Hobbit Allotment!

[horticultural_hobbit]

:: excited post::

Dear Aunty barley sugar,

Your Nigel's outdoor chilli has come up a beauty. Well as beautiful as seedlings go.

Anyone ever grown chilli and pepper seeds from Real Seeds? I have a few purple babies, and they look lovely too. Just wondering whether not they would survuive outside. I have purple beauty, pretty purple rainbow chilli and their early jalepeno. So far so good.

[Two_Sheds]

I swear I hear Aunty Two_Shed ... she'd probably boot my behind for half the stuff i do and half the stuff I don't.

No, I'm not a booter or a bosser. My advice is put out there because it's what I've learned through trial and error, and I want others to be encouraged in their growing, to get it right sooner rather than later, to not have to make the mistakes that I did.

If you take my advice or not ~ I don't let it bother me. I don't have a burning need to be "right". What works for me might not work for you. (but you still can't plant pumpkins outside in February)

wondering whether not they [chillies] would survuive outside.

If we have a long, hot summer, they might do.

It's a big risk though: you may get no crop at all. They're much more reliable grown under glass.

[horticultural_hobbit]

Have grown chillies outside once. Just started to turn colour and brought them indoors. Might experiment with a few; with rest lurking indoors in the classroom.

[VirginVegGrower]

Do you have a cold frame you could grow them under on your plot or Perspex sheets?

[horticultural_hobbit]

Only the Wendy house. I need to put the cover back on, but I'm rather loathe to if there is lots of wind. That would be a cold frame. The last they worked, I covered the pots with gardening bags. Acted like mini greenhouses.

[Two_Sheds]

Have grown chillies outside once.

Me too, but they have not grown much nor fruited outside since (let me check my records) ... 2009

Summers have been too cool and wet since

[horticultural_hobbit]

Since then, exactly. When I first started the 'obbitry.

[horticultural_hobbit]

Think I am prized nanar.

I put my tatos in-all of them-four weeks ago. And nothing as of yet has come up by way of shoots.


And it could be my own fault. When they were planter they had self chitted and had these long great big tentacle. I took these off. So now feel a big numpty...

[rustylady]

They may grow more Hobbit - be patient. However next year make sure you chit them in the light. Mine have only been showing for a couple of days and they were planted around the same time as yours.

[VirginVegGrower]

Think I am prized nanar.

I put my tatos in-all of them-four weeks ago. And nothing as of yet has come up by way of shoots.


And it could be my own fault. When they were planter they had self chitted and had these long great big tentacle. I took these off. So now feel a big numpty...

Those long tentacles needed to come off. They will come up. Mine aren't showing yet either but that's a good thing, if we get frosts. Chillax

[snohare]

Think I am prized nanar

Oh well, if you are a prized banana, then at least you don't lack a peel...

they had self chitted and had these long great big tentacle. I took these off.

Yeah, I've done that before, it just delayed them. As long as they weren't too shrivelled then they should still come up - but the deeper they are, the longer they will take to appear. Also, how cold the soil is makes a difference - lighter, more sandy soils are called "quick" for this very reason, whereas heavier loam or clay soils that hold more moisture are called "slow". In springtime, you can see which fields have which by how fast the snow disappears off them.
(Well, I can - I daresay it might be difficult for urban grapes who don't look at hillsides all day long ! )
I have still only planted four potatoes.

[VirginVegGrower]

Oh well, if you are a prized banana, then at least you don't lack a peel...



Yeah, I've done that before, it just delayed them. As long as they weren't too shrivelled then they should still come up - but the deeper they are, the longer they will take to appear. Also, how cold the soil is makes a difference - lighter, more sandy soils are called "quick" for this very reason, whereas heavier loam or clay soils that hold more moisture are called "slow". In springtime, you can see which fields have which by how fast the snow disappears off them.
(Well, I can - I daresay it might be difficult for urban grapes who don't look at hillsides all day long ! )
I have still only planted four potatoes.

Are you back home yet Snohare?

[snohare]

Are you back home yet Snohare?

Yes thank you VVG, I finally stopped missing trains and caught a couple...
Spent an extra day resting in Edinburgh, was flat on my back for more than a week after I got home. Turned out I had something viral...too much time spent on YouTube... I've just about stopped coughing now. (Which when you have Crohn's Disease is really a great relief ! )
It was good meeting up at our miniGrapefest, and I really enjoyed the tour round Ryton. But none of the Grapes looked as I expected, except maybe Lottie...I always expected HeyWayne to have straw coloured hair...

[horticultural_hobbit]

Am a cheery hobbit.

Potatos starting to send shoots up. Fruit trees blooming. Tulips look pretty.

There are weeds starting to come, yes. But it's reasonably dry and things are growing.

[snohare]

Oh, I'm so glad to hear it Hobbit !
Not just because one of us has to be growing something - and it wouldn't be me, so it has to be you - but I was feart that I had killed another thread stone dead...and just when it was getting to an exciting bit !

weeds starting to come

That's your cue to start sowing/planting...
Us...we are supposedly getting snow on the tops this week (I can see old snow on the hills looking out of my window right now), everyone's complaining about how it feels cold enough for sleet in the village, but out of the wind or shade it is lovely hot sunshine ! Talk about frustration...
But my windowsills are about to fill up with seedlings. If they die, they die - but they will be around to take their chance if it comes.