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 😉
Chilli Garden
The Chilli Garden category provides updates from our garden, sharing insights and experiences. Discover best practices, DIY projects, and advices to help your green chilli space flourish.
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
The Italian Cherry Bomb pepper, much like the standard Cherry Bomb pepper, is a small, round chili pepper known for its mild heat and sweet, juicy flavor. It is commonly used in Italian cuisine, particularly for pickling, stuffing, or adding to sauces and salads. The Italian Cherry Bomb pepper belongs to the species Capsicum annuum, […]
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 :-/ These creatures primarily target seedlings and herbaceous plants, often causing significant damage to your chilli garden. Protecting […]
The First Harvest of 2020
Here we go, harvesting of potatoes and beans is starting gradually, while chillies will have to wait lots of additional weeks. Must admit that 2020 season is tough :/
Chilli peppers hit the dirt
The current batch of chilli peppers finally hit the dirt while the next one already chilling on the sidelines and getting ready to join.
Chilli Peppers Getting Ready to go Into the Dirt
Next batch of chilli peppers waiting on the sidelines and getting ready to go into the dirt. As spring approaches, we’re is gearing up for a new season of chilli pepper planting. Our seedlings are thriving in their pots, ready for transplantation into the prepared garden beds. We’ve enriched the soil with compost, ensuring it’s […]
The first chilli flowers in 2020
Chilli pepper season begins. Our over-wintered Carolina reapers began to bloom rendering first chilli flowers in 2020.