Finding Flavours
This is that phase of the vegetable growing year when all the hard work seems to be done: digging over and clearing ground at the end of winter and sowing […]
Tag Archives: peppers
Stand by your beds!
With warnings of icy weather next week, today was all about pressing ahead with outdoor plantings but adding some protection for the vulnerable items which are already growing. With my 2017 […]
Colourful finales
The UK seems to have all the year’s weather seasons going on within the same week at the moment. It makes vegetable gardening ‘interesting’ to say the least. Splashing about […]
Wet and Drying
How it must look to my neighbours is anybody’s guess. On weekday evenings I can frequently be found out in the garden in complete darkness, fumbling about with a flashlight […]
Red Hot
The many shades of green which dominate the vegetable garden are beginning to be punctuated by vivid bursts of red. Tomatoes, chillies and sweet peppers alike are ripening, their scarlet […]
It’s sow time
The barren rocky landscape above is a close-up of my first sowings of 2015. Today in these tiny modules I’ve sown chillis and peppers, which need the longest season possible here […]
Proper Peppers
The sweet peppers and chillies are mainly all ripe now. This year we’ve grown Early Jalapeño and Portugal Hot chillies, with Orange Bell sweet peppers. Above is a photo I […]
