New Seeds
Posted: Sun 2 September, 2007 Filed under: Domestic, Green Garden, House Work 1 Comment »We’re already getting organised for next year when it comes to the veg garden, greenhouse, and the decision about getting chickens.
Last week I went to the Real Seed Company, and ordered (among other things) some chocolate brown sweet peppers and some fluorescent purple chilli peppers. They should both be interesting – this year we’ve had massive success with normal chillis, and did OK on the bell peppers, although they weren’t great, and had a nasty reaction to sporadic watering.
Over the winter, we’re going to be making some additions and alterations to the greenhouse we inherited from the previous owners. It needs new shading put up, the automatic vent openers need replacing, and all that kind of general maintenance guff. Should be fun.
And yes, we’re even thinking of getting some chickens. It won’t be ’til Spring now, but that gives us some time to do some planning, get things in place, and all that kind of thing. We got a couple of books this week, so it should be interesting to see how things go.
We grew the chocolate peppers from the Real Seed Company this year, and they were fab. We’ve had dozens of nice fruits off them, and they are still going strong. Since they are true breeding varieties, we’re saving some of the seeds to use again next year.