I guess an update is long overdue. I've not got a whole of lot of pictures though. I think about 2/3 of my plants are already compost. I had a lot, mostly supers, that didn't set fruit, partly because they were planted too late, and partly because of the weather conditions. Anyway, I decided to make space.
I started a project for next year, this is technically on the north side of the house, but it gets sun nearly the whole day, so most of my raised bed growing will be here next year, I doubt I'll have peppers there though. I did not have a more recent pic, but some of these are double stacked now, and nearly full with compost, grass clippings, the old sail which I intend to reuse, and I've also put some chicken poop in there for the extra nutes, hopefully this should be enough. I've already planted my garlic in there, about 2 ish weeks ago, and frost will hit any day now, the garlic bed is covered with leaves from our trees.
This was my first Monkey Face harvested, and you have to look very hard to find a face. I bought this plant from a nursery, mostly for the giggles, but I actually love the flavour. I read that it has tropical or mango hints, personally I'd say papaya. Super good, perfect heat (for me). Could not be happier with this plant, made sure to save lots of seeds.
It's a bit thin walled, and goes soft because of that fast, even when it's still on the plant.
The Japeño x mango marmelade has been a massive hit, so I cooked up a second batch.
My only scotch bonnet finally showed it's true colours! I was beyond excited, as it's the only fruit I had on that plant.
I finally harvested it today, I left it a bit longer for the seeds.
Had a mini harvest today, and picked a bunch of Peruvian Purple. They are quite bitter raw, but work well in cooking. It's a nice plant with purple leaves, and it sets lots of fruit.
As frost is approaching, I harvested my two cayenne plants that were out in the green house. All but two of these were from the same plant. The second plant was a bit weird and has only produced 2-3 pepper. There is one single cayenne left on one, as it was going red, so I thought I'd save it and hope for seeds.
The green house itself is looking very empty. I used to have 18 cherry tomato plants, 30 ish cucumber plants, 15 ish pepper plants in there.
My winter projects are doing great! They have grown huge, I really should have topped them ages ago, but they started flowering and setting fruit, so I didn't have the heart to. I've got fruits on my Aji Verde, Aji Cito, Melocoton and Star of Turkey so far, with my Aleppo flowering now. My two serranos have set 5 fruits each, given that they are in tiny 0.8L pots, I'm quite happy.
Some of my supers only recently set fruits, and it was actually aphids that were behind the pollination of them. They won't have time to mature unfortunately, but I'm not that bothered by supers anymore, I'll probably still grow them next year, but more as a novelty plants.
I bought a whole bunch of air pots for next year too, so I'm excited to try that out. My first year has been a steep learning curve, and I've learnt a lot. Thanks to a lot of nice people on THP I'm not too bummed about this year, despite the weather and a lot of my plants not setting fruit. A lot of people have been really nice and hooked me up with seeds, I've learnt a lot about caring for plants. Next year will be a blast! And a lot better organised.
