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Gardening 2008

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Well this weekend my eldest lad entered the local horticultural show and low and behold he actually won his group and also got a cup for best junior entry. He had to display three of his chosen 3 items. So he chose 3 cherry tomatoes, 3 runner beans and 3 potatoes. All carefully picked for the same size and shape.

Have to say I was very impressed, so I may be entering next year!
 
I just bought me a Cayenne Pepper plant.
Now I dont really do gardening stuff, except cut the grass, but I thought I'd have a go at this.

It already has some peppers. One is about 6 inches and nice and red and the others vary in size but are all green.

I'm going to take the red one off, dry it, mash it up and use it in some oil I think.

Anyone else grow peppers? Any tips? I've put it in between my house and shed, out of the wind. It gets some sun there, but does it need sun all day long? And will I have to bring him in in the winter?
 
A few of us grow chillies of various kinds. The bestadvice is to grow them in pots on a sunny windowsill. Frost will kill them but if you are growing outdoors find somewhere as sunny as possible. Otherwise just treat them as tomatoes.
 
I grow chillis and peppers.

At the moment they are still quite small because of the lack of sun and heat. But they are getting there.

I tried to grow Scotch Bonnets but had no luck at all. At the moment i have Cayenne, Jalapenos, Tokyo Hot and my Habanero's are looking pretty good. I've been told they pack quite a punch.

I've got my Chillis high up in my green house. The slugs get them otherwise. They need as much sunlight as possible. Also use a small amount of tomato feed once or twice a week.

Best time to start growing is Mid april to early May for a good fruit around end of August to sept. Its been a crap season because of the lack of sunlight where i live.
 
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low light levels have delayed ripening but my chillies are good this year, had one at breakfast with some tomatoes from the greenhouse. Onions are ok, spuds were reasonable, toms ripening up a treat now got 8lb on Sunday, runners doing the biz now too. Cucumbers aren't bad, grew a shorter variety this year and they are coming thick and fast now.
 
gemarriott said:
low light levels have delayed ripening but my chillies are good this year, had one at breakfast with some tomatoes from the greenhouse. Onions are ok, spuds were reasonable, toms ripening up a treat now got 8lb on Sunday, runners doing the biz now too. Cucumbers aren't bad, grew a shorter variety this year and they are coming thick and fast now.
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My cherry toms have been excellent this year. My cucumbers not so good. My leeks are looking good to.

My potatoes were a utter waste of time. I tried to grow Anya's. My dog ate all my strawberries and rasberries too the little b@stard.
 
I have an old coal store next to my shed. Its walled on 3 sides and gets a fair bit of sun without the wind.
When it starts getting colder I'll bring him in then and stick him in my dining room window. South facing with a radiator below it.

I saw something on the net about hanging your chillis on a line to dry em out.
Should this be outside or inside?

Cheers fellas:PDT_Xtremez_19:
 
MrMasher said:
I have an old coal store next to my shed. Its walled on 3 sides and gets a fair bit of sun without the wind.
When it starts getting colder I'll bring him in then and stick him in my dining room window. South facing with a radiator below it.

I saw something on the net about hanging your chillis on a line to dry em out.
Should this be outside or inside?

Cheers fellas:PDT_Xtremez_19:
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I usually just pick them and place them on the window sill.
 
Just a point mate, you do know that at the end of the year your plant will expire don't you? They are not perennials so you'll need new plants next year.
 
MrMasher said:
Ah bugger!
When is the best time of year to buy them then?
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if you look on line for Marshalls seed catalogue they sell plants at the ideal time by mail order but if you wait and remind next spring I'll send you half a dozen plants, be much cheaper, free in fact:PDT_Xtremez_14:
 
gemarriott said:
if you look on line for Marshalls seed catalogue they sell plants at the ideal time by mail order but if you wait and remind next spring I'll send you half a dozen plants, be much cheaper, free in fact:PDT_Xtremez_14:
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Cheers Gem.
I knew you werent all bad :PDT_Xtremez_30:
 
It's all gone wrong.

It's all gone wrong.

Still raining so ground still wet. Slug heaven, hostas like lace curtains, my spud harvest was terrible,(see earlier post) carrots black and riddled with holes (root fly) got 6 good ones from the whole plot, outdoor tomatoes green staying green and rotting on the vine. Slugs climbing up my beans and eating fecking holes in them, monstrous great caterpillars as big as my middle finger eating my fuschias (deaths head moth or suchlike), clover in the lawn, outdoor peppers all scrap, Clematis has got mildew. Still there's always next year.

Radish, lettuce and the kids sunflowers went well and the runner beans are still cropping as they are growing faster than the slugs can climb.:PDT_Xtremez_30:

3 of sand 1 of cement.
 
Anybody elses toms get blight this year?

Had a pretty w@nk crop of everything this year...about the only thing that did well was the spinach..
 
Downsizer said:
Anybody elses toms get blight this year?

Had a pretty w@nk crop of everything this year...about the only thing that did well was the spinach..
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my toms, chillie cucumbers onions and spuds were okj but the spuds were pretty low yielding. Nothing has been brilliant though nopt enough sunshine. Runner beans on a late spurt.
 
I had a great first year and lots of the produce is now squirrelled away for the winter in various sacks and boxes...trouble is being away a bit recently means the garden got a bit forgotten about and now looks like a grassy field again...Back to some spade and fork work tomorrow I fear...
 
My outdoor toms have been absolutely crap this year. They got off to a good start, then the rain set in.

They've been hammered by blight.

Still, there's alway's next year!
Never give up.
 
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