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Are you hotter than Charlie Dimmock? Spicier than Alan Titchmarch? You could be our Chilli Expert!

Red Hot Chilli Peppers

We want to create a series of videos that showcase the joys of growing chillies in a really fun way and we want one of you to be their star. The series will start with a demonstration of how to plant your seeds and then move into the fun and games of pollination, insect defence and harvesting.

We’re looking for someone with a quirky sense of humour and passion for growing chillies to help us make this series.

To apply for this great role simply film yourself (on your mobile phone, digital camera or whatever other format you’ve got access to) doing something that brings your chilli passion to life and upload it to our Facebook page with a short paragraph to convince us that you are the next Don Monty Don.

We will choose our favourite best applicants and set them to a public vote. The winner of which will be rewarded with a Flip video camera, chilli growing tuition, a free meal at Wahaca and the stage to be a star. But don’t delay, get filming now – to fit in with the chilli growing season, we need your entries by 1st June.

Beuatiful image is from ianduffy on Flickr via Creative Commons.

For full terms and conditions please email us at loswahacos@wahaca.co.uk

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If a picture’s worth a thousand words, how many do we get for our flickr group?

As you well know, we love to hear what you think of Wahaca, but recently some of you have been going the extra mile and sharing your Wahaca photos on-line – Extra points for you, well done. 

To make it even easier to share your photographic masterpieces, we’ve set up a Flickr group that allows anyone who has any Wahaca related photos to upload them to one place for us all to marvel at.  Why don’t you have a look and get uploading some of your own shots either of you having a great old time in the restaurant, or enjoying the wonders of growing some of our chilli seeds?

Here’s a selection of recent uploads that we love.  Hats off to you, you make us look wonderful.

Created with Admarket’s flickrSLiDR.

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Contributor Competitions, Guerilla Chilli Growing, What's Happening

The little chilli growing competiton heats up

You might have seen our post launching the little chilli growing competition to all the Canary Wharfers who picked up one of our chilli growing kits, encouraging them to send in photos of how they are getting on.

Well, we’re delighted to say that the responses have already started coming in and it seems that they’re quite a green fingered lot.

Although the Chilli Spy was initially dubious about the actual size of their shoots, Jo and Soph from Morgan Stanley look to be having some great success, with at least 30mm of growth.

We wonder what their secret is. Any tips that you want to share guys?

Over at Barclays Capital the competition is really hotting up, so much so that Neil has applied some real science to his seedlings. He’s created a mini greenhouse to maximise the light and apparently it’s helped his chillies shoot into the lead.

Neil told us that it was so simple to do, and it really paid dividends. Here’s his helpful guide:

1. Take a two litre bottle of water.
2. Cut the bottle in half lengthways (empty the bottle first!).
3. Take this semi-circular section and cut it to the width of your chilli pot.
4. Push the bottle greenhouse into the sides of your pot to cover the chilli seedlings (remember to leave space for air to get in).

We love it!

So if you’re a wannabe Titchmarsh who’s picked up one of our pots, and are just praying for the day that you see your first signs of life through the soil, get in touch and let us know how you’re getting on. Send your story along with some pictures of how you’re getting on to loswahacos@wahaca.co.uk and you’ll be in with the chance of winning a meal for 6 at Wahaca.

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The little chilli growing competition…

To all those lucky people in Canary Wharf who received one of these lovely little pots…

We want you to put together a special guide on how to grow your chillies – whether your secret trick is dancing, singing, hugging or that special concoction of vitamins that you’ve been giving your plant.

Please send through photos (to loswahacos@wahaca.co.uk) along with your commentary showing the whole development of your chilli growing and your advice for everyone else out there wanting to grow chillies. The winner will get a free dinner at Wahaca for up to 6 people. It can be funny, very serious or slightly bizarre, we don’t mind as long as it gets a mighty fine chilli plant to hold up as an example to all the fellow Wharf chilli growers! All entries (within reason) will be put on our blog.

Send your entries through by the end of January and we’ll get judging. Can’t wait to see what the Wharfers have been up to!

In the meantime, remember to bring your chilli pot in this January (with the pink “Little chilli give away” sign) and show us how your going for that free pot of guacamole & chips.

(Don’t worry you may not have any chillies by the end of January but you won’t be far off and will have done very well looking after your plant through its early days).

Either send us pictures of your chilli plants via email to loswahacos@wahaca.co.uk or add them to our Flickr group

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