Tag Archives: chiles

Peppadews incoming!

Posted on November 7, 2026 by james

I hate getting to the end of the day and feeling that I have achieved nothing, so on Wednesday I fought my way through the lurgy (a quite nasty cough/cold) that my wife and daughter have very generously shared with … Continue reading →

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Done for the time being

Posted on November 7, 2026 by james

I think that’s as much harvesting as I can cope with for the moment. The next job is probably to remove the stripped tomato plants from the polytunnel and, feed them through the shredder and into the compost. Normally I’d … Continue reading →

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Stage Two complete

Posted on November 7, 2026 by james

I’ve picked all the jalapenos. I’ll be pickling them once I find a jar big enough to fit them in. Cayennes next, I think.

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No pilot’s licence yet

Posted on November 7, 2026 by james

The last two days have been a bit of a struggle, partly due to my BP issues and partly due to my abject failure at teaching myself to fly (that is, I completely failed to miss the ground) at the … Continue reading →

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Phwoooaaaar!

Posted on November 6, 2026 by james

Will you get a load of the cayennes on that?! Some time in September I try to sow lots of lettuces, mustards and other salad leaves that I then plant out in the polytunnel, ideally the day after I remove … Continue reading →

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Four courgettes and a pepper (or few)

Posted on October 11, 2026 by james

More peppers picked yesterday (and perhaps the last of this year’s yellow courgettes). From top to bottom, left to right: yellow Corno di Toro, Hungarian Black chile, Chocolate sweet pepper, red Corno di Toro (with a couple of other red … Continue reading →

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Holy hand grenades, Batman!

Posted on October 10, 2026 by james

This evening we took the pickled green jalapeños that I made last week for a test drive with chicken fajitas. Well, they’re rather more lively than I was expecting. I’ve never had my lips go numb from eating jalapeños before. … Continue reading →

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Nooo!

Posted on October 10, 2026 by james

A branch of one of my Jalapeño chiles snapped off completely, I assume under the load of all the chiles growing on it. Worse still, two of the fruit were ones I was intending to collect seed from, but they … Continue reading →

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Disaster!

Posted on September 27, 2026 by james

When I went to collect the harvest from the polytunnel today I discovered that one of the Jalapeño pepper plants had lost a limb! It had completely snapped off with its load of peppers including the two that I’d tagged … Continue reading →

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The name’s Piper. Peter Piper

Posted on September 27, 2026 by james

Sadly I don’t have a peck of these. They might last the year if I did. A fair bit of today (at least as far as I’m concerned given that I’m not spending as much time alive these days) was … Continue reading →

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