Category Archives: Veg plot

First seed-sowing of the year!

Posted on January 11, 2026 by james

I planned to get all my sweet and chile peppers down today in the hope of giving them a good start early in the year so I collected them all together: From the top left I have: Cayenne chiles, home-saved … Continue reading →

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We’ll call that full, then

Posted on January 11, 2026 by james

Don’t think I’m going to be getting much more in this compost heap.

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Off the scale!

Posted on January 10, 2026 by james

Ok, not quite. I wish I could think of a practical way to extract this heat though, say until the heap cooled to about 50°C.

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This little chile lived all Winter

Posted on January 10, 2026 by james

A Hungarian Black, which oddly is not a mind-altering leaf crop, in Frankenstein’s greenhouse. This survived the entire Winter last year and is still going strong even now. Produced a nice crop of chiles, too 😀 Others nearby didn’t make … Continue reading →

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Compost temperature

Posted on January 10, 2026 by james

It’s ok if it’s not in the red, right?

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This is not one of Trump’s hands

Posted on January 10, 2026 by james

It is a normal human adult male hand. So pretty much completely the opposite 😀

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For candles?

Posted on January 9, 2026 by james

My wife had a load of burnt-out candles in glass pots, but rather than throw them away it struck me that I might be able to use them to keep frost off the greenhouse on cold nights. All I needed … Continue reading →

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My take on the “polycrub”

Posted on January 6, 2026 by james

I came across the polycrub concept a few years back. It’s not hard to find examples on the interwebs, but simply put it’s a very robust and better insulated version of a polytunnel, originally developed for use on Shetland as … Continue reading →

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These are not just logs…

Posted on January 6, 2026 by james

These are freshly-cut logs waiting to be impregnated with mushroom spawn. My first “vegetable”-growing experiment for this year. I have dowel spawn on order for Shiitake and Summer Oyster mushrooms which should arrive later this week. I can’t wait to … Continue reading →

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Seeds are arriving

Posted on January 2, 2026 by james

Our New Year’s Eve post saw the arrival of the majority of the seeds for vegetables that I want to grow this year. As my vegetable plot expands (pretty much every year, it seems 🙂 I’m finding that I need … Continue reading →

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