Not had a great deal of time recently,
although I have started to re-dig some older beds.

Beans, Tomatoes and Habaneros

The tomatoes,habaneros and cucumbers
are doing well in the greenhouse.
The rabbits have finally given up attacking
the Italian beans which are flowering

July 2008

Things are growing well now
that the weather has picked up.

The Cheyenne plant has a couple
of chillies on it.

CHEYENNE
Species: Annuum
Origin: USA
Heat: Hot
This variety is often found in UK garden centres
and market gardens;its heavy fruiting compact
nature makes it ideal for growing on the
windowsill, in the greenhouse or a
sheltered patio. The plant can grow upto
18 inches in the right conditions and produces
a good crop of orange medium sized fruits
which are fantastic in Chile Con Carne.

June

Not a great deal has been going on at
the allotment, due to work on the house
taking up all my free time.
However there are loads of chillies
and tomatoes growing in the greenhouse.




I finally got round to collecting a couple
trailer loads of horse manure

Despite the best efforts of the local rabbits
the borlotto and runner beans are doing well



At the moment we're growing
Chillies,Peppers,Tomatoes,French beans,
Runner beans,Italian beans,Borlotto beans
Carrots,Parsnips,Brocolli,Cabbage
Cauliflower,Leek,Onion,Pak choi
Kohlrabi,Lettuce,Sweetcorn,Radish
Rocket,Red Orach,Turnips,Swede
Beetroot,Peas

Young chilli plants

Chilli plants that are growing in a heated
propagator.
Hopefully the weather will warm up soon and they
can be moved to the greenhouse

Thai Birdseye chillies



Chillies and a few tomato plants

Bella Gardening....

Aside from the Greenhouse, there's not
much worth photographing this time of
year.................

Digging through pics taken in late summer
I found this one of Bella checking on the
Dwarf Medusa plant.

The Greenhouse has been moved

Finally got the greenhouse moved,
onto a new paved base, with a
raised bed......



Now I just need to find time to build the staging,
re-fence the plot, dig over the beds and then
maybe get round to planning what to grow
next year.

Another Cayenne plant from work

Marcia's cayenne plant



Looks like there are quite a few green chillies
lurking in the background waiting to ripen

Not much going on at the moment,
The short cold summer hasn't helped
the chillies grow.



A bed of cayenne peppers with sprouts -
I don't even like sprouts............................

Phil's Mucho Nacho Plant

Another chilli plant grown by phil
from work.



A definate challenge to Jeremy's
cayenne plant.

West dean chilli festival

We went to this years West Dean Chilli Fiesta,
although I was too busy browsing all the stalls
to remember to take photos.

Here's a few quick shots grabbed in the glass houses

The Cayenne chilli challenge

Everyone at work was given a Cayenne
pepper seedling a couple of months ago.

The first pictures are coming in,
Jeremy is leading the way with the
first fruits.

Finally some produce

Beetroot, courgette,marrow, parsnips
and loads of runner beans.



Although no such success with
the butternut squash,cucumbers
and celery.

Despite the bad weather this year
the chilli plants have flowered, one
of the cayenne peppers below.

The Cayenne plants are growing well,
although more slowly than last year.

Just some Cos lettuces

I say some, as the little buggers
are everywhere..didn't expect all
the seeds to germinate...........

Progress so far

Compared to 1 year ago ........................

The Cayenne Plants have started growing

Cayenne plant

The back garden is getting crowded with mini greenhouses,

pots and soil.

Although not for much longer as the plants are nearly big enough

to be moved to the allotment.

Another use for chillies

A Jalapeno being used as a battery.
In this example copper wire and a steel nail are used.


You can get voltage just by probing the pepper with
a sensitive meter {from 0 to about 2 volts.}
Although you get about a half a volt, the current
is only about 2 to 4 milliamps.

One of the serfs working the land

This is one of my serfs working the land.



Look at the happy face, they are well treated.

Plot 2 is finally cleared

All ready for digging


Lee where's that rotavator?

Plot 2

Hopefully this weekend a rotavator will appear courtesy of Lee
and roar into action to finally get to grips with the overgrown
second plot.

Larry the lawn mower (don't ask) supplied by a friend a couple of weeks ago is still in the shed ready for it's first run on saturday.


Pics of smoke, petrol and machinery to follow shortly

Not as useful as the word for beer

The word for chillies across the world.
Afrikaans Brand rissie
Amharic Mit'mita Berbere
Arabic Fulful ahmar
Assami Jolokia
Bengali Morich
Brazilian (Portuguese) Dedo de Moca, Pimento vermelho
Burmese Nga yut thee, Nil thee
Chinese Chao tian jiao, Chang bing jiao
Croatian Paprika ljuta
Danish Spansk peber
Dutch Spaanse peper, Cayennepeper
English Cayenne pepper, Red pepper, Chillie
Finnish Chilipippuri
French Poivre rouge, Piment fort, Poivre de cayenne
German Cayen, Beissbeere Pfeffer, Chili pfeffer
Greek Piperies
Gujrati Mirchi
Hebrew Pilpelet hagina, Pilpel matok
Hindi Lal mirch, Achar
Hungarian Paprika
Indonesian Cabai
Italian Peperone, Peperoncino, Pimento
Japanese Togarashi
Kannada Manasina kayi
Laotian Mak phe kunsi
Macedonian Piperka
Malaysian Lada mira
Malayalam Mulagu
Marathi Mirchi
Mexican Cola de rata
Nahuatl Chilcozli, Chiltecpin
Nepalese Rato khursani
Peruvian Aji cereza
Polish Papryka
Portuguese Piri-piri, Pimento
Punjabi Lal-mircha
Romanian Ardei Iute
Russian Perec
Slovenian Sladka paprika
Spanish Pimenta de Cayena, Guindilla
Swahili Piri piri
Swedish Chilipeppar
Tagalog Sili berde
Tamil Mulagu
Telugu Mirapakaya
Thai Pisi hui
Turkish Biber
Urdu Lalmarach
Vietnamese Ot

Plan for 2007

This is the plan for 2007









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Although looking at it now seems quite ambitious
seeing as only 6 beds are dug - only another 20 to go!

Chillies harvested

Broccoli, Cabbage, Sprouts,Cauliflower & Celery are growing

The chilli plants have produced a lot of fruit with hundreds

more pods still ripening.

August

Not much activity in August as it was too hot..
The chillies have grown well and a new bed has
been dug for winter veg.