With temperatures falling outside and snow forecast, chilli pepper season is starting indoors. December is the month for starting chilli peppers indoors from seed, especially the hotter varieties. Chilli peppers can grow for several years so the aim here is to nurse small plants along indoors until April or May (weather permitting) when they can …Read More about Chilli pepper season
Chilli Peppers
Moving indoors
With temperatures falling outdoors it is convenient there is so much to do indoors. Tomatoes and chilli peppers that were dehydrated from the summer crop can now be processed into xmas gifts. This is quite a lot of work so it is good these jobs could be moved from the summer busy time of harvesting …Read More about Moving indoors
Making chilli jam
There is nothing better on a rainy cold afternoon than to take one hour and make a batch of hot chilli pepper jam. At this time of the year there are fresh hot chilli peppers so with some basic kitchen ingredients and a set of jam jars, the gardener can become the chef for an …Read More about Making chilli jam
End of summer
Summer appears to have finished rather sharply this year, switching straight into winter weather. It is to be hoped this will be short term and then winter planting can get on. It is not ideal to plant winter crops in water logged ground. So while waiting for the weather to break it is back indoors …Read More about End of summer
Kitchen time
The traditional idea of a kitchen garden is to have an outdoor pantry full of fresh produce for using every day. This is correct but modern gardeners are just as interested in processing fresh produce for use in the down seasons when the pantry is not so full. With simple inexpensive kitchen gadgets available these …Read More about Kitchen time
Struggling with chilli peppers
It is annoying that the best specimens of chilli pepper this year are growing on a bedroom windowsill in the house. The weather so far this year has been a roller coaster of ups and downs. The month of May was the driest and warmest on record followed by a 10 degree plunge in temperatures …Read More about Struggling with chilli peppers