One of the side effects of being married to a vegetarian is that I eat a lot less meat than I used to. Given the health benefits that’s not necessarily a bad thing. Being veggies at home means that to avoid eating pasta everyday you need to get a little bit creative with your cooking….
Around this time every year I always get a handful of emails from readers asking me about black chillies. Why are my chillies black? What have I done wrong? Can I eat black chillies? Are my chilli plants mutant?! During the natural ripening process, it is quite common for chillies to be black in appearance…
Every year spent growing chillies seems to throw up a different problem. Too cold, too changeable, not enough sun, too much rain….there’s always something getting in the way of the perfect growing season. I suppose that’s the attraction of gardening…pitting your horticultural skills against the unpredictability of nature. This year the main problem has been…
