We sowed a few varieties of peppers earlier in the year and we thought we'd share an update on where we're at with a couple of those. A further update on other varieties to come! These are the Vampire peppers, a variety we haven't tried before, but known for its purple foliage and stems. Well... Continue Reading →
Pricking out our Vampire peppers
After a few weeks in their cell trays, the Vampire peppers were ready to be potted up. These went into multipurpose compost in 3" square pots. We filled each pot, gently compressing the compost as we filled it so there weren't any air gaps for when the pepper plant was potted on. Next up, we... Continue Reading →
An update on 2022 progress so far
Over the past couple of weeks, we've been sowing a number of different seeds. Therefore, we thought we'd provide an update on where they're all at now. First up, we have the Tasty King cucumbers. They're growing on quite well in their 3" pots and are starting to form their first true leaves. As we... Continue Reading →
The peppers needed pricking out
Last weekend, some of our peppers needed pricking out. For those of you totally new to growing, "pricking out" is the term used for transplanting recently germinated seedlings into their first pot or cell tray. After this, it is typically referred to as "potting on" or "planting out" depending on whether you're upgrading the plant's... Continue Reading →
A few lessons learned in 2021
Although overall we were really pleased with how our little garden grew for us last year, but this post is focused on some of our learnings from the 2021 growing season. We'll come on to celebrate some of our favourite bits in a future post. Our first one relates to peppers. Although we've just about... Continue Reading →
Our first seed sowing of 2022…peppers!
It's always exciting to start sowing seeds for the new year, and as we've said before, peppers take a fair while to grow, so they're our first! This year we had planned to focus on sweet peppers rather than chillies - although we like the odd chilli in a chill con carne or curry or... Continue Reading →
Tapas Tuesdays
We really like tapas, and are always finding an excuse to have it. But what better excuse than your own homegrown padrons! We tried growing padrons last year, but it was a bit hit and miss whether you got a hot one or a mild one which made the whole experience a bit more like... Continue Reading →
Pepper pick-me-up
We've had our sweet peppers and chillies growing on in the greenhouse, but it was time to give them some attention as they were starting to get quite tall. There wasn't enough space in the greenhouse to keep them all in there, so a few plants have now been moved outside, but the remainder have... Continue Reading →
Latest progress in the greenhouse
As well as the tomatoes, we also have some cucumbers and peppers growing in the greenhouse. And we have our first pepper, Redskin formed. The rest of the plants all have plenty of flowers on, but we haven't found any more peppers that have formed yet. We are keeping our eyes peeled though! The Striped... Continue Reading →
Courgette and pepper update
It was time to start potting up our second sowing of courgettes and some peppers into their lifetime pots last weekend. We've got a couple of new varieties of courgettes we're trying here: Eight Ball, Astia and Black Forest. They all produce slightly different fruit shapes, sizes and colours, but are all designed for growing... Continue Reading →