I had a quick sweep round the chilli house this morning before breakfast to harvest any ripe pods. Not a bad little harvest with 4 x Speedball, 1 Cayenne and 8 x Cheyenne. It’s important at this time of year to keep harvesting the pepper pods as they ripen to the plants can divert all…
As the popularity of growing chillies increases so does the bewildering number of varieties out there. One great way to experiment with growing different varieties is to save seeds from your current plants and swap seeds with fellow chilli growers. You can even experiment by trying to cross pollinate your plants and create new varieties….
Well it certainly looks like the weather has turned and autumn is well and truly with us to stay. The nights have been turning noticeably cooler (it got down to 6 degrees one night last week). In order to try and keep some of the unripe pods maturing I’ve moved quite a few of my…
Courgettes are a great vegetable to grow. Usually we end up with a massive glut of courgettes that need eating up. As well as our favorite Courgette and Parmesan Tart we often make these delicious fritters. Courgette Fritter Ingredients 2 grated courgettes/zucchini 2 grated carrots 3 chopped spring onions 1 handful of chopped parsley or…
A couple of weeks ago we picked up spinach tagliatelle from the local farm shop deli. I’m guessing the spinach is added to the pasta dough before it is rolled, cut and dried. Living with a spinach addict we thought we’d give it a go. This recipe was developed and perfected by my wife over the…
Several months back while I was dreaming of Spring to arrive i wrote about my plan to build some self watering planters to use this summer. Well, before I got round to starting the build process Father Christmas very kindly brought me an off the shelf solution….the QuadGrow… The Basic Idea The four square…
Well, after what has seemed like a very long wait it seems we are now finally seeing some consistently high temperatures and some decent sunny days now and again. I’m pleased to report that most of this years crop seem to be catching up after the slow start from the incredibly wet and cold spring….
Well, we’re still waiting for Summer to properly arrive here at Chilliking HQ and the rain is still falling. Despite all the grey clouds and rain we have had at least the temperatures haven’t been too bad (it was 17 degrees last night) and there has been some sunny spells to help get this years…
While we’ve shared before what we believe to be the perfect pizza recipe sometimes we just don’t have the time to cook these gorgeous pizzas. Not long ago we threw a party and I began experimenting with various pizza recipes that would allow me to make tasty pizza in bulk. While I know this recipe…