It would seem for overwintering chilies, pruning is the way to go.

Chili plants – plant which was pruned on right
In an earlier post, I described how I wanted to check whether pruning my chili plants was a good or bad idea. I pruned one and left the other unattended. I wasn’t able to find any [...]

Bringing two chili plants together after a 6 month separation shows a remarkable difference in progress. As if to further punish the weaker of the two plants, I pruned it right down to encourage some new growth:

After much googling, forum posting, book reading and general conjecture from asking around, I found that the results were [...]

Taking stock of the seeds I planted 9 days ago, already there are varying degrees of progress.

I had a bit of a rookie scare with white mold (which I now know was in fact a fungus) on the lettuce seedlings but thanks to the folks over at the GardenWeb forums my concerns were allayed.
Here is [...]