summer varieties of heat-loving plants for 2018

You may recall me mentioning that I’m determined to get a head start on seedling raising for summer and have produced large plants by Labour weekend.  I’ve therefore already started sowing seeds for heat-loving plants such as capsicums, chillies, eggplants and tomatoes under cover.  

Incase other gardeners are curious about the varieties I have decided to grow this summer, I have decided to set out a list of what I have sowed so far here.  As many of you will notice, some of these varieties were on my list of top performing veggies in the summer garden, which you can read in this post here.
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Capsicums
Alma Paprika – Kings Seeds
Chinese Giant – Kings Seeds
Colour Salad Selection – Yates
Cornos Red – Kings Seeds
Double Up F1 Hybrid – Egmont Seeds
Dulce Espana – Kings Seeds
Jingle Bells – McGregors
Mama Mia Gialla – Kings Seeds
Mama Mia Rosso – Kings Seeds
Muscato F1 – Kings Seeds
Palladio F1 Hybrid – Egmont Seeds
 
Hot chillies
Arapaho (Cayenne) – Egmont Seeds
Bird’s Eye – Egmont Seeds
Cayenne Seed Mat – McGregors
Jalapeno Early – Kings Seeds
Red Scorpian – Kings Seeds
Sky Hot – Kings Seeds
Thai Super Chilli F1 – Kings Seeds
 
Sweet chillies
Lombaro – Franchi Seeds
Long sweet red chilli – Seeds given by Cesare Stella
Topepo Rosso – Franchi Seeds
Sweet Banana - McGregors
 
Eggplants
Asian Bride F1 – Kings Seeds
Dok – Kings Seeds
Florence Round Purple – Kings Seeds
Ping Tung – Egmont Seeds
Tsakoniki – Kings Seeds
 
Tomatoes
Big Beef F1 – Oderings
Big Beef- Yates
Big Beef F1 – Egmont Seeds
Big Boy F1 – Egmont Seeds
Black Krim – McGregors
Chocolate Sprinkles F1 Hybrid – Egmont Seeds
Costoluto Fiorentino – Franchi Seeds
Dr Walters Special – Egmont Seeds
Dwarf Maja Seed Mat – McGregors
Gardener’s Delight – Kings Seeds
Heirloom Marriage Big Brandy – Egmont Seeds
Heirloom Marriage Genuwine – Egmont Seeds
Heirloom Mix – McGregors
Heirloom Red Pear – Egmont Seeds
Heirloom Yellow Pear – Egmont Seeds
Italian Dwarf Romadore F1 Hybrid – Oderings
Jaune Flamme – Kings Seeds
Lady Bug F1 – Kings Seeds
Moneymaker – Egmont Seeds
Mortgage Lifter – Yates
Oaxacan Jewel – Kings Seeds
Principe Borghese – Franchi Seeds
Rapunzel F1 Hybrid – Egmont Seeds
Red Cherry – Franchi Seeds
San Marzano Redorta – Franchi Seeds
Tumbling Tom Red F1 Hybrid – Egmont Seeds
Tumbling Tom Yellow F1 Hybrid – Egmont Seeds
 
I still have to sow the marvellous chilli Piccante Calabrese from Franchi seeds.  I haven’t done so yet because I ran out of room on my heat pads!