Gardening Progress
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Haven't been around much, I've been too busy with regular life to really post here, but I have been working on my garden.
Temperatures have skyrocketed here over the past couple of weeks; good news for my tomatoes and peppers, not so good news for my lettuces. We were still digging out last year's potatoes when they started growing again, so we lost a ton of seedlings due to needing to dig them up ( :( ).
However, what's been the real success has been our indoor pepper plants:

These are the third and fourth peppers from four plants we have, with a fifth growing. They don't seem to want to ripen on the vine, so we take them off and ripen them next to a banana. These have a little bit of history -- about 18 months ago I bought some peppers from a market stall (nothing exceptional, just ordinary mini peppers) and decided on a whim to scrape the seeds out and grow them. Last year failed thanks to a sudden cool spell, but this year keeping them indoors has done wonders for them.
We've tried one so far (a second given to a friend for her to try & seed save if she wants) and the sweetness when roasted is incredible; I'll have to try the next one raw to see how that tastes, and also make sure I save seed from this batch to sow next year.
Who knows, maybe in a couple of years I'll have excess seed to spare :P
Temperatures have skyrocketed here over the past couple of weeks; good news for my tomatoes and peppers, not so good news for my lettuces. We were still digging out last year's potatoes when they started growing again, so we lost a ton of seedlings due to needing to dig them up ( :( ).
However, what's been the real success has been our indoor pepper plants:

These are the third and fourth peppers from four plants we have, with a fifth growing. They don't seem to want to ripen on the vine, so we take them off and ripen them next to a banana. These have a little bit of history -- about 18 months ago I bought some peppers from a market stall (nothing exceptional, just ordinary mini peppers) and decided on a whim to scrape the seeds out and grow them. Last year failed thanks to a sudden cool spell, but this year keeping them indoors has done wonders for them.
We've tried one so far (a second given to a friend for her to try & seed save if she wants) and the sweetness when roasted is incredible; I'll have to try the next one raw to see how that tastes, and also make sure I save seed from this batch to sow next year.
Who knows, maybe in a couple of years I'll have excess seed to spare :P
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Date: 2013-08-02 09:26 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2013-08-03 09:10 pm (UTC)(No problem, I've been really busy too! I've been doing a lot of travelling around London recently but not been at your end — will let you know when I am, in case you're free to meet up,)
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Date: 2013-08-02 10:05 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2013-08-03 12:27 pm (UTC)I'm not doing anything special with them -- they're in reasonable-sized pots on a south-facing window (to my left as I type this, actually; they're in the room my computer is in). Good amounts of water and they've been left to their own devices pretty much. The middle plant is getting pretty tall -- the ones I'd have fruit from so far are about a foot tall, while the middle one is double their size.