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09 Aug 2009Toms Ripening & some picked, along with some Sweet Peppers Tomato Tumbling Tom Harvesting, "Sweet" Mini Red Pepper Harvesting, and Tiny Tim Tomato HarvestingSunny 21°C / 70°F
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02 Aug 2009Harvest No.12 - Chillies! Cayenne Pepper HarvestingPartly Sunny 21°C / 70°F
Nine (I think) chillies harvested from one of the cayenne plants and given to my mum. Think I need to start using chillies at a higher rate than I currently am as they’re not getting harvested enough!
Hoping some of them will riped to red – that would look pretty spectacular on the p...
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01 Aug 2009Harvest No.11 - Birthday Beans Runner Bean Dwarf Hestia Harvesting11 more runner beans harvested for part of my birthday meal :)Rainy 17°C / 63°F
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26 Jul 2009Harvest No.10 - Runner Beans! Tomato Tumbling Tom and Runner Bean Dwarf Hestia HarvestingPartly Sunny 21°C / 70°F
11 great sized tasty and fresh runner beans harvested and sliced up as part of a delicious meal.
Also, tomatoes looking pretty hot – mmmm. I can see one today JUST starting to get some colour :)
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20 Jul 2009Harvest No.9 - Pak Choi (again) and 8 Strawberries Pak Choi Harvesting and Strawberry Runners HarvestingCut down the remaining 2 pak choi. Left a few of the bottom leaves on to see if it will ‘come again’, although I don’t think pak choi does that. Today it went into a delicious Thai salad. Eight strawberries were ready to pick today – varying sizes and a few of them were ...18°C / 64°F
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19 Jul 2009Harvest No.8 (Pak Choi + Cayenne Pepper) and Beans Tied Up Pak Choi Harvesting, Cayenne Pepper Harvesting, Runner Bean Dwarf Hestia , and Chilli Pepper Potting UpCloudy 18°C / 64°F
My boyfriend cooked up a mean pad thai tonight – we decided dinner had to include some pak choi because two of the plants were trying to bolt. So two of the four pak choi plants were cut down, chopped up and are now in my belly – mmm.
The cayenne plants are fruiting spectacularly ...
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16 Jul 2009Harvest No. 7 and Salad Leaves Sprouted Strawberry Runners Harvesting and Salad Leaves - Polycress SproutingSunny 22°C / 72°F
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12 Jul 2009Four Cuttings Taken of Cape Primrose Salad Leaves - Polycress Sown and Cape PrimroseCloudy 21°C / 70°F
This little plant seems to be doing well and had a good few stems I thought I could take some cuttings from. The plan was to multiply this plant to dot around the new flat myself and my boyfriend will be moving into in August. I think it would be quite a treat to see those pretty purple flowers...
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11 Jul 2009Chilli's and Dwarf Runner Beans Setting Fruit & Harvest No.6 Strawberry Runners Harvesting, Chilli Pepper Setting Fruit, and Runner Bean Dwarf Hestia Setting FruitCloudy 21°C / 70°F
6 more tasty strawberries harvested today :)
I was getting a bit worried about the beans as they had been flowering for weeks but I couldn’t see any fruit setting. But they’ve started now – looks like they just take longer than the tomatoes, strawberries, courgettes etc. Good ...
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11 Jul 2009Courgette is Very Very Sick =( CourgetteCloudy 21°C / 70°F
It’s a miserable drizzly day here in London and to top it off, the powdery mildew on my courgette plant has now got so bad, that I’ve had to take pictures to document it on here.
I understand powdery mildew is caused by dry conditions, implying that I haven’t watered the plant e...
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