Harvest time, rather proud of the peppers!

[sandersj89]

OK, so this is just showing off but I had to post these pictures!

Red peppers

http://community.webshots.com/photo/176691715/176693116nrhwWF

Just the second picking from 4 plants, we should get at least 4 more pickings. Grown mainly under glass but some outside as well. They are going to be converted to soup, used in salads and preserved in oil.

Selection of toms

http://community.webshots.com/photo/176691715/176692425mRhdrx

There are a few varieties here. Picking started about 7 weeks ago. Again under glass/plastic or outside. We have oven dried loads, eaten loads, turned into soup loads and now making tomato sauce. We should be picking until first frost with a bit of luck.

Melons

http://community.webshots.com/photo/176691715/176692254jZVEtV

After loosing my "bigguns" whilst away from from home this is what I have left. I am, fingers crossed, hoping they will ripen in time.

As far as the rest of the harvest goes:

Strawbs and Raspberries are going great guns. Runner beans mean lots of freezer activity. French beans disappointing. Spring planted onion sets all lifted and drying on chicken wire. Courgettes don't want to stop. Sweetcorn feeding half of west sussex. Second crop spuds eating well, but not boiled. Swiss chard more like mountain chard! Lettuce needs re sowing but I have at last got decent spring onions. Carrots have escaped fly damage and taste yummy, though number one daughter, (nearly 3 years old), thinks they are yuck!!!!!!!!! Courgettes have had a second flush of youth, (have I mentioned them before?), still plenty of marrows out there too! Oh, and picking pounds of tomatos.

(Must nip to Iceland/Ebay/FridayAdd for another cheap freezer!)


Jerry

[sandersj89]

[Mrs Ava]

Beeeeeeeee-utiful peppers.  You sure you haven't painted green ones with red nail varnish??

Can't see the toms or melons, but then we are having BIG computer problems tonite.

[Pixie]

Hi Jerry

What fab peppers can you remember which type they are? I'm not very pepper educated so any info welcome.

Did you find that they grew just as easy outside? I had a couple donated to me and they haven't but when I moved them inside they flowered.

Sam

[sandersj89]

Sam

Sorry, for the life of me I can't remember the variety. One failing I aim to sort out for next year is keeping a proper garden diary. This will be spreadsheet based I suspect.

As to outside or inside, the inside ones do fair better and ripen earlier. They also carry more flowers and fruit as they prefer the higher temperature and humidity.

HTH

Jerry

[Pixie]

Never mind Jerry

They just looked so lovely. I think for the time being I will let mine stay on the window sill!

Sam

[aquilegia]

all looks fantastic, but those peppers are amazing!

[tim]

Nice work, Jerry - do the peppers have any heat? = Tim

[ina]

Great harvest, great pictures.
Next year I'll try red peppers too, they should be sweeter than the green ones (which I like too).
So many tomatoes.

If you don't mind, why don't you post some pictures of the places where you grow all that beautiful stuff?

[sandersj89]

Tim,

No heat since the last frost. The peppers were sown under glass in March. Heat from fan heater. Sown in trays and then potted on when large enough to handle.

Heat used at night until frosts were a thing of the past. Most of the plants have stayed in my mail glass house, 8 by 6, in large plastic pots. Grown in basket compost with about 3 inches of well rotted manure in the bottom of the pot.

Ina

If you look at my main webshots site you will see pictures of my main garden, veg garden, greenhouses and new allotment started in this year.

HTH

Jerry

[tim]

All good to know but - actually - I meant are they hot??

They have that sort of look. = Tim

[sandersj89]

Tim,

Sorry. Wrong end of the stick!

Not, they are sweet peppers, had some last night simply baked in a bit of olive oil. Very nice.

Jerry

[GardnerJ]

wow they are amazing, so are the toms! Bet you can't wait fot the melons!?
Jemma x