Green and pleasant land...

[mrph]

In lieu of a proper post, another update-in-the-form-of-a-list. The gardening seems to be going pretty well. This is surprising me a little bit...

Currently, the fruit and vegetable collection in the garden itself consists of:

• Broad (fava) beans ('The Sutton')
• Radishes ('Jolly' and 'Cherry Belle')
• Garlic ('Solent Wight')
• Spring Onions ('North Holland Blood Red)
• Parsnip ('Tender and True')
• Hamburg Parsley
• Rhubarb ('Champagne')
• Gooseberry ('Hinnomaki Yellow)
• Quince ('Vranja')
• Asparagus ('Mary Washington')

A few more thngs will be added later in the year - sprouts, mizuba, kailan, borlotti beans, chicory etc. I've got quite a bit of space to play with (due to lack of lawn), so it's really a question of time and effort...

...and still in pots, waiting to be planted out once they're bigger and/or a bit more space has been cleared, we have:

• Kale ('Westland Winter')
• Tomatoes ("Black Krim")
• Strawberries ('Mara De Bois'  and 'Cambridge Late Pine')
• Cucumbers ('Marketmore')
• Jerusalem Artichokes ('Fuseau')

I did also attempt some aubergines, but they didn't wish to cooperate - I didn't get a single seedling from them. :-(

Comments

[ladybirdintheuk.livejournal.com]

Last year we did whatever I bought as a small plant from homebase - small, green and not particularly hot, but nice. This year we got some peter pepper seeds from ebay (aparently they grow in the shape of willies!), and are giving them a try. We got them from the states though, so not sure how they will do in this climate.

[dakiara.livejournal.com]

Seen pictures of the Peter Pepper ones, apparently they have nice heat also for cooking with! As far as I have read they should grow fine over here under cover or indoors on a nice sunny windowsill.

Aji Limo are worth a try if you can get hold of some (though not in full sun) - a lovely citrus flavour to the chilli. We also found that Serrano grew wonderfully - I did these in 10 inch pots and got around three crops of around 40 chillies from each 5ft plant - they also stunt nicely though to a manageable size in 8 inch pots with pinching.