June 2011

A quick 2011 update

(Blurry pics taken on the phone)

Sweetcorn growing amongst the beans

Greenhouse plants - a few weeks ago

Beetroot, Carrots and a few lonely peas

Finally growing straight carrots

Loads of beans

As always more beans than is humanly possible to eat,

we're getting this many each week.

Runner beans, Purple beans (Italian marvel of Venice) 

& French Yellow beans

Melons!

After a slow start, the melons are growing

End of May 2010

All the beds are dug and the shed is up



Strawberry flowers

New plants

I've not had much time this year to get plants started,
although a few sweet pepper plants have germinated.

Chillies in France

One of 2007's chilli plants made it to France and
is producing chillies all year round!



*There you are Miranda's mum,
all correct now ;)

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.