Chilli Up North Blog

As i’d mentioned in another post earlier, it was a busy weekend in the garden, as well as fixing the green house, i did a whole lot of other stuff, including planting my spuds (charlotte, nicola, kestril and maris piper, planted my onions in the cold frame, planting my goji berry bush, planting lots of [...]

Seelings are coming on well now,  my tom’s, courgettes and cucumbers will need potting on at the weekend as they are getting too big for the propagator. A few chillis have appeared but still waiting for most of them. here is a of a few of them Wikio Wikio

Woke up to find that a couple of chillis seeds have sprouted just over a week since planting them, hopefully the rest will follow suit,, black tomato seeds have germinated well and peas are also appearing in the conservatory and my cucumbers and toms will need planting on soon Wikio Wikio

Yesterdays cucumber seedlings have now got more leaves Wikio Wikio

woke this morning to find my first seeds have sproudted,  2 types of cucumbers, nice start to the day! Wikio Wikio

It’s that time of year again (just over a year since it last happened) when some little b*st*rds decide they have nothing better to do than throw stones at peoples greenhouses,  3 different panels this time and not as quite as bad as last time but very frustrating. I guess it could have been worse, [...]

Finally got time to sow my chilli seeds today, a bit later than usual but as the saying goes…better late than never. So far ive planted: explosive ember fisus blue orange habenero sweet pepper fish chilli violette cayenne golden cayenne satans kiss dorset naga peter pecker pepper chilli fuego mystery pepper hot portugal hidalgo i [...]

Well , i’ve just realised how far behind i am this year and ill have to get a shift on, i guess its the snow and cold combined with work and DIY thats put me behind as ive still got most of my to do list , to do. the good news is that the [...]

Yesterday i managed to get a few minutes to draw up my to do list so thought id share it with you, that way if i haven’t done something i said i would you can harrass me. They are not in any particular order but are as follows: Clean and fumigate the greenhouse and all [...]