Should I plant chili peppers in front of my house?

For every Vietnamese family, chili is probably too familiar, especially in food processing, it seems to become an indispensable spice. Chili is commonly used as a spice to marinate dishes, make dipping sauces, cook with foods to enhance flavor and stimulate taste buds...

Not only chili peppers, but chili leaves are also edible and bring many health benefits.

Chili leaves are slightly sweet, slightly bitter, have a strong aroma like spicy but not spicy. Many people use chili leaves to cook soup with shrimp and meat to help nourish the body, in addition, this dish is also beneficial for diabetic patients. Soup cooked from chili leaves has a mild spicy taste, slightly bitter.

In Vietnam there are many types of chili: chili pepper, chili pepper, chili pepper, buffalo chili pepper, chili pepper...

Nowadays, chili has become one of the popular ornamental plants to help decorate the house more lively. Chili is usually grown as ornamental chili. Ornamental chili also has many types and many different colors.

Ornamental peppers originate from the tropical regions of America, belonging to the Solanaceae family, genus Capsicum. Usually, the plant is 30 - 60 cm tall, divided into many branches. Ornamental pepper flowers are white, growing singly in the leaf axils. Ornamental pepper fruits are shaped like fingers or spherical, and juicy.

Currently on the market there are many different varieties of ornamental peppers, each with its own characteristics.

According to Feng Shui, although chili peppers are spicy, they do not contain the bitterness in life as many people mistakenly believe. On the contrary, the image of plump chili peppers symbolizes wealth, luck and healthy energy.

In addition, according to folklore, chili also has the meaning of exorcising evil spirits, bringing peace and prosperity to the homeowner.

With the positive meanings that chili plants bring in feng shui, indoor or in front of the house is an ideal choice to plant and display a chili plant. They can both improve the landscape, aesthetics, purify the air and bring a fresher source of energy.

Chili peppers thrive in sunny environments. Therefore, they are more suitable for planting in front of the house, in the garden, on the balcony, or on the terrace.

If you want to grow it indoors, you can grow it in a small pot, place it next to a window, or let the plant sit out in the sun for a few hours every day so that it can grow normally.