Today’s little harvest: a couple of tomatoes and jalapenos, a few pods of Bolivian rainbow and lots of cherry bombs. Still waiting for ripening of super hots while hoping for sunny Oct 😉
Author: Chilli farmer
What to do with un-ripened peppers?
So, 2020 was (still is) tough in many aspects, one of them being chilli growing. In our parts, there was a slow start with cold and rainy weather most of the time during May and June. As a result, many pepper plants from our garden have lots of un-ripened peppers. So what to do with […]
Tomato harvest continued
Our chillies still haven’t ripened enough but tomatoes, on the other hand, are “in the zone” and keep on giving 😉 Here we go, attaching daily batches of tomatoes from this week, straight outta garden. Also, it is quite a privilege of being able to go into your garden and cherry-pick most of the ingredients […]
Three shades of Carolina Reapers
Three shades of Carolina Reapers – super hot, red and gnarly, with a bumpy texture and small pointed devilish tail.
Tomato Harvest
Most of our chillies haven’t ripened enough and are still left on the branches to soak up all the late summer sun, but have a look at the tomato. Our last harvest from a couple of days ago. Huge and tasty 😉
Tomato house
Now in late August when mornings are becoming foggy and prolonged leaf wetness is ideal for downy mildew to appear and ruin late summer tomato harvest. It happened to us last year :-/ So we have decided to build a tomato house fending off the morning wetness and extending the growing season. 😉
Italian Cherry Bomb
Our Italian Cherry Bombs soaking up all the sun they get and finally starting to ripen. With 2,500-5,000 SHU they are not that hot, but nevertheless a perfect for stuffing with goats’ or any soft cheese – a great addition to a spicy late summer dinner 😉 #growyourown #cherrybomb #chilli
Bolivian Rainbow chili flower
Bolivian Rainbow chilli flower spotted. It is a stunningly beautiful plant with all the colours of a rainbow, all on one plant. But there is more,with 30-50k Scoville heat units, that’s four to twelve times hotter than a jalapeño, so these good looking ornamentals also pack a surprising punch 😉
A decent harvest
Here we go. A decent harvest during a very tricky season of 2020. Although chillies are still warming up, there are lots of other goodies becoming available to cherry-pick from the garden: onion, beans, tomato, parsley, radish, salad, cabbage, cauliflower, zucchini/courgette 👍
Snails and slugs
Snails and slugs are primarily pests of seedlings and herbaceous plants. In this rather cold and rainy season of 2020 which is a snail paradise, our chilli plants are being eaten and bitten all over the place :-/