New years day, my traditional day for starting the Chillies for the new season. A little change this year however as we have so many frozen, dried, and powdered hot chillies still unused from previous years that this year we are going to mainly grow sweet peppers.
Last year we tried Thor F1 sweet peppers, they grew really well in the ground inside the poly-tunnel and produced a good amount of green sweet peppers, but unfortunately they didn’t ripen to red. This year we will have another go but this time in the greenhouse and planted in my 10 litre chilli pots.
We bought 2 packs of seeds, 7 seeds in each (£5.10), had a nice surprise as when I opened the second packet of seeds there where lots of extra seeds inside, 20 in fact. So I now have 27 pots planted up with a single seed in each in the propagators.
Also sowed the Tomato “Mountain Magic F1” (£2.85) but only got the advertised 6 seeds in the pack.
I wasn’t going to grow any hot peppers this year, but had a little bit of space left in the propagators, enough for three more small pots. So after a look though my saved seeds from other years sowed multiple seeds in a single pot of Havana Gold saved 2019, a single pot with Scotch Bonnets (Yellow) saved 2013, and Ancho saved from 2014. I’m not expecting much from these, but if I get a single plant from each that would be a nice bonus for the year.
So 2021 growing season has now off to a start.
The Cabin Brewery and Smoke House, Allotment plot 119 