cook! She's learning how to grow veg fast in her very own container garden. Her favourites so far are the Dwarf Sunflower called 'Sunspot' and our Dwarf Pea called 'Tom Thumb'. Previous Is it a Fruit or a Vegetable? Next Get Growing Subscription – January
