Darren Beale » Gardening

The Darling Buds of, erm, July

Bealers — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 18:21:03 +0000

Here I am blatantly contradicting myself and posting within a week of saying I won’t be for a while.

Well there is one subject that I’m particularly interested in at the moment and can find the motivation to post about; my veg.

Tonight I came home and realised just how much variety we’ve got that will be soon ready to eat so I thought I’d share a few pics:

Soon to be yellow tomatoes

Spuds from one plant (I have 20+) with 4 different Chili plants in the background

My salad rows: Lettuce, Basil and Rocket

Soon to be a prize Pumpkin

Peas

Poorly weeded Red Onions

Hungarian Wax Chili

Cucumbers in the greenhouse

Baby courgettes

Gardening from scratch, almost

Bealers — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 08:42:07 +0000

I like Casey’s seed germination shortcut here.

From that I get the impression that they, like us, have been willing lots of little dots in mud to become green living things. I never realised what a stressful time it could be worrying about carrots, parsnips & onions etc. and that’s even before they are in the ground. Once that happens there is then a whole new world of pain trying to stop everything eating them.

Chilli power

Bealers — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 18:51:11 +0000

Last year, soon after we moved, I bought 2 chilli plants at a Malvern farmers market. Off the back of those 2 plants - 1x Jalepeno and 1x Scotch Bonnet - I got about 50 fruits each, yummy!

Well this year I’m having a go at growing my own. I got 50x ‘Bolivian Rainbow’ and 20x ‘Long Cayenne’ seeds from the Mrs for christmas plus as an experiment I got 1 of each of last years fruits from the freezer and planted the seeds from them - approx 8x scotch bonnet and 15 Jalepeno.

So without further ado may I present to you some tubs of mud.