-
Recent Posts
Archives
- March 2019 (2)
- February 2019 (1)
- January 2019 (1)
- December 2018 (1)
- October 2018 (1)
- September 2018 (4)
- August 2018 (2)
- July 2018 (2)
- June 2018 (2)
- May 2018 (3)
- April 2018 (3)
- March 2018 (1)
- February 2018 (2)
- January 2018 (4)
- December 2017 (1)
- November 2017 (2)
- August 2017 (1)
- July 2017 (1)
- June 2017 (2)
- May 2017 (2)
- April 2017 (3)
- January 2017 (2)
- December 2016 (1)
- November 2016 (3)
- October 2016 (1)
- August 2016 (3)
- July 2016 (1)
- May 2016 (3)
- April 2016 (3)
- March 2016 (4)
- February 2016 (3)
- January 2016 (1)
- December 2015 (3)
- November 2015 (1)
- September 2015 (2)
- August 2015 (4)
- June 2015 (2)
- May 2015 (4)
- April 2015 (3)
- March 2015 (2)
- February 2015 (2)
- January 2015 (1)
- October 2014 (1)
- May 2014 (2)
- April 2014 (2)
- March 2014 (1)
- February 2014 (2)
- January 2014 (3)
- December 2013 (1)
- November 2013 (8)
- October 2013 (2)
- September 2013 (1)
- August 2013 (1)
- July 2013 (4)
- June 2013 (2)
- May 2013 (1)
- April 2013 (1)
- March 2013 (1)
- February 2013 (3)
- January 2013 (3)
- December 2012 (2)
- November 2012 (2)
- October 2012 (2)
- September 2012 (1)
- August 2012 (3)
- July 2012 (4)
- June 2012 (3)
- May 2012 (6)
- April 2012 (4)
Categories
Meta
Tag Archives: chillis
Pre-season training
We are into March. The days are lengthening. The February seeds have germinated and are looking sprightly: the race to produce those early tomatoes has started and the chillis are up too. We need to make sure they are in … Continue reading
Posted in Gardening Times
Tagged ailsa craig, basil, bird bath, broad beans, chillis, frogs, frogspawn, greenhouse, hurst greenshaft, leeks, Nicotiana, peas, sweet million, tomatoes
Leave a comment
Early Birds Seeds
Winter arrived at the end of January with the snow and frost, but before it did, I had managed to plant some extra irises and a Delphinium from the Old Place in the herbaceous border in the back garden. I … Continue reading
Posted in Gardening Times
Tagged aquilegia, chillis, hesperis, iris, irises, Korean Mint, pennard plants, pipiche, Potato Day, Real Seeds, sarpo mira, Shipwrecked
Leave a comment
Late news from late summer
It was a wet end to the summer and I never really got the garden under the level of control I might in other years have demanded. I wrote this piece back in October, before a lot of other stuff … Continue reading
Posted in Gardening Times
Tagged chillis, Garden, gardening, green peppers, potatoes, purple sprouting, shallots, squashes, tomatoes
1 Comment
One Month On
It’s been a month since I put finger to keyboard (or for some I know it would be thumbs to keyboard). It is an interesting comparison to see how stuff has panned out in the past 30 days. A month … Continue reading
Posted in Gardening Times
Tagged Cabbages, chillis, cosmos, courgettes, curly kale, cut flowers, Elephant garlic, foxgloves, garlic, kale, new potatoes, shallots, sweet peas, tomatoes
Leave a comment
End of Term report
It’s that time of the year again when the evening chill sharpens, the leaves start to turn and we spend a fruitless Sunday morning trying to purchase Glastonbury tickets. And it has been months since I delivered any sort of … Continue reading
New Term
And so here’s the summer, and what have we done? Another Easter over and a new term begun… Easter is an exciting time of year, with the greenhouse beginning to burst at the seams with seed trays which themselves start … Continue reading
Posted in Gardening Times
Tagged baileyhill bookshop, basil cabbages, brokali, cape daisy, chillis, Commonfarmflowers, courgettes, leeks, marogold, Nicotiana, peas, potatoes, purple sprouting, rudbeckia, zinnias
1 Comment
Looking to spring
Back from half term we have had some frosts in Somerset which has knocked everything a little. I actually brought my sweet peas in from the greenhouse just in case they get nipped by the frost. The temperatures did not … Continue reading
Posted in Gardening Times
Tagged aubergines, chillis, gardeners delight, gardeners world, monty don, sweet peas, tomatoes
Leave a comment
