The Potting Shed

[Tâf]

The larvae are not that damaging to semi mature plants, but they can decimate seedlings. Plus the bloody flies get on my tits in the greenhouse.

This trap was only up for a day.... I cut them in half and use one side at a time.

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This is why diatomaceous earth is good, it's tiny skeletons that shred them...

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Potted-on chillies for both my brothers.

The catmint seeds have sprouted at last (3 weeks!) as have the bush type chillies in the living room. The other chillies are now out in the greenhouse full time, so I'll save on indoor lighting a for a while.

[Tâf]

Stripped and topped more chillies for bushier growth, cleared and dug the sun beds, then planted out 80 bunches of Marigolds, then sprayed everything not slug and snail proof with chilli and garlic. I hope that will stop the local cats chewing on my Kiwi vine too.

[Tâf]

Mowed, edged and weeded the lawn.

Killed 21 Horsetail sprouts coming from next door.

The Aronia is full of baby fruit, the Kiwi is in flower, the grapevine is covered in flowerbuds, and the black grapevine has returned to life. 

[Tâf]

Potted on the last of the slow chillies. No real room for them but they needed to be moved up.

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The 2 8ft gojis didn't really like being in big pots, so I bit the bullet and dragged the pots out the back and planted them in a raised bed. It's going to ages to tie them all in now.

Surprisingly, for all the years they've been in the pots, they weren't pot bound at all.

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Gojis tied in and pruned, cut back the Salsify otherwise their seeds would be everywhere.

The chillies are all looking good. 

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Mowed the lawn, watered some plants. The grapes have already flowered...I didn't even notice!

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Just picked some raspberries from the bushes outside 

[El]

Raspberry muffins for tea

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I must have missed a few tiddler spuds when I dug the last lot up, cost a few haulms appeared.

I didn't earth them up as usual, but laid the haulms down and covered them up. When the tips got tall again, I laid them down and covered them up. Etcetera. They were eventually about 6ft to the side of where they started.

Blight struck, so I chopped them down. I just dug the harvest up... Red Duke of York, with only 2 slug-damaged.



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First pick of the year. Piment d'Espelette from an overwintered plant. All going to be made into powder. 451 gm

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Chilli harvest before the frost hits them. They are all looking good, especially a new cross that appeared out of nowhere that has chili heads screaming for seed. It's a very hot cross between a Bhut Jolokia and Piment d'Espelette that someone named Butt Splatt.

[Tâf]

Final big pick from the greenhouse. 1.85 kg making a total for the year of 2.8 kg, only the numerous tiny chiltepins to pick in the there now. And the lingering rocotos.

Then I have to harvest in the chilliarium.....

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