Popped up a bird box a few months ago- today I managed to take this video of some bluetits coming in and out on my phone.
I can hear the chicks chirping through the wall of the house. I'm just completely thrilled!
Just a casual humble brag about the handful of radishes I pulled today.
Golf ball for scale.
(Not sure why I only got one white radish this time but I guess that's the risk you take when you buy a mixed variety packet and only plant 1/16th of it)
I found this today outside the local church. It was on a huge Bush maybe 8ft tall and 10ft wide.
Does anyone know what variety this might be? The flowers were about the size of a toddlers head. The buds were a deep orangy red streaked with a bright mustard yellow.
Brought my pepper plants out for a spot of- well I hesitate to say sunshine since it's been a rather overcast day.
Came out a few hours later and noticed one of my chillis looks a little yellowed.
I usually fertilise once a week but a few days ago I added a mixture of eggshells and coffee grounds to the top of the soil as well as some straw to help deter pests. Now I'm worried I've over fertilised due to this as the tip of the leaf was very crispy and fell off when I touched it. It wasnt like this yesterday.
If it is fertilizer burn how do I fix it?
I've been knitting this tea cosy over the last week and I suddenly realised I'd dropped a stitch in the early portion of the peice. I didnt want to go back and redo it so I tried to repair it with a crochet hook and a needle. It's the 4th kinda tulip shaped bit along.
Is it obvious that I dropped the stitch or am I overthinking things? (Included front and back pics)
I personally have always loved the appearance of the tiny peppers like basket of fire and birds eye.
I've seen pictures of huge Tabasco plants covered in hundreds of tiny fruits which stand out against the green leaves like gorgeous little decorations on a Christmas tree.
The thing is that I'm not really sure what else is out there that has such gorgeous little prolific pods. Are there any that are less hot? Any that are easy to grow for a beginner? Any that are purple or orange?
So- I've come to ask, what is your favourite small chilli to grow and why? What are some gorgeous or intresting varieties I can look out for?
Hello everyone, I've come here to ask one simple question.
How do you all save and dry your seeds for the next year?
I know about the fermentation method- I know about drying em without the membrane and drying em.with the membrane- but are there any I've missed?
Any interesting or specific methods you use to keep or dry or preserve your seeds?
I'm intending to run a small experiment to see which one suits me best and is most effective so please be specific if you use any particular products etc.
(Sorry about the title- word association)
Gotta love the great british weather- ey?
This morning I looked outside and the sun was out, so I was like yay- garden time and brought my chilli plants out for some direct sunlight.
Just now it started pouring with rain and I got completely soaked to the bone moving my seedlings back in. (Because it was meant to be a thunderstorm and I was worried that there might be strong winds and heavier rain coming)
As soon as I got done and came inside to dry off- the sun reappeared like it was laughing at me, the sod.
These spring showers are going to drive me up the walls.
Anyways- hers a pic of my plants all tucked back away for the night.
(If anyone knows what on earth keeps taking one single bite out of my chillies leaves and not showing its face could you please let me know?)
I wasnt sure if I was going to post this or not because I'm quite frankly devastated but i went away for a couple if days and now a majority of my seedlings are dead.
I left to attend some classes and put my mother incharge of looking after my seedlings of various varieties including my pepper seedlings.
A little batch of cayennes the first I've ever grown. I had 15 of them that had just pushed out their true leaves.
Unfortunately where I live it's been windy- the wind caught the side if my greenhouse and proceeded to knock all of the items on my top shelf all over the floor.
My parents tried to pick everything up but theres been some pretty bad damage to my seedlings.
Out of 15 cayenne pepper seedlings I now only have 4 that seem to be recovering from.the situation- all of the others came away from their roots and started rotting.
I discovered this for the first time when I came back this afternoon , my parents hid it from me, and went in to examine the damage more closely since my parents shoved all the seedlings that were green in the same pot.
This is aweful and I feel so terrible. I never imagined this would happen since the greenhouse is bolstered on two sides by a building and even cable tied to it. I didnt think it could shake.
I was so excited and now I'm just so- dissapointed? They might not have been huge but they were healthy and growing and now most of them are gone.
It just feels so empty....
Do all purple peppers/chillies ripen to red? I cant seem to find a variety that doesnt.
I've just got to ask how on earth everyone else manages to harden off their tomatos without being in complete and utter terror for their existence.
I'm beginning to harden off some plants at various stages because I want to get them in more soil and they're trying to flower too early and I came out to put them in and all their leaves slumped down noticeably
Do I keep at it and just hope that things go well? Should i fertilise them with Hope's theyll perk up and withstand it all better?
It's my first time properly hardening off instead of just sticking them out after the last frost and hoping for the best.
It's very stressful.
I know its a jumping spider but I'm not sure what sort- was found in southern england.