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Planted Wild Rocket & Fragrant Lavender
Ok, so I am fed up with squishing the green flys on my chilli's and I have read that they do not like lavender, which by chance is one of my favourite plants, as I always remember my nan Edna used to love it!
So I have planted some lavender seeds in the heated propogator, but not expecting to see much for a while, as it says they take up to 30 days.
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Just to see what happens, I have also planted some Wild Rocket seeds in the other half of it.
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2011 - The Beginnings
My First Year of Planting got off to a great start.
I planted:
Tomatos
Cayenne Chilli's
Sweet Pea's
It was just a bit of fun to start with, got a few free packets of seeds from suttons through the post and though hay lets plant these and see what happens.
Altogeather I had 14 tomato plants (7 in each long pot) which produced around 400 tomatos in total using just tomatorite.
My chilli's I had 4 Cayenne chilli plants that have produced around 50 chilli's each over last season. (grown indoors)
My peas were not great, only got about half a portion of peas off them so do not think I will bother with them again.
But hay that was last year, and a lot of things I have learned.
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 | 2012-01-01 11:00:00
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OverWintering Chilli's
As I had such good Cayenne production last year I thought I would over winter them this year.
all was going well, and they stopped producing chilli's for about 3 days.. haha
They are now starting to flower again, some of which turning into fresh new chilli's. so we shall see if they every stop producing, but from my point of view, hopefully not.
Oh and I did trim them back to about 20cm once the last chilli was red.
With soo many chilli's last year, I have dried some & frozen loads
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 | 2012-01-02 09:00:00
2012 - Fresh Beginnings
So 2012 is upon us, and time to get planting!
I have already planted some shallots in the spare room, and they are growing already!!!
I purchased a "Sankey 38 cm Premier Growarm 100" heated propagator and got straight to planting.
Chilli:
Twilight (4 seeds)
Orange Habanero (4 seeds)
Iranian Red (4 seeds)
Gusto Purple (4 seeds)
Scotch Bonnet (2 seeds)
Tomato:
Tomato F1 Sweet n Neat (2 seeds)
2012-01-07 16:00:00
[Day 3] First Breaking Of the Soil
Well my propergaor is doing its job, as today the first Tomato seedling popped its head through the soil to say hello!
was hoping for the chilli's first, but can't be picky. So I have now opened the vent on the top of the propogator, and once the plant is stating to look stronger, I will remove it.
2012-01-10 19:00:00
[Day 5] Is The First Chilli About to rise?
Checked again tonight and it looks like the first scotch bonnet is about to break through the soil and show its self!
Also 3 of the Orange Habanero's have sprouted through the surface!
Have now taken the lid off the propagator as a lot of the plants are breaking through the surface, but still keeping it on heat!
2012-01-12 19:00:00
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[Day 10] Seedlings doing good.
So the seedlings are off the heat now and are doing really well.
The Iranian Red's have not bothered to show them selves, but they were self saved by someone else. so could be duds.
I have also taken my Maris Piper seed potatos out of their bag they came in to let them chit...
Never grown potatoes before, so should be interesting.
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 | 2012-01-17 19:00:00
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[Day 14] Replanting the Tomatoes
Well the overwintered chilli plant is doing really well and is producing chilli's again. first few in the photo.
I have now transplanted the Tomato plant out of the propogator and into its own pot as it is looking nice and healthy. |
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[Day 16] Replanting the Chilli's
Now most of the chilli plants are starting to look a lot stronger and it is getting a little cramped in the tray.
I have transplanted the best looking ones into their own pots and the others into the growing tray.
All seem happy with the move, and most of them had some nice roots below them so everything looking good.
Two of the Orange Habanero's were not looking as healthy as the others, so we will see how they do. |
 | 2012-01-23 18:00:00
Planted Wild Rocket & Fragrant Lavender
Ok, so I am fed up with squishing the green flys on my chilli's and I have read that they do not like lavender, which by chance is one of my favourite plants, as I always remember my nan Edna used to love it!
So I have planted some lavender seeds in the heated propogator, but not expecting to see much for a while, as it says they take up to 30 days.
Just to see what happens, I have also planted some Wild Rocket seeds in the other half of it.
I have also moved some of the best looking potatoes into egg boxes, to help them Chit.
2012-01-28 13:00:00
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[Day 44] Further Chilli's Replanted
The chilli plants are coming along nice and strong, so I have now re-planted the rest of them in their individule pots, with only a few left in the small pots.
The green fly seem to like the new plants as the little things we covered.
so, squish squish squish they went!
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