Week 21 Growth Report
September 2, 2007
Week 21 02.09.07 – This week I will mostly be growing…
- Sweet Baby Peppers Sown 31.03.07 have been very slow growing this year but as you can see from the photo growth is finally speeding up.
- Mini Leeks (8 weeks growth),
- Autumn King 2 Carrots (8 weeks growth)
- Chicory (8 weeks growth)
- Turnip ‘Atlantic’ (1 weeks growth)
- Pak Choi ‘Riko F1′ (1 weeks growth)
- Lambs Lettuce ‘Jade’ (1 weeks growth)
- Radish ‘French Breakfast’ intercropped with the chicory (1 weeks growth),
- Runner Beans ‘Red Rum and White Lady’ (still harvesting daily – Week 17 growth),
- Tomato ‘Roma, Tornado and yellow bell’ (still harvesting every few days)
- Xmas Potatoes ‘ Maris Peer’ (1 weeks growth in tubs).
Please click here to see a slideshow of the progress of my seedlings mentioned in the list above.
The pictures below show my 3 back garden vegetable plots on 02.09.07 Week 21.
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mostlyiwillbegrowing | September 11, 2007 at 12:34 pm
Hi Viki, This is the first time I have grown peppers and I am willing them to turn another colour but green as well. They have been very slow and I nearly gave up recently from them producing anything.
Its encouraging to hear yours are turning red, hopefuly its not much longer for mine!
As for your chilli’s I thinks its a matter of time as well. I was reading this website http://www.guidesign.com/george/chilis.htm and it says if you want to have the heat and flavour the chilli must ripen on the plant even if it doesn’t ripen until xmas. Its sugests putting them on a windowsill, maybe this is somethine you can do when the weather gets bad or get one of those mini greenhouses the plastic overed ones.
Good luck with your chilii’s and peppers.
Regards
Tracey
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vicki | September 11, 2007 at 1:28 pm
hi there it was lovely to see your peppers, mine are just turning red which is what i want, as a first time grower i am treating them like my babies and am really proud of them, i still have some very tiny ones coming through and quite a lot of flowers and am not too sure where to put them when the weather gets bad, i also have an awful lot of green chillis and am desperate for them to ripen but as a novice am unsure what to do can you advise me???
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vicki | September 11, 2007 at 2:04 pm
thanks for your reply its nice to know there isnt just me waiting for red peppers and chillies, i today have 1red pepper the rest green, i have also grown some sweet banana peppers which are just turnintg a lovely orange colour, so i guess its just a waiting game for the chillies to turn red!!! god i hate waiting, probably not a good trait in a gardener hey!!!
can i also ask is it too late to start growing potatoes? and if not which do you sugest
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mostlyiwillbegrowing | September 11, 2007 at 10:39 pm
The sweet banana peppers sound different, I have never heard of them before, do you have their variety? or where you bought the seed from?
As for potatoes no its not too late but they need to go in as soon as possible whilst it is still warm to get them growing either in pots or the ground. The only problem is that most of the tuber suppliers delivered the xmas (late cropping) potatoes last month so it might be hard to find some still available. Varieties include carlingford, charlotte and I’m growing maris peer.
Otherwise you may have to wait until Oct-Nov to order potatoes for January.
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vicki | September 12, 2007 at 7:15 am
not sure what variety the peppers are will check later for you bought them because they looked really different!!!thanks for the potato advise will get onto it straight away.
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vicki | September 12, 2007 at 1:49 pm
as promised the sweet banana peppers are thompson and morgan seeds, pepper sweet big banana f1, and they really do grow long like a banana!!!
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skrubtudsen | September 25, 2007 at 7:27 pm
I like this blog. Living in Denmark, I’ve found some varieties of sweet pepper turning red in august, out in the ground. I sow indoor in first week of march. I keep them growing by potting with 2-3 weeks intervals. In may they go out in the greenhouse and between 5. and 23. june I transplant in to the garden, when the weather is warm for a few days. I tie them to a support, otherwise they will blow apart in summerwinds. All the way the need water and fertiliser. But then harvest start in early august.
Before the first frost in mid october, I pick the remaining peppers, they keep well in the fridge. The smaller green ones I preserve in a bit of salt, and keep in a jar in the fridge.