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Tag Archives: peppers

'Ace' sweet peppers starting to turn red

The time is (nearly) Ripe

06/08/2018by wdouglas14 6 Comments

I’ve a very interesting tomato bed on the go this season: two plants each of Santorange, Aviditas and the blight-resistant Crimson Crush, each a first-time grow for me. I bought […]

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Growing, Seeds

Dessication Situation

03/10/2017by wdouglas14 2 Comments

It’s all too easy to see growing your own vegetables through rose-coloured glasses. But home grown products easily can turn out underwhelming: awkwardly-shaped, tough and – worst of all – […]

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Drying, Growing, Own recipes, Uncategorized

Finding Flavours

02/07/2017by wdouglas14 2 Comments

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 […]

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Drying, Growing, Own recipes, Uncategorized

Stand by your beds!

24/04/2017by wdouglas14 10 Comments

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 […]

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Growing, Seeds, Soil

Colourful finales

15/11/2015by wdouglas14 2 Comments

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 […]

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Growing, Public recipes

Wet and Drying

01/11/2015by wdouglas14 2 Comments

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 […]

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Drying, Growing
Summer salad colours

Red Hot

23/08/2015by wdouglas14 Leave a comment

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 […]

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Growing, Own recipes
First sowings of 2015, covered with vermiculite

It’s sow time

01/02/2015by wdouglas14 Leave a comment

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 […]

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Preparation, Seeds
Chillies and peppers

Proper Peppers

27/09/2014by wdouglas14 Leave a comment

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 […]

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Variety of veg seedlings

Seeing seedlings

09/03/2014by wdouglas14 Leave a comment

These are my first seedlings coming along, five weeks after planting.  They’ve been a little slow to be honest, which I’m sure is due to low light levels. They’re near […]

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