Spring was coming … then it snowed!
Last week, I planted seeds for this year’s summer crops. Chillies, tomatoes, cucumbers, rock melons, and pepinos. This is a week or two earlier than last year, but they’ll go into the glasshouse until after the last frost.
For now they’re all germinating inside in an old aquarium in front of the glass sliding doors. I put the electric heating pad on overnight to keep them happy.
Last year, one of my first-time-can-I-grow-it-here crops was eggplants . The long skinny Asian variety. The seed website said “violet-pink fruit” but some of my plants had white fruit. No idea. I grew them in the glasshouse and they did OK, but a few pesky caterpillars and lots of whitefly.
This year I’m trying rock melons. I’m probably being a bit cocky but we’ll see.
I’ve planted heaps more chillies, they were really successful last year. Some of the plants were 2nd year although all the plant catalogues say they’re annuals. I’ve left them to over-winter and will see how they do. Black mould is a definite problem. The new chilli seeds this year are all hot varieties - Asian FIre, Carolina Reaper, Bhut Jolokia, Thai Hot and Habanero. That should have us panting.
But for now the snow is pretty cool.
