One of the cats caught a mole, not sure which cat but I can take a good guess it was Dexter. After about 15 mins of hunting, we managed to catch it. He was trying to do his own version of “The Great Escape” but there is no way I wanted a mole loose in the garden.
Mr Mole
Finally got round to putting the beans and sweetcorn in.
Chitted the sweetcorn “Sweet Nugget” for 24 hours in 2 layers of damp paper towels, placed inside a sandwich box and put ontop of the boiler. Put these into the paper pots made yesterday and had 42 corn sown.
Also sown today
Climbing French Bean – “Blue Lake”
Runner Bean – Streamline
Runner Bean – White Lady
Pumpkin – Howden
Running out of greenhouse space now…
Decided it was time for some more seed sowing.
Squash we have
Cauliflower – F1 Candid Dream
Leeks – F1 Carlton
Brussel Sprout – Mezzo Nano
Broccoli – “Green sprouting Calabrese”
Saturday the allotment had another good rotavate in preparation for the planting in the next few weeks. Also my wife made a cracking pond next to the shed area.
Allotment Pond
Sunday was the turn of the garden which was looking rather untidy. Cleaned out the coldframe and planted the following salad in there
Tom Thumb Lettuce, COS Lettuce, Rocket and Wild Rocket
Sown in cells and are now in the greenhouse.
Broad Bean – Aguaduice -20
Board Bean – Witkem Manita – 48
Plus for good measure sown some Basil and is now in the kitchen.
Well decided today to sow the chilies and tomatoes. 13 types of Chilli and 6 tomato. The plan was to only sow 3 or 4 type of chilli but something went wrong somewhere 
Bird Eye – Demon
A fantastic, extremely hot, dwarf variety that produces a prolific yield. The flowers and upward pointing fruits start green and turn bright red and are produced throughout the season. These are ideally suited to a windowsill or patio containers and make equally attractive ornamental plants
Cayenne Long Slim
Dark green, long fruit maturing to red. Slim 6” x 3/4” pointed and wrinkled. Strong, spreading plant, 20-24” tall. Great for processing & drying. 70-75 days.
Cayenne Hot
Habanero Orange
Plant produces heavy yields of 40mm long by 30mm wide wrinkled hot peppers. Peppers are extremely hot and turn from green to orange when mature. Plant has green stems, green leaves, and white flowers.
Scotch Bonnet Red
Closely related to the Habaneros, Scotch Bonnets are also fabulously hot. This red hot, fruity, Scotch Bonnet is an essential ingredient in Caribbean recipes. Needs a long warm growing season for fruit to fully ripen to red – Like we will get that in the UK!!
Prairie Fire
This is a compact round bush with fiery hot small chillies which mature from yellow to red. Ideal as a small pot plant. This is probably the quickest growing of the hot chillies we sell and lots of people keep them growing happily through the winter in their kitchen window.
Jalapeño
Chilli Pepper Jalapeno, Standard Jalapeno type, 3″ fruits having thick walls and continuous fruit setting, used for hot pepper eating contests in the USA. Fruits ripen from green to red. A very hot pepper. Used on nachos and chopped in Mexican sauces giving them an excellent flavour.
Cherry Bomb
This is a hugely popular, versatile chilli and very easy to grow too. A bush of beautiful red 5cm very fleshy fruits which mature in around 60 days from potting on. They can be stuffed with cheese and baked, or used for cooking. They are similar in heat to Jalapenos (around 6000 scoville units).
Hot Lemon
Very hot lemon flavoured and scented chili pepper, suitable for drying and freezing, Green fruits up to 5cm long mature to yellow. Plant height approx 60cm
Bolivian Rainbow
Tear-drop shaped peppers turn from purple to yellow to orange to red with all colours present on the plant at the same time. Great container plant. Very prolific. (Capsicum annuum). 75 days to ripen. Heirloom variety. Grown in Bolivia. Ever bearing, 2-3 foot plants have purple foliage and flowers and yield tiny, pointed 1 inch fruits.
Bhut Jolokia
Bhut Jolokia seeds the ‘Blistering Hot’ Indian Chilli Pepper that originates in the area of Assam, India. Tested by the Chile Pepper Institute in Mexico (our source for one of the hottest peppers in the world) the origin of the seed they used was from Bih Jolokia bred in Assam India.
Up to 1,001,304 Scoville Units
Dorset Naga
Dorset Naga measuring about 1,000,000 Scoville Heat Units, is one of the hottest chillies in the world. Its scorching heat is combined with a distinctive fruity aroma makes it a truly exceptional chilli.
Congo Black – 1 seed from last year!
Congo Black is a very sharp Habanero / Scotch Bonnet variety from the Caribbean. Very prolific medium-sized plants.
Alicante
Heavy-cropping Money maker type with an excellent flavour.A classic, older variety.
Gardeners Delight
An exceptionally sweet and delicious outdoor cherry tomato. Each bite sized fruit is packed full of old fashioned true tomato taste.
Golden Sunrise
Medium sized, early, sweet yellow fruits with a distinctive flavour
Moneymaker
Well known for reliably producing heavy crops. Large trusses of medium-sized fruit. Ideal for greenhouse or outdoor growing
Orange Santa
A spectacular dense, orange-skinned, cherry plum with a high sugar content and a distinctive flavour when fully rip
Tigerella
Very distinctive variety having red fruits with orange-yellow stripes. Fine flavour and heavy yielding
Spent all morning scrubbing the Greenhouse clean. Amazing how much “gunk” was on the glass and amazing how it has taken me 3 years to actually clean it – hmm not really that amazing since I am a lazy sod…..
Brought this one in the house once Autumn set in and it produced a fair few chillies, I was rather impressed
Habenaro Orange
