Allotment, Geocaching, Homebrew, Walks 'n Stuff

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300 cloves of Porcelain Garlic from this years harvest are planted finally. 150 in the garden and 150 at the allotment.

Just a  few photos of the Dorset Naga, Scotch Bonnet Red, Peach Habanero, Orange Habanaro and Chocolate Habaneros. Now inside as it is too cold for them to ripen in the greenhouse.

Just a few more but fairly common ones to pickle and dry.

Birds Eye
Jalapeño
Cayenne Long Slim

In a cold greenhouse today I have sown the following chillies

1. Dorset Naga (Morich) from Bangladesh
Simply the worlds hottest chilli. Over 1 Million SHU. Even handle the seeds with care. End of the world Atomic hot

2. Scotch Bonnet Red from Caribbean
Grows large round fruit on a compact bush. Extremely hot 300,000 SHU

3. Szechuan from China/Asia
Small thin walled 4 inch chilli matures to red. Very popular recipe ingredient. Plenty of pods from a medium sized plant. Hot .

4. Chocolate Habanero from Jamaica
Late maturing large round fruit on a short bush. Ripens green to deep chocolate brown Extremely hot. 450,000 SHU

5. Mongolian from Mongolia
Medium sized plant growing relatively small fruit. Medium heat

6. Filipino Hot from Philippine Islands
Good yielding plant shows small red fruit. Really only medium heat.

7. Peruvian Red from Peru
Quite rare. Good yielding plant shows large, thick walled, round(ish) red fruit. Could be stuffed  Hot.

8. Bermuda Hot from Bermuda
Quite rare. Thick walled fleshy, torpedo shaped fruit from a small bush. Very early to ripen. Medium heat.

9. Peach Habanero from Mexico
Good yielding small plant shows medium sized, thick fleshed, fruit. Ripen to peach colour. Good to make your own hot sauce. Extremely hot. 350,000 SHU

10. Hungarian Hot Wax
Very prolific and easy to grow.They have a crisp fleshy fruit with a mild heat.  They are normally harvested yellow to keep the plant fruiting. If left they will ripen to red

11. Hot Lemon – My favourite chilli
Very hot lemon flavoured and scented chilli pepper, suitable for drying and freezing,  Green fruits up to 5cm long mature to yellow. Plant height approx 60cm

12. Ring o Fire
A mass of long thin pointed pods which mature from green to red and are HOT! Ring of Fire is a hot cayenne type which is very quick to mature. One of the first hot chillies to ripen. It grows on an upright bush and can be picked green or red. This is a very productive chilli.

Still have about another 10 types to sow, but they can wait till next month.

Finally all the chillies are picked. With it being a poor summer again the Dorset Naga, Scotch Bonnet Red and Habanero Orange produced next to no fruit. I am going to try and overwinter all 3 and hopefully will have a better season next year.

In the photos are Bird Eye – Demon, Cayenne Long Slim, Prairie Fire, Jalapeño, Cherry Bomb and Hot Lemon. Some aren’t 100% ripe but the plants were dying so off they came.

A selection of tomatoes and chillies

Tomatoes : Alicante, Gardeners Delight, Golden Sunrise, Moneymaker, Orange Santa and Tigerella
Chillies : Bird Eye, Cayenne Long Slim, Jalapeño, Cherry Bomb and 1 Hot Lemon

Only the second time we have grown cauliflowers and the 1st was a total disaster, but this time armed with fleece to cover them, we have some lovely white caulis. Harvested today with 2 Cauliflowers we have loads and loads of broccoli, a few small courgettes, a punnet of mange tout, a few charlotte potatoes and 40 from 80 garlic.

Should have been 80 garlic, but the other 40 had rotted!!!!

Included is a quick picture update of tomatoes and chillies at home.